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Exterior Siding Installation

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What happens here

The prepared bark panels are installed as an exterior siding application. The key to their outdoor effectiveness lies in their overlapping installation, where each panel partially covers the one below it (lapped). This design ensures that any water hitting the surface sheds downwards, similar to traditional siding or roofing shingles. Crucially, an underlying layer of tar paper, or a comparable moisture barrier, must be installed beneath the bark panels. This provides a secondary waterproofing layer, guiding any water that might penetrate the bark joints away from the building's underlying structure and preventing moisture damage.

Goal: Apply bark panels to an exterior surface for weather protection and aesthetic appeal.

Tools and materials

  • Fasteners — To secure the bark panels and tar paper to the wall
  • Hammer or Nail Gun — For driving fasteners during installation
  • Measuring Tape — For ensuring correct alignment and spacing of panels
  • Utility Knife or Shears — For cutting tar paper and trimming bark panels if necessary
  • Prepared bark panels — The primary siding material
  • Tar paper — As an essential moisture barrier beneath the bark panels

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go in there and I can pry that bark right off. So from there I flatten, dry it, and square it, and put it on a pallet and we sell it for siding. And you said this is an outdoor application? >> Yes, that's an exterior application. So when it's lapped like this it'll shed the water. And in the installation guide you've got tar paper under that. So any water that's fallen in the cracks just sheds right off. >> Very cool, dude. Oh, I love it.

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