I have built a small mudroom for a customer and they want to cover the walls with cedar. I will be backpriming with oil base paint to make the job last but I would like to know of an easy way to create an air gap behind the siding. Do they make any ready made spacing material for that purpose?
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Woodman,
You are talking about cedar clapboards, right? Any lumberyard has or can get primed cedar clapboards, to save you the trouble of doing it yourself. It's not a fun job.
The best way to create an air gap is to run 1x3 strapping vertically, but here's the next best thing: http://www.benjaminobdyke.com/html/products/slicker.html
Mike Maines
It would have been good of you to tell me about preprimed stock before I went and got all this raw lumber.<GI only have to prime about 130 linear feet, the mud room is all glass. I do not work with clapboards very often, that roll would last a very long time. Maybe I will cuts strips of the 30 wt paper and tack up two or three thicknesses, do you think that will make up an appropriate air gap?
"cedar breather"...comes in rolls from your lumber yard. HD may even carry it.
Its a plastic mesh that you simply tack up with roofers.
Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Andy, the link I posted is for Homeslicker, Benjamin Obdyke's product for sidewalls. Cedarbreather is BO's product for roofing--same idea, but the wall product is much finer since sidewall shingles are less forgiving of humps and bumps.
Edit to add: Homeslicker is also available with tyvek already attached!
Edited 10/21/2006 3:57 pm ET by woodguy99
good call..
Tyvek under cedar though I thought was a no no...maybe its cool with the slicker though?Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
http://WWW.CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
That's a good question. If the cedar is backprimed, and the Homeslicker is holding the wood away from the Tyvek, will the tannins still do their evil?
That whole thing is questionable I think. To be honest with you though. Even though I have all the answers to the universe..lol.. there was only one thing in the entire world I didn't know and sure enough it turned out to be the Tyvek Cedar thing. I covered the entire 3 car garage/shop area here in Tyvek before I cedarized it. I'm gonna check it out in another year in one spot I know I can easily get to. First time I used Tyvek too...figures.Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
http://WWW.CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
I learned that one here too. For what it's worth, I have taken apart or remodeled several places that had tyvek and cedar claps or shingles. I don't recall ever seeing a problem. Maybe because I wasn't looking for it, or because I was fixing problems caused by other things, I don't know. I would guess it would depend on lots of factors. So I wouldn't get too worried about it if I were you.
It seems that there are several of us here that know most answers to the questions the universe holds...we should start a club....