Does anyone concern themselves with these trivia?
Unless you put additional nailing packouts next to framed window and door openings, your last clapboard nail, adjacent those openings, just penetrates sheathing.
The next inboard nail, of course, hits a stud.
See attached.
What is more important, nailing at the ends into backing, or getting insulation into those exterior cavities?
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Gene, Gene, Gene.
Is this what you think of while your wife massages your feet?
More than 50% of the time, the distance to the next stud over on layout will be less than 7"
We use SS ring nails for siding. Ringers are hard to pull out.
Siding is normally not structural so not subject to as many stresses as to need stud nailing.
On most of the hundred year old siding I have removed for reno or addons, there was no attempt to hit studs and there is no sign that the nailing used was inadequate ( although this was on solid one inch lumber rather than ply or osb sheathing.
With properly dry and backprimed siding, there is little or no internal stress in the lignans to work at pulling the woood off the sheathing.
No, I don't worry about that trivia.
luv ya, Micro
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Another reason why brick mold makes more sense.