I plan on installing #1 cedar shingle siding on our new home. Substrate will be 1/2″ osb. I would like to use a pneumatic stapler. What size & type of staple should I be looking at.
John B
I plan on installing #1 cedar shingle siding on our new home. Substrate will be 1/2″ osb. I would like to use a pneumatic stapler. What size & type of staple should I be looking at.
John B
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One that fires these in the 1-1/4" length, galvanized. Bostitch makes a couple.
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I use a Senco stapler and their 1/2" crown x 1-1/2" length stainless steel staples. Galvanized staples for pneumatic guns are electrogalvanized and may cause tannin bleed in cedar. You can use hot dip galv siding nails if you want to hand nail, or buy a siding nail gun and hd galv nails for it.
cedarbureau.org has good info on sidewall installation.
edit to say... 7/16 crown, not 1/2. Box of 3000 costs about $80 locally, and I figure I have about $600 worth of staples in the 18 square of shingles on my house.
Edited 11/8/2004 8:04 pm ET by davidmeiland
John,
Check out this thread I started a few months ago. Good info. I used a Senco SNS40 oil-less stapler shooting 7/16ths crown...1.5 inch. Worked great.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=43094.1