How To Turn Bevelled Cedar Siding Into Shingles

Staining the restored cedar siding.

How to turn bevelled cedar siding into shingles.

But one aspect is that cedar s lovely red turns a monotonous gray surprisingly quickly. Apply it with a pump sprayerlet it sit for about 15 minutes before rinsing it off with with a garden hose. Western red cedar trim boards. In the past he had used oil based wood stain products but found the mold and mildew returning within a few years each time.

Cover cedar siding with primer to keep any tannic acid or natural red coloring from. Western red cedar shingle panels. A style that was very popular in the 70s and 80s seems to be coming back it is in the staining of the cedar siding with a transparent stain so that all of the inherent beauty of the grain shows through. Be sure to keep the hose pointed downward to avoid forcing water up behind the shingles.

The house below has used a combination of heavy bevelled cedar siding a clear stained shingle and cultured stone. Shingle siding house with massive paint failure. Used for shingles trim house siding decking fences hot tubs and gates cedar is cheap widely available highly versatile easy to fabricate and best of all it weathers exceptionally well. Our cedar siding online calculator will provide you with an estimate on how much material you will need for your project.

The cedar bureau recommends using a solution of 1 part bleach to 3 parts water. Board and batten would have meant extra prep for the batten pieces plus the boards themselves were a little too rustic to provide the clean lines. Fasten a cedar starter strip the same thickness as the top of the beveled siding all around the house using a tape measure and level to set it level along the bottom of the wall. Now the cleaned and brightened cedar wood siding is ready to stain.

Read the full post. Sand it to remove the loose surface particles. Shingles would have looked nice but would have required far more prep work to make usable shingles. We chose to make our cedar boards into lap siding as opposed to shingles or board and batten.