i need to weave in some replacement clap boards to fix some damage and close some gaps. is there a trick to doing it with out pulling up all 12ft of one and not damage the one above or below. is there a special saw to use to cut at a stud or tool for removing
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"Sounds like a job for...ta dah...Multi-Master."
https://www.4multimaster.com/vcc/feinpowertools/multimaster/190651/
WOW! Thank you Multi-master! You've done it again.
Don't forget to sing out, "ta-dah", each time you open the box. ~!~
Something just happened to my window! I was happily typing and ended right back here again.I just spent a lot of time this past week or so replacing claps with the MM. It saved me a lot of hours and I only had to replace a third as much wood as I would have if I peeled back normally.very surgical and precise
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very surgical and precise
"Circumcisions! Used by hospitals nationwide"
"we have circumstantial Evidence that while others go 'round and round. we beat them all and get right to the meat of the matter."Think I can get a job at an advertising firm?
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Yes but you'd be better as a press agent.
"I just spent a lot of time this past week or so replacing claps with the MM. "While it might have been faster wasn't very expensive?I mean look at the cost of a MM and then one will only cover a couple of square inches..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
The only cost was a blade which i billed to the job. I had bought the MM a couple years ago for a special job that only the MM could do, so it had already paid for itself.
I am hearing something like six bills for it now, but I think mine cost me about 350 with a selection of blades and detail sanding stuff. That has been paid back a couple times already as far as I am concerned. The ease of the siding repair was icing on the cake.Also, it makes me look more professional.
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"Also, it makes me look more professional."It makes you look more like a mad artist than a professional carpenter to have sectons of claps removed and in their place a number MM stuck on the wall. What did you use PL preminum to keep them in place.You forget that you are talking to an insane person..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
i am remodeling an 1860's church. for the most part the siding is good except for the occasional split clapboard. i estimate i saved the homeowner 3 grand in repairs replacing only the damaged claps. no carnage:) before i had the multimaster i never would have tried repair work like that. also used it to notch ledgers into a wall for a shed roof and sbout fifty other things. what a great investment.
Every day is a gift, that's why it's called the present.
I second the multimaster. Or you could use a jap pull saw and a chisel. Be careful where you nail. You want the nails high enough on the clap so that it only goes through one clap. If it goes through 2, it will split the one below.
"It is what it is."
Use a thin, flat bar to gently pry at the offending boards. If the nails come away easily, pull them, if not, drive them into the sheathing with a punch. Once you've loosened all the nails in the area to be repaired, plus a few nails beyond in both directions (left and right), gently pry the board above your repair area away from the house and slip a block of wood under it to keep it there and give you clear access to the board to be cut. Scribe a cut line on the board to be cut with a combo square and use a recip. saw with a fine tooth blade mounted backwards. Go at it gently.
I made a saw for exactly this purpose. I took a long jig saw blade and epoxied it into a hole that I drilled into the end of a 5/8" dowel. It looks like a steak knife on steriods. Works great when you need to get into tight areas to saw through something thin like a clap.