How the *&%#@! am I supposed to do this?
woody1777
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Looked at a siding job today, pretty straight forward except for the radiused outside corner of the wrap around porch. The beam (which the H.O. wants wrapped in aluminum trim coil or made maint. free.) follows the same radius.
My question is how would you deal with this ? Does anyone have a good method for wrapping or covering these?
Thanks.
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Cedar Shakes for the radius, trim w/ wood and cap with alum. or trim with PVC trim (it will bend)
Trim with Flexply and paint.
We have a product here in Canada called CanExcel. It's a exterior siding product. It comes 4 x 8 sheets and siding like sheets about 12" x 12 feet (approx). The point is that it may be able to handle your radius.
Dave
Cedar shingles was pretty common on victorian curved walls. Never seen it in shakes though
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tinfoil, works nicely and if you get the shiny stuff it keep squirrel off of the columns.
Aluminum coil works, but if the beam isn't perfectly plumb and square, it will looked wrinkled and ugly.
Porches have siding?
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LOL, wise guys.
I think he means the porch rake only . PVC is the ansewr.
OK, I see your point - But not all the way. A rounded porch would have a rounded roof bearing on a curved beam so there would not be a rake either.He went to look at siding job.He is doing the exterior trim of the house basiclay and it happens to have a curved beam on the house but he didn't mean to say there was siding on the porch or on the beam. It5 just happens to be on the smae job.Givenb that assumption - I use GP Primetrim for wrapping a beam like that.
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If the porch is vinyl I've seen it done with soffit material installed vertically. If it's wood clapboards and the radius isn't too tight you can kerf the top edges and force them. If the radius is tight you saw boomerangs out of 1x cedar then thickness plane them with an angled auxiliary table. If it's shingles you're all set.
Azek on the beams. The sides will bend, cut the bottom out of wide pieces or a sheet.
On the kerfing -
"If it's wood clapboards and the radius isn't too tight you can kerf the top edges and force them. "Did you mean to say you can kerf FOR the top edges?as in - take a kerf out of the bootom back of the clapboard correspnding to the size of the top edge where it would fit up under?There are some claps made just that way - like a shiplap at the back bottom. I'll bet they would work.
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Nope, I meant that if you have a 5 1/2" clapboard with a 4" exposure, you cut 1 1/4" down from the top edge say every 6" or so and the clapboard will more readily conform to a curve.
I'm sure you know this, but if you try to install regular claps on a curved wall the clapboard wants to bow down at each end. If you force it level, the top edge wants to spring out from the wall.
Maybe the clapboards with rabbets would work, but the ones I've seen are cut from thicker material than regular clapboards which makes me think they wouldn't want to bend as easily."This is a process, not an event."--Sphere
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Get your self some boards that are not taperd and install on that section only. kerf backs if needed.
Hey woody -
I see you've been reading all these. Why keep us in the dark speculating on exactly what you are talking about?
Come on in and clear things up so we can be able to say something beneficial instead of wasting time guessing and kidding around?
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Why keep us in the dark speculating on exactly what you are talking about?
Havent had time to get a reply around yet, plus I am taking pics hopfully this afternoon, I should get em posted sometime this weekend. Hopefully. =)
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Hey better late than never right?
We wound up using Alcoa bead board soffitt and siding, and a combo of trim coil and Azek for the curve.
Thanks to all who contributed ideas.
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