I have a question regarding type of nail to require for the installation of wood siding. More importantly I would love to get feed back on my own tendancy of possibly “over building” or specifying something that might be over kill. We are looking to install 3/4″ x 10″ novelty pine siding. It is a timber frame with Sip’s panels and the siding has been pre-stained both sides and will be nailed to vertical strapping. If I was doing it myself I would use stainless ring shank nails. The contractor who will be doing it suggests using galvanized box nails (he does not use a nail gun.) Basically, is there any advantage to ring shank versus a box nail? Also is it worth the extra money to use stainless steel for a pine siding like this. Any advice is much appreciated.
Thank you.
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The ring will NOT pull out
The SS will NOT corrode
The galvy MIGHT do neither either
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If your siding is indeed pine, a hot dipped galvanized siding nail would be OK. If it is cedar, you need to use stainless.
Piffins right. Ring shanks hold unbelievable.
If somebody went thru all the trouble to backprime all that siding, (rightly so) then the job warrants SS nails IMO. Especially if you're setting them flush with the siding and not recessing them.
What happens is the plunger on the gun strikes the nail and chips thru the galvy coating on the head.
he's hand nailing
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SS RS all the way. It never ceases to amaze me how people are perfectly willing to spend $3000 on a whirlpool bathtub they'll use once a year, but won't shell out another $100-200 for the best siding fasteners.
They make a ring shank galvinized siding nail where I come from that would work for your application although SS is the top of the line.
My mouse keeps cahsing my eye back to this thread. I think it's the title. I'm trying to think whether I've ever seen any interior siding, LOL
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Stainless steel , ring shank is the only way to go. Only a... [Oh wait a minute, let's not go through that again ! ]
A professional would use nothing less. Pine siding will move due to weather conditions , and the ring shank has a better chance of minimizing that movement. In certain locations acid rain will interact with galvanized nails and produce black stains , much like the stains produced by interaction with cedar.
Just wanted to thank everyone for your imput. Part of me does think the galvy's would have done the job but we just couldn't do it. We are going with the SS ring shanks. With all the effort to strap the exterior and stain the back of the siding it just made sense.
Thanks again