Cutting Clapboard Siding

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Cutting clapboard siding.

Step 4 install a 1 4 inch roundover bit into your router and set the depth to1 4 inch. Cutting clapboards issue 67 when remodeling or building additions it is often necessary to cut existing clapboard siding along a vertical line. Long time sawyer bob pierce operates the radial saw at ward clapboard mill in moretown vermont. Smartside 38 series primed engineered panel siding common.

Sawing siding for the cottage using a bandsaw. Keep the boards pressed against the table and the fence and feed them slowly to avoid chipping and splits. Otherwise insert small wooden wedges or a screwdriver up under the siding to pry it out slightly then cut the nails with a hacksaw. Run your siding stock across the table saw with one 3 4 inch edge down cutting a bevel along its length.

Secure old siding by driving ring shank nails down at an angle through the old nail holes. Grab butt edge of damaged clapboard and lift up sharply snapping it off. Unlike flat grain siding cut from stock lumber ward s clapboards are produced using a unique radial sawing process similar to traditional rift sawing. Tap flat bar under siding to loosen nails.

Use flat bar to carefully pry up the siding course above. Problem is the saw s shoe wants to hang up on the protruding lower edges of the clapboards which in turn makes the blade dip into the sheathing underneath it. Pull loose nails from clapboard siding. Ward clapboard mill has been cutting radially sawn boards since 1864.

Pull nails from split clapboard.