DIY VERTICAL wood siding INSTALL with a DRAINAGE plane. A Contractor Explains.

Here is my best practices for wood siding installation. Also I cover why a drainage plane matters. And How to install verticle wood siding on your house.

#Wood_Siding #Vertical_Siding #Drainage_Plane #Tar_Paper

Here are a few of the tools and materials we used on this build that I recommend in each category, most with affiliate links:
1. Caulk
PL Window, siding, and door sealant

This stuff is hard to deal with. You have to be very careful when you apply it. But it lasts a super long time! Mineral spirits clean-up.
I also like Kelly Moore Elastomeric Caulk. It is much easier to work with and lasts a long time. Sorry, no link for that one.

2. Framing and Siding Nailers
Hitachi Framing Nailer

My model is a little older than this one. But the Hitachi nailer has been the industry standard for years. They sell a siding attachment to the framing head. I Don't use a separate siding nailer. Also, we use trim screws on the ends of our window and door trim to minimize wood cracking.

How to install siding and drainage plane. This is a vertical siding setup.

Most people don't realize that the siding is not what protects the house from loss, it's actually the drainage plane behind it. So this is tar paper the felt tar paper and what we've done is we used two layers of pounds of L and the reason that we'll use to penetrate through the drainage plane. It makes a potential place where you can leave with a great thing.

About the felt paper is that it kind of seals around them that way better than a tie back or another type of fabric type of drainage house wrap. So that's why our preferred method is to use this tar paper and the other thing I'd like to say about the drainage plane is that way to think about it when you're sealing your house from the weather is you think about this plane right here as the surface that you're sealing like a boat.

So you can't seal it completely like a boat the tar paper works really great because when it gets wet it swells and it lets it stops the water from going in and then when it dries out it'll let the moist air go out of the house. So that's why you couldn't wrap the house in plastic because it would mold from the inside out but while you have this drainage plane when you're building if you think about sealing this up and you think about how waterworks. So most people think about water as just going downwards so water will go down but it also has capillary action so it'll stick to itself.

For example, let's say you got a water droplet here and it'll go horizontally, and then if it's squeezed between two things and a bunch of water backs up behind it. It'll actually push up, so you always want to think about water when you're creating your drainage plane, and again remember that this is what's keeping the house protected.

The main function of the siding is to make your house beautiful and to protect the drainage plan behind it. So if you notice here we've got this little box where we're going to have an exterior outlet and we've cocked around the top and the sides and we put this little fern strip on here. So why did we do that we did that because when the water comes down the drainage plane if we just left this open then the water would hit that and then go behind it? So every window every opening that we have on the house we've done the same thing. We don't do the bottom because water is going to push down. It's going to drain out so if any water half is again where we want to let it go out. So I think that's enough about the drainage plane itself.

The next thing I want to bring your attention to is this design that we've created for vertical siding. So if you look over here you'll see that this is a shiplap siding. Now, ship black siding is

So what we did was we took these tee burning strips and we lined them up on all of the studs and nailed them off on the studs. And they're flipped backward so behind here you can see if you get close up that there are the little grooves that you'll see in a tee signing so the water when it comes down will hit this plane and then can travel sideways go through the hole and keep going.

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[thepenguin]

All my questions about how to do vertical siding answered in such a short video... genius

[huejanus]

Tarpaper is a great choice, already passed the test of time.

[beardg]

As a manufacturer and seller of both Tar paper and synthetic building wraps, we personally choose tar paper any day. It out performs synthetic wrap and is made of 100% recycled materials right here in the USA!

[boatdesigner]

I have a house full of rotted 1x8 t&g red cedar because it was nailed directly to the tar paper. I strongly agree with this method.

[BigMikesHooptyBarn]

Thanks for the tip on using the T-111 for the girds.birds. I'm planning on cutting lumber on my bandsaw mill for board and batten siding for my farm house and was just looking for tips before I get started.

[jamesbaker]

many homes built in the 40s and 50s used tar paper as a wrap worked very well

[istvanmeissler]

Thank you for taking the time to explain (so well) about proper siding installation.

[jimmys]

im glad I saw this video I planned on putting T 1-11 on my cabin which is wrapped with felt paper.i was going to shoot the 1-11 right over it without the sleepers you put on the structure.Such a good idea.

[timothyhaid]

Smart... Good to see someone shouting the truth from the rooftops. Good job and thanks for sharing. That house will certainly last 100 plus years.

[jamess]

Super straight forward, great explanation for siding, learned a lot thank you!

[erichall]

absolute best way on you tube. Thanks for how it should be done.

[squeekhobby]

Great explanation. I prefer horizontal layout so that we will have vertical purloins. Job well done

[imnotgoodaka.notgood]

Moisture guard, "ice guard", is another great option. It will actually seal around all penetrations such as nails and or staples. I used it on my sisters 100yr old house she bought 15yrs later roof siding everything looks great and holding up nicely. I recommend it.

[robbobcat]

i like your ideas on water drainage ....But what about Bugs and other small critters? looks like your building them a nice place to live

[fuadrahaman]

Very informative on water-proofing, and a beautiful shiplap siding home.

[jamsocrane]

great job, Thanks. Just one thing I learnt tonight In my great carpentry book on this topic. If you nail your furring strips on a 45 angle, It helps with ventalation and drainage.

[joshuasmith]

Man, that looks great! And seems like something the average Joe could pull off.

[ttfweb]

I did the same thing on my last house. I was able to buy T-1-11 sheets that were slightly damaged for almost nothing from a liquidator. Since I was ripping them anyway, it wasn't a big deal.

[andrewbarker]

What kind of electrical boxes did you use? The electrician on my build said that ordinary metal boxes were fine. I am having second thoughts. Helpful video. I am doing vertical siding as well.

[karalee]

I just saw your detailed video on building a retaining wall deadman. I am so grateful! Thank you for all you do:)