How To Install Lapboard Siding

First make sure you review the hardieplank lap siding installation instructions which contain the information you need for proper installation.

How to install lapboard siding.

How to install corner boards for clapboard siding 1. Join the clapboards with scarf joints as in step 3. Sometimes called clapboard or horizontal siding lap siding is a very good way of covering the side of a house. Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark.

To help you get started we d recommend checking out this helpful video which shows you how to cut and install starter strips and how to stagger lap siding for improved appearance. By carter silva on february 6 2015. Nail the clapboard to the studs. Natural wood siding lap clapboard or beveled is still a common exterior finish.

Panels are beveled which means that they are wedge shaped and that the bottom edge is thicker than the top. How to install wood lap clapboard or beveled siding part 1. Installing wood siding is not an overly difficult process but there are some keys to a successful project. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post.

Co written by emanuel silva. If you are looking for a popular and effective method of covering the side of a house you can go ahead and install lap siding. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it. Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it.

Carefully slide the notched piece of siding into place. Watch this to learn how to install hardieplank james hardie s world famous fiber cement lap siding. If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped. Lap siding also called horizontal siding or clapboard may be made of wood fiber cement plywood hardboard or similar materials.