T1-11 VS. smart siding?

[Nasty135]

Mopower,Not trying to tell anybody what to do ,but when I was building my barn I was going to use t1-11 also but didn't want the maintenance factor down the road ,so I searched for another similar looking product and ended up with vertical vinyl siding called board and batten... Used osb for underlayment and the vinyl siding is of the thicker type easy to handle and the price difference is offset by the osb (cheaper than t1-11) ..It makes a nice job and maintenance free /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifthat's worth quite a bit down the road /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Molerj]

Use tin snips on the siding, follow the line you make it will be straight as can be. Amish built my pole barn & that is what they used. I lined the inside bottom of the walls with the steel siding & I built a lean-to onto the barn & it worked fine. Nibblers are hard to turn with, circular saw--forget it. You keep saying you want to use steel siding but can't cut it straight. It can be done, there are millions of buildings out there with steel siding & they don't have crooked cuts. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[rambler]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Use tin snips on the siding, follow the line you make it will be straight as can be. Amish built my pole barn & that is what they used. I lined the inside bottom of the walls with the steel siding & I built a lean-to onto the barn & it worked fine. Nibblers are hard to turn with, circular saw--forget it. You keep saying you want to use steel siding but can't cut it straight. It can be done, there are millions of buildings out there with steel siding & they don't have crooked cuts. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif )</font>

Can't really see the difference in cutting wood or cutting tin - seems the wood would turn out wavy also then? Use a 2x something board for a straight edge for your saw - clamp it on the tin, cut along the board, not that hard to cut tin if you can cut wood?

Tin you only have to deal with this one time, wood you need to keep painting over & over & over & over. After one garage with some manufatured wood junk for siding, would not even look at any of the products mentioned, they don't hold paint & look like junk in a year, peeling paint, swollen wood mush, warped. Ugh. Why bother building something ugly? Guess a bad experience with the manufatured wood junk makes me shy of them.

Just my opinion.

--->Paul

 

[riptides]

I remember seeing those posts. Nice barn.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="red"> maintenance free </font> )</font>

BIG factor for me. Unfortunate that I did not follow that rule on 3 buildings. I guess in ten years time, you'll be hearing me whine.

Why wait...... "whine, darn, whine, why I did 'dat... whine"

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Evasive1]

Okay, I am with BXMMCC.

All your cut edges should be in J channel like around windows and doors and the corners and eaves should have inside and outside corner pieces covering up all the cut edges. This is the only way to make a tight building.

Mopower, you need to just hop in your car and go look at several metal buildings to see how other buildings are built.

You are going to run into the same problem with the wood products of trying to cut a perfect angle for the roof line and cutting them straight.

If trimmed right, you should not see any cut edges on a metal building.

 

[slowrev]

Don,
I used the Hardi panels when I lived in Florida. Termites can't touch em /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif They look nice, The price is good, and they last forever. It is just that they are heavy buggers to put up /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Nasty135]

Molerj, Yes I cut it with tin snips,but it is the thicker siding,so if you have alot to cut straight you can turn a circular saw blade backwards on the saw and it will cut like a hot knife through butter! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif without chipping...Mark

 

[Poppa]

Nasty,

Where did you get that vinyl siding. Been looking for something like that to re-cover my old board and batten barn but heck, your barn looks so nice I wouldn't mind using it on my house. Do you have a web site for it?

Mike

 

[Nasty135]

Poppa, I used a local company that would deliver to me ,But I did a google search on board & batten and came up with this web page /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gifIts very nice to work with because its not as flimsy as the cheaper horizontal siding,But I beleive siding comes in two different grades(thickness).I think the vertical has to be thicker so you can lock it together by pulling it tight against the last piece and not have it fall off before you can nail it.
Only one thing to remember ,with each piece installed you go up & down the ladder alot(good workout,sore feet /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif) ...Mark

 

[mopower440]

Duane, what are you talking about when you speak of the inside and outside corner pieces for the eaves?I am also planning on having the one pice facia and soffit made, it would be 5 1/2" on the fascia, then make a 90 degree bendd and then be 12" to cover the trusses, then make a nother 90 degree turn DOWN and then that would be about 1 1/2" to screw to the top plate, then lap the metal siding over the top of that, maybe it would look better if i put the siding up first, THEN let the 1 1/2" piece cover the cut edges of the metal, only thing is i would have to screw that metal cover to the siding..