Diy Clapboard Siding

The scale of your dollhouse matters when selecting materials to make clapboard siding for your dollhouse.

Diy clapboard siding.

I am using special siding clamps that lets me do everything solo. Nail the clapboard to the studs. It is a series of wedge shaped strips of overlapping wood that shed water very efficiently and can last for a century or more. If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped.

Carefully slide the notched piece of siding into place. In this video i am using lp smartside lap siding to side my house. Wooden coffee stirrers craft sticks and tongue depressors all make good clapboard once you trim the round ends and decide whether or not to stain weather or paint them. Clapboard is a very simple and ingenious invention.

When choosing lumber for your clapboard siding project consider soft woods such as pine and fir. Before the siding can go up 1x4 starter strips of treated lumber should be nailed to the sill where the lower most course of siding will go up image 2. We used cedar siding to replace the rotted clapboards. First to help avoid any future insect damage back prime the cedar with oil based primer image 1.