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   JHOLE | Jan 19, 2009 05:28pm | #1

   Use the balance of the previous course to start the next course.

   In theory, you would only have one piece of scrap left.

   Creates semi random splices. Until you get a balance piece that is too small to start with and go back to a full starting piece. This will start the repeat all over.

   .02

   Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City

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   DanH | Jan 19, 2009 07:13pm | #2

   Of course that may not work out well if the width of the wall is something really close to, say, 1.5 times the length of a piece. But in that case the thing to do is to trade pieces with a different wall.
   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith

   Edited 1/19/2009 9:36 pm by DanH

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   JHOLE | Jan 20, 2009 05:35am | #9

   -Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City

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   john7g | Jan 19, 2009 07:25pm | #3

   before you stat, if you have enough authority over the crew, try to find the visual points of the house as you would walk up to it as a guest and start running siding form the furthest end back towards you.  This will put the seams/laps facing away from the visitor.

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   DanH | Jan 19, 2009 07:41pm | #4

   Yeah, basically install the siding from back to front -- from the most distant point in your field of vision to the closest.
   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith

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   BossHog | Jan 19, 2009 07:44pm | #5

   What john7g said is a good technique. Makes for a more professional job.

   In the past I've started with a full piece. On top of that use a 9' piece to start, then 6', and finish up with 3'. Then start over again with a full piece and repeat the process.

   Makes a nice visual where the seams are all lined up at a slant.

   I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. [David Dinkins, former NY city mayor]
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   Hazlett | Jan 19, 2009 07:53pm | #6

   interesting--
   on the rare occasions when I vinyl something---i deliberately AVOID doing that because I do NOT want that interesting "visual".
   I want the fewest seams,period- and the ones that I must have- I want to be widely scattered and random so that repeating patterns do NOT appear-- because the eye picks up those patterns quite easily
   stephen

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   john7g | Jan 19, 2009 08:15pm | #7

   I think the uniformity of Rons suggestion is less noticable to most people.  Spread the joints out over more than 3 rows and the conisitancy will hide easier than if they're scattered kind a willy-nilly. 

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   DanH | Jan 19, 2009 08:17pm | #8

   Yeah, I prefer random too, but other people seem to prefer the regular stair-step pattern. It's a personal preference sort of thing, I guess.
   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith