Hey,
Quick question, according to this nice description of nailing battens for horizontal cladding, he only makes 2 small cuts in the horizontal nailing batten at the bottom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjzpYgzYvzo
Is that really enough :eek:
I've seen some people buying mouse bands between the vertical nailing battens = costs money.
I read that mice can't get through anything smaller than 6mm.
Can't I just drill a whole lot of 6mm holes in the horizontal nailing batten?
Tedious maybe, but cheap?
How have you done with ventilation behind horizontal cladding?
Quick question, according to this nice description of nailing battens for horizontal cladding, he only makes 2 small cuts in the horizontal nailing batten at the bottom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjzpYgzYvzo
Is that really enough :eek:
I've seen some people buying mouse bands between the vertical nailing battens = costs money.
I read that mice can't get through anything smaller than 6mm.
Can't I just drill a whole lot of 6mm holes in the horizontal nailing batten?
Tedious maybe, but cheap?
How have you done with ventilation behind horizontal cladding?
Since no one bothered to give their explanation, I'll answer again how I did it after figuring it out a bit.
In case someone searches this thread and wonders
The bottom lying nail battens I cut 6-7mm off, then I split/sawed 6-7mm strips which I then cut into about 10cm pieces.
So behind each stud (about c/c 60), I placed a spacer when nailing the lying nail battens, so the outside aligns, but I get a 7mm gap inward for ventilation.
No cost for mouse band/sheet/mesh and it took 15 minutes to split spacers.
Turned out great!
In case someone searches this thread and wonders
The bottom lying nail battens I cut 6-7mm off, then I split/sawed 6-7mm strips which I then cut into about 10cm pieces.
So behind each stud (about c/c 60), I placed a spacer when nailing the lying nail battens, so the outside aligns, but I get a 7mm gap inward for ventilation.
No cost for mouse band/sheet/mesh and it took 15 minutes to split spacers.
Turned out great!
Didn't work great, when the fabric started to stretch a bit due to the wind it blocked the gap.
Now placed a cleaved strip directly against the fabric, so the air gap faces outward.
THAT worked great!
Now placed a cleaved strip directly against the fabric, so the air gap faces outward.
THAT worked great!
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I thought horizontal paneling was God's gift to humanity in terms of ventilated paneling, just install battens (vertical), keep a mouse strip at the bottom and a gap at the top so air can circulate. Carpenter Magnus' method is, of course, cheaper and simpler but provides much poorer ventilation.
He places battens right up against the window, which feels a bit strange, so you need to fill from the outside as well. If nothing else, for when you replace the window in the future. But I've watched a lot of his videos, and he's great, so I assume he knows what he's doing.
By the way, your solution with an open slot at the bottom sounds good to me. (Do you have a slot at the top near the roof as well??
He places battens right up against the window, which feels a bit strange, so you need to fill from the outside as well. If nothing else, for when you replace the window in the future. But I've watched a lot of his videos, and he's great, so I assume he knows what he's doing.
By the way, your solution with an open slot at the bottom sounds good to me. (Do you have a slot at the top near the roof as well??
Magnus is great to check out, he has many good tips & tricks
Yeah, sometimes you get a bit carried away when you think too much, so I dropped standing battens and nailed split ones in between.
I do have air at the top, but I'm not finished with the closed eaves, so I'm figuring out how to get the ventilation right for the panel & roof with the eave box, but it will probably work out
Yeah, sometimes you get a bit carried away when you think too much, so I dropped standing battens and nailed split ones in between.
I do have air at the top, but I'm not finished with the closed eaves, so I'm figuring out how to get the ventilation right for the panel & roof with the eave box, but it will probably work out