Considering flashing over windows on horizontal siding... I'm working on installing horizontal siding on the upper part of the gables of our house. But this thing with flashing before siding isn’t easy.
If you’re going to install the flashings before the frames and siding, how do you smoothly install the siding? Let's say the flashing ends up right in the middle of a board, you don't want to notch the board all the way down, right? You'd generally want just a groove in the siding board where the flashing goes out, not cut off the entire bottom of the board, right? Or does it not matter? I’m thinking it almost feels tighter to skip the flashing altogether and keep the siding intact, although I'm definitely not going to do that.
But how on earth does a carpenter do this quickly? It takes forever to measure this out and get it reasonable when you don't have the siding and frames in place?
Grateful for quick reflections 🙂
If you’re going to install the flashings before the frames and siding, how do you smoothly install the siding? Let's say the flashing ends up right in the middle of a board, you don't want to notch the board all the way down, right? You'd generally want just a groove in the siding board where the flashing goes out, not cut off the entire bottom of the board, right? Or does it not matter? I’m thinking it almost feels tighter to skip the flashing altogether and keep the siding intact, although I'm definitely not going to do that.
But how on earth does a carpenter do this quickly? It takes forever to measure this out and get it reasonable when you don't have the siding and frames in place?
Grateful for quick reflections 🙂
No one who has any idea how to easily solve something like this? I've managed to solve it anyway, but it was tricky. Carpenters can't mess around with this kind of thing for too long.. So the question remains, how do you solve something like this more easily.. Or is it some kind of carpenter's secret?
Difficult in text, but say that the trim should be 120mm, then you measure from where the reveal ends up/or where the trim covers the window if the window aligns with the facade. There you place the bottom edge of the sheet metal. Then it's just a matter of stacking on with paneling, and when you get to the sheet metal, you notch out the panel board the same width as the sheet metal, and the cut lands about 2cm above the sheet metal (longitudinal cut of the panel). The hole that then occurs under the sheet metal and window, you put some scrap panel pieces in. Then it's just a matter of nailing the topmost trim against the underside of the sheet metal and the width needed. The scrap pieces you set function only as spacers to nail it in place. And voila, there's no hole between the sheet metal and paneling and everything looks homogeneous when the trim around the window is complete.
Do you mount the plates first and then put up the facade, or how do you do it? I threaded the plate through the slot I made in the middle of the board (using a plunge saw and jigsaw for the sides), and then I attached the board along with the plate, screwing the plate in place by driving facade screws through the board and the plate's protruding edge on the back.P Patzie said:
It worked and turned out well. 👍 But there must be easier ways...