Fiber Cement Siding Installation Begins

waterproofing tape but then what happens when it trickles behind here I think what I'm going to do and I don't know if people really do this I'm going to put Tyvek tape over this so this five doesn't come off it's not really waterproof it's supposed to be holding the Tyvek to Tyvek together but it'll give it a little bit added support ah [Music] not a good moment for me right now it's finally siding day deciding has showed up we went with a product called True Wood uh from I think Lowe's we picked it up uh what I like about it it's long so it's wide it's composite board it's 12 inches long so you don't have to do six inch sheets out they'll take forever so these are longer boards I think they're like 20 bucks a sheet or something like that they come in 16 Footers the way they work they they're all the same exact Dimension there's no thickness or thinness so what you do is kind of like shingles on a roof you kind of get out of pitch so it's constantly diverting water and when you started you have to start from the bottom and constantly create that little bevel overlapping about an inch and putting your nails about three quarters to 5 8 of an inch stapling well not stable and you're gonna nail them together because stable's not gonna hold them and then work your way up now the process is really simple but you do have to cut a starter strip from the bottom first the reason why is because if you don't have a starter strip that sucker was gonna lay flat on your wall and it won't continue by cutting about an inch and a half starter strip and putting down below you're now creating that bevel so it can continue all the way up it's not rocket science folks let's nail it in [Music] specifically I haven't used it enough but they gave me instructions they use the manufacturer gave me instruction which is incredible and they're giving you the alignment patterns on nailing patterns and the type of nails make sure they're exterior Nails uh but the product's very simple the only thing really you have to keep in mind is you have to create a gap that's 3 16 on both sides to allow for wood expansion and contraction when you nail it nail them 16 inches on Center make sure hitting the studs and then the only place that you nail below as well are on the ends and the idea behind it you'll have a trim piece running through it and it'll conceal all those nail holes nothing better when they make something dummy please like me [Music] all right I just screwed up tremendously so I…