Homemade Clapboard Siding

The scale of your dollhouse matters when selecting materials to make clapboard siding for your dollhouse.

Homemade clapboard siding.

Starting at either end make a series of marks along one edge each equal to the clapboard s exposure to the weather. Woohoo time to dig out a few tools and perform some emergency clapboard siding repair. For instance an 8 inch clapboard with 6 inches to the weather would mean only 2 inches is being overlapped. It is a series of wedge shaped strips of overlapping wood that shed water very efficiently and can last for a century or more.

Now how a person fastens the clapboards can make a difference. They have less tendency to warp and swell. Clapboard siding can be installed by homeowners without using professional services. It takes longer to read all this then it does to make 2 8 foot clapboards 16 linear feet of siding rinse and.

For 6 inch siding that s 4 1 2 inches. That is really using the available logs for the greatest coverage but to me is a bit on the skimpy side. Vinyl siding is an alternative to clapboard and has grown in popularity since the 1950s. Clapboard is a very simple and ingenious invention.

When choosing lumber for your clapboard siding project consider soft woods such as pine and fir. Nov 15 2013 the scale of your dollhouse matters when selecting materials to make clapboard siding for your dollhouse. We have wood drop siding and thanks to mother nature working her magic one piece had a good bit of rot. The best way to make this fix would have been to remove the entire piece of siding as all the clapboards in that area spanned the entire 12 wall.

My father takes off the clapboard and loads it on a trailer while i lift the cant and put shims under it. To ensure that the courses are evenly spaced make a swing stick from a straight 1x3 at least 6 feet long. Usually a spacing jig or roofing jig is installed to form the base of clapboard sidings. Wooden coffee stirrers craft sticks and tongue depressors all make good clapboard once you trim the round ends and decide whether or not to stain weather or paint them.

Make a swing stick photo by david carmack. Then i take another cut. Sawing siding for the cottage using a bandsaw. This is a simple task since the jig is available in standard sizes and can be easily customized for various roofs.

While my father is removing that clapboard i am taking out the shims so i can make the second cut.