Now It’s Time For The Weatherboards.
Okay so you’ve got the roof in place. What do you do next?
Well you’ve got all your wall frames in place but at the moment they’re just uncovered frames so you need to cover your frames to make your external cladding.
I used timber weatherboards which look great and which are relatively inexpensive. There is a place near me that machines weatherboards and I love the look of their natural weatherboards. They cut them from a whole trunk of a tree cutting from the outside to the inside of the tree producing a tapered weatherboard that retains the natural edge that would have been the outside of the tree so you get this curvy looking edge to your weatherboards and this looks really good.
Of course you have to get them onto the walls. You need to nail them on the walls and you have to remember to use galvanised nails or your nails will rust over time and your weatherboards will fall off. I was surprised at how expensive galvanised nails really can be.
It’s a long day nailing up your weatherboards. I was working by myself which meant that I had to nail my boards and hold them up at the same time. This is a very easy because you have to hold your board with one hand while you nail with the other. The boards are heavy and you hold them in place with your left hand, grabb the drill which is hanging from your belt and drill a hole with your right hand, put the drill down, put a nail in the hole with your right hand, take the hammer off your belt and try and drive the nail without letting the board slip down at either end.
After awhile you get the hang of it but you also have accidents and have to start some boards again.
And I forgot to mention that each board has to be cut to the exact right length or else you have a problem.
It takes quite a while to make your wall starting at the bottom and working to the top that once you finish you have a nice looking wall that is waterproof.
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