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How you like those braces???


Okay, Thats done... What next?? Oh NO...Trim


Mk

You do have a way with clamps, uh braces. Ingenuity lives at your house for sure. Looks nice

There's more than one way to skin err a... TEAR

Way to go... Mary K

That's the way to use the old noodle. Looks real great. Love that clampsmanship.

The orthodontist from He**!!!

OOHHHHH ... you mean those braces!!!

Thanks Y'all!!

I can not take credit for it. When Dad comes over to help, he takes over, and I let him do his thing cause it always works.

We did the other side skin tonight and I had to turn the TD around so we could use the wall again for bracing.

Mk

way togo on the ingenuity factor...................

MK,

I thought that everyone put the side skins on like that. BTW it looks very nice.

Way To Go Mary K.... If there is a will there is a way...Look Out Folks Cause here comes Ingenuity K...

Lookn Great.

Classic Finn

I was wondering how wood exteriors looked so good......what kind of wood skin do you use for the exterior and how is the cost and ease of working with wood vs. aluminum?

John F

John, It's kind of a wash:

For aluminum, the ply wall has to be perfect or any screwheads would show through the alumnum. A wood skin is obviously more forgiving in this respect, and will hide just about ANYTHING under it.

On the other hand, you don't have to finish aluminum--stain, epoxy, varnish, whatever. I think installing alumimum requires more CARE, but I've heard of very few disaster stories here from anyone who followed the "rules" on doing it right.

Cost wise? Depends, but when you're all said and done, there's probably not that muchof a difference.

I used birch skins on mine, spar varnished only--no stain.

It's a matter of the look you're after. I'm just partial to woodies.

Ira wrote:I used birch skins on mine, spar varnished only--no stain.

Ok, I get it now.

I was wondering how people kept their builds so "clean" on the outside....is the norm 1/4" for the skins?

John F

Two thumbs up for your dad and his creative bracing methods.
Barb

John F wrote:

Ira wrote:I used birch skins on mine, spar varnished only--no stain.

Ok, I get it now.

I was wondering how people kept their builds so "clean" on the outside....is the norm 1/4" for the skins?

John F

No--it can even be just 1/8".

I used 1/8" beaded birch on my exterior skins. This is what it looks like, because I also used it in my CABIN:



So my summary is 3/8" ply wall with 1/8" exterior skin...

1 by 2 framing with 3/4" insulation (because a 1 by 2 actually measures 3/4" by 1 1/2")

And then 1/8" interior/cabin skin.

By the way--my roof is what's called "bendy birch" (1/4") that I had shipped to Florida from Massachussets. If you're going to do a Woody, the roof is where it gets tricky, because of the bend.

A lot of 1/4" material won't make the bend without some tricky "persuasion"--if at all--or it won't stain/varnish out the way you want. So some folks use two thinner layers--luan under and thin birch on top.

A lot of it has to do with what lumber is available in your area, and there's VERY little available near me in South Florida. But check these guys out:

http://boulterplywood.com/

They sell 1/8" bendy birch and it actually rolls up into a tube for shipping!