Recent Staircases

[joiner1970]

I do know some good brickies but still I don't know if I would want them in my house ;D

 

[Deansocial]

I just like the idea of doing it all myself

 

[jmbfestool]

I do know some good brickies but still I don't know if I would want them in my house ;D

I know two good brickies also but they will cost you some money! They like everything to be perfect.

 

[ceddy]

very nice staircase, clean modern lines. love it.

 

[3PedalMINI]

Gorgeous Work!

 

[Old School Carpenter]

This is the outside of the first house, 1400M of oak cladding,

Can you tell me more about the oak cladding (siding) used there? oak is not something we typically would use as an exterior species, at least not to that extent.  What profile is it? Thickness? How is it fastened? Are lap joints back beveled? Is it left to weather naturally like a cedar, or do you use a preservative

Thanks

Mike

 

[ldmillar1981]

Hi Mike

The cladding is from http://www.vastern.co.uk/tc-oak.html the profile is a 30degree cut top and bottom, and a face height of 87mm overall height of 95mm, it is 20mm think, and fixed using stainless steel pins two per batton and the battons at 400mm centres.

The top of that house is a timber frame, 150mm x 50mm studs, then externally there is a wood fibre insulation called pavatherm which is 80mm thick, then there is a tyvek membrane, and then 38mm x 38mm battons that fix through the insulation into the studs, then the cladding is nailed to this, the cladding is fitted with 8mm gaps in this case. I have done other places with difference variations of this system, sometimes there are two membranes the additional one directly behind the cladding. we also use a lot of sweet chestnut cladding that is sustainable.

As for preserving it depends of the client, in that case it was coated with 4 coats of a very expensive yacht oil. As they want it to remain fresh as long aspossible.

This was one left to naturally silver
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Regards
Leigh

 

[ldmillar1981]

Coffee table I made for the wife from the left over bits of cladding.
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Sanded down to 400 grit with the ro150 and the given 3 coats of osma wax oil

 

[Old School Carpenter]

Thanks Leigh,
I assumed you were fastening over some kind of batten, here in the states we would build something similar, what we would call a rain screen wall.  Basically battens, flashed and vented top and bottom of the wall to allow for siding (cladding) to dry out.

I've never thought of using red oak as an exterior siding application, but have used white oak for exposed posts/ beams.

Mike