How To Start 3 4 Tongue And Grove Siding

Figure 3 tongue and groove vertical siding lapped corner.

How to start 3 4 tongue and grove siding.

You can use your circular saw set to the depth of just the back part of the groove. The paneling will be nailed directly to these furring strips. Nail up the first panel at a corner of the room with the tongue side facing out. We used 1 1 4 long 1 4 galvanized staples to install this cedar.

2 you have to seat the tongues and grooves together and they don t always want to marry. Nails should penetrate 1 1 4 inch into solid wood behind the siding. 3 tongue and groove isn t always flat so you have to force the boards together to get them seated. Tongue and groove siding can be installed horizontally or vertically.

Insert your new board s tongue into your old board s groove and lay the new board s front groove over the other old board s tongue. 1 you re usually working over your head. Wide can be blind nailed with one casing nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue. The corner conditions both exterior and interior are most easily handled by lapping boards.

Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece. Siding up to 6 in. To install tongue and groove paneling vertically begin by nailing 1 by 3 furring strips horizontally either directly to the wall studs on a new wall or over the drywall on a finished wall. Run a bead of construction adhesive down the back of.

The tongue section of the board should be at the top with the groove section at the bottom. In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the groove edges facing downwards. You will have to cut the board lengthwise as shown in figure 3 in order for it to fit. Insert a 1 2 inch spacer between the board and starting edge.

In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the grove edges facing downwards to assure a weather tight wall. This is called blind nailing the only location that we installed fasteners in the face of the. This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Siding up to 6 inches wide can be blind nailed with one siding nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue.

How to install tongue and groove siding. The stales are installed every 12 into the tongue of the board and are covered and hidden by the next boards groove is installed. Nails must penetrate 1 1 4 inches into solid wood. Carefully slice the back part of the groove of your replacement board but leave the front part of the groove attached.

Start at a far wall for vertical boards and at the floor for horizontal boards.