Sheathing a house with siding is not such a difficult event; any owner can do it, although, of course, it will be necessary to spend some time on it and acquire some skills. My recommendations will help you not only think through all the stages of the work in advance, but also make the purchase of the necessary materials so that your house cladding with your own siding becomes as easy as possible.
Based on what type of structure you have, as well as what seasonality of living in it, there are two options for cladding siding. The first - with the use of insulation materials, and the second - without them. It is clear that for a building with year-round use, it is simply necessary to use a heater, but for a temporary residence option, for example, a summer residence, it makes no sense to spend extra costs on insulation material.
Siding the house is carried out from the bottom (base) in the direction of the roof. Today, the market offers a wide selection of material for plating the basement. These are special basement siding panels, which can be with different textures, such as wild or decorative stones. Sheathing of the whole house with basement siding is allowed, this will create the impression of a stone house.
For best results, do-it-yourself siding is performed on an exceptionally flat plane, otherwise the stripes will be made in the form of waves and bumps. You can make an even plane with the help of stripes of vertical laths from timber, in the most “difficult” places, as well as in places of openings for doors, windows - stripes of horizontal laths. The thickness of the bars for the guides depends on the magnitude of the surface level differences and can be from 20 to 50 mm. The bars are fastened at intervals of 30 to 40 cm.
Further siding of the house is carried out in several stages. The first is the fastening of starting, corner and connecting profiles. The second is fastening through decorative strips of connecting profiles, which is carried out either with an overlap or end-to-end. One strip of siding, on average, has a length of 3.6 - 3.7 meters, if you use the
basement siding, then its length is one meter and it is attached end-to-end with a special hole. To close the upper end panel, a special finishing strip is used, and, as an option, there can also be a decorative universal profile. In any case, it is necessary to study in detail the installation manual for one or another type of siding, which is attached when purchasing it.
Sheathing the house with siding has different opinions, both for and against. Let us leave these disputes, and in conclusion we will talk a little about the advantage
of siding. First of all,
this is aesthetics. The building has a fresh and beautiful appearance. The second is the lack of the need for periodic updating of the facade (painting, varnishing, etc.). In the third - siding panels together with finishing materials create the ideal protection of the building from environmental influences.