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Install Exterior Siding with Douglas Fir

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Couple moves to Colorado and builds dream home by hand!

What happens here

The homeowners embarked on the significant task of installing all the exterior siding themselves. They chose Douglas fir wood and stained it with a dark walnut stain. A crucial step was painting the back of each board for protection before installation. They installed a quarter-inch riser off the Tyvek house wrap to create an air gap, which allows for ventilation and prevents moisture buildup that could lead to wood rot. The front side of the siding was also stained. This labor-intensive process for the siding alone took an entire summer.

Goal: Begin the exterior finishing by installing Douglas fir siding, ensuring each piece is stained and sealed on both sides for protection against the elements.

Tools and materials

  • Dark Walnut Stain
  • Douglas Fir Wood
  • Paint Brushes/Rollers
  • Quarter-inch Spacers
  • Siding Fasteners
  • Tyvek House Wrap

What they say

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every bit of the siding up here they did all by hand and it's all douglas fir right right and you guys painted all this and sealed it and i mean it looks great so let's put the camera on these guys and let them talk us through the house guys welcome to colorado mountain living so let us tell you a little bit about our house so so far our one of our big projects was the siding behind us you can see the red colored um douglas fir we used actually i think it was dark walnut dark walnut was the stage stain that we used on it amy did all the staining at before i put it up uh a little bit afterwards but so every board she painted the back to protect it and then the front she stained it and then uh as there she was finishing up i would start putting them on the house yeah so we had quite the system going we had about uh eight different saw horses all of our boards lined out and luckily it didn't rain too much last summer yep it was good it was good so we did a quarter inch riser off the back

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