Cedar, weatherboard & elepan cladding

[Cealan]

Ongoing cedar boards on this house 3/4 quarters completed!! 10mm gap on cedar board with rebated corner to keep the gap around the corners! Used a template for all the nail which are perfectly straight! 3 separate types of cladding that needed different thicknesses of battens to finish into each other correctly!!

 

[Cheese]

Nice job, really like the rebate around the corner, everything looks consistent. I also like the flat vertical contrasting with the beveled horizontal under the window. [thumbs up]

Couple of questions, what are you going to seal it with?
Is that mahogany around the windows?
Were you planning on cailking anything?
Stainless nails I assume?

 

[Cealan]

Thank you! I really appreciate it![emoji106]
-The painters are sealing it with an oil based stain so it will look "black" when it is painted! I personally don't like it but its what the owner wants!
-the joiner that made the windows told me it is rosewood but i think this is untrue! The grain looks like more like teak to me!
-no caulking, just expanding foam from the inside around the windows
- copper nails

 

[Cheese]

[member=40969]Cealan[/member]

I also thought that it was teak because of the grain, but I figured mahogany was a lot cheaper to use and just as functional for window frames.

Another question, in photos 5 & 6 where the bevel siding meets the corners, I'd be afraid of water running down and entering the end grain of the siding. Is there some other mechanism involved that prevents this?

Copper nails...interesting, will they be left to patina on their own?

Is this whole theme your design?