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Assess Existing Sheathing and Plan for Furring Strips

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How NOT to install Metal Siding- PRO tips & Everything you need to know from start to finish pt1 4k

What happens here

Examine the existing sheathing, noting that the garage has plywood on the corners and a brown felt board (Graylite) in the main wall sections. The felt board is not suitable for directly attaching new metal siding, as it will not hold screws securely. Therefore, furring strips (also known as nailers) will be required. The decision is made to reuse the removed old lap siding as these furring strips.

Goal: Determine the condition of the existing sheathing and plan for adding furring strips.

Tools and materials

  • Felt Board — Existing sheathing material that requires additional furring strips for secure attachment
  • Plywood — Existing sheathing material, suitable for direct attachment in corners

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[Applause] all right so what are we looking at Frankie well I would yeah so obviously we can't screw to this okay so I kept this up underneath so when you say obviously I just want to point out why you say obviously Frank there's nothing with ever felt because if you were putting on siding if we were going long ways then we skew into the studs we're standing our tent up right so we're not gonna be into the studs every time okay so we're doing something a little different you guys so we're actually going straight up and down with our tin but let's explain to them why we're doing there Frankie Kizza maybe because there may be used to seeing siding going sideways yeah well like this the siding was going sideways too but if you run your tent sideways with the humps in it the humps always get dirty they'll always be dirt on you know and it catches little bits of water and it's just kind of nasty yeah running metal siding straight up and down and if you look at most big buildings there's stuff like that that's way they usually run yeah just because building a stick building they will run a long way deciding but it's it's your preference of what you want how you want

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