The paneling will be nailed directly to these furring strips.
How to start 3 4 tongue and grove siding.
Insert a 1 2 inch spacer between the board and starting edge.
Carefully slice the back part of the groove of your replacement board but leave the front part of the groove attached.
This is part 1 of a 3 part series.
How to install tongue and groove siding.
Nails should penetrate 1 1 4 inch into solid wood behind the siding.
In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the grove edges facing downwards to assure a weather tight wall.
Figure 3 tongue and groove vertical siding lapped corner.
Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece.
Installing tongue and groove walls can be a real workout.
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.
Start at a far wall for vertical boards and at the floor for horizontal boards.
Nails must penetrate 1 1 4 inches into solid wood.
This is called blind nailing the only location that we installed fasteners in the face of the.
Nail up the first panel at a corner of the room with the tongue side facing out.
Run a bead of construction adhesive down the back of.
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.
The corner conditions both exterior and interior are most easily handled by lapping boards.
Tongue and groove siding can be installed horizontally or vertically.
Wide can be blind nailed with one casing nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue.
2 you have to seat the tongues and grooves together and they don t always want to marry.
The tongue section of the board should be at the top with the groove section at the bottom.
1 you re usually working over your head.
You will have to cut the board lengthwise as shown in figure 3 in order for it to fit.
Siding up to 6 in.
If the siding is up to 6 inches wide it can be nailed with one siding nail per bearing but siding any wider should use two nails per bearing.
You can use your circular saw set to the depth of just the back part of the groove.
We used 1 1 4 long 1 4 galvanized staples to install this cedar.
Vertical tongue and grove siding corners.
3 tongue and groove isn t always flat so you have to force the boards together to get them seated.