all right folks welcome back to

brazilian wood depot’s youtube channel

my name is sam and i go over everything

regarding brazilian hardwoods decking

siding and flooring today i’m going to

be going over siding

in particular it’s a rain screen siding

profile i’m going to go into the wall

system itself the profile of the woods

and then we’ll be looking at three

different species so if you’re looking

at doing some sort of siding product on

your house an accent wall or perhaps

more than an accent wall stay tuned uh

because here we go

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all right rain screen siding what is

rain screen siding green screen siding

almost always is some sort of siding

material of course and then space behind

the siding material to accommodate

airflow so what i’ve set up here for

myself and i’ve used a couple of studs

that are just here in the back of my

warehouse

i’ve got studs that are framed on 16

inch centers which is common then i’ve

got my sheathing in this case it’s just

a piece of osb so you think can be a

number of different things

typically you’ll have a waterproof

membrane on top of that no big deal i

didn’t need it here so i didn’t use any

but tyveks or what some sort of

waterproof membrane on top of that and

then you’ve got your furring strips

furring strips often are made out of

pressure treated one by four for

instance ripped in half and then placed

and tacked up on top of those studs in

this case i’m using a pvc material pvc

material is a great thing to use it will

never rot um and it’ll work fine this is

a half inch pvc that is ripped out of a

piece of pvc trim board it was a four by

eight sheet i just ripped these little

pieces out of it it’s not very expensive

perhaps maybe a little more than

pressure treated maybe

but in any case half inch or three

quarter i like using three quarter

especially if there’s going to be some

more weather elements involved of course

here it’s not really going to matter i

used half inch

so again stud 16 inches on center

sheathing waterproof membrane and then

your furring strips

all right let’s talk about the profile

of the rain screen siding boards

themselves so what we do is we take a

one by six decking board and we run it

through our molder and we come out with

a uh three quarter inches thick so one

by six three quarter inch by five and a

half three quarter inches thick with a

net face of 4.5 inches all right

now some products some rain screen

siding products ipe products are a five

quarter uh rain screen siding product i

don’t really see the need for that it

just seems unnecessary and frankly a

little wasteful

certainly more expensive that way

keeping it at the three-quarter seems to

me it seems us like the best thing it’s

not going to be weight bearing

so anyways our product is a

three-quarter material seems to make the

most sense what you’ll notice here and

this is how the boards are going to go

on is that i’ve got a groove in the

bottom

and a kind of a ship lap feature on the

top so what happens is you’ve got

the board that slides onto the clip like

that and when it slides onto the clip as

you can see

it’s flush with the bottom this is the

bottom of the board here’s the clip

so when i’ve started this wall down here

i started at the very bottom i put the

clip all the way down to that little

trim piece um all the way down to the

trim piece screwed it in slid the board

down and then started my next row of

clips so then of course the next row

eclipse goes on top just like you see

down there

um

i think that’s really all i have to say

about the profile itself

give you a close-up of our little clip

and the screw

this is an h-clip

as you can see there

this this piece goes onto the backing

onto the wall and it’s about

approximately an eighth of an inch thick

board slide on top of that and here is

the coated screw that goes into

the clip now the screw is long enough to

not only go through the clip

and go through the furring strip go

through the sheathing but also get into

the stud which is really

important because we really want to hit

the stud to create some

ability to hold the weight

that’s why these screws are a little

longer

two and a half inches is good two inches

typically gets the gets the job done as

well um so what you’re going to see me

do next is start placing these boards up

all the way up i’m going to do three

species i’ve started with mosser and dub

on the bottom and then i’ll do ipe and

then at the top i will do kumaru and

then i’ll talk about how i address that

vertical termination at the end

all right just want to clear up a couple

of the comments i’ve made up to this

point so first off if you’re using our

rain screen siding product for an

exterior wall you should be using

furring strips with a minimum thickness

of three quarter inches they can be

thicker than that that’s fine but it

should be a minimum three quarter inches

so um a pressure treated one by four

ripped in half is fine or that pvc

material at three quarter inches would

also be fine uh probably last longer and

cost less to use the pvc material

interior walls it really doesn’t matter

you can use a half inch and probably get

away with a quarter inch furring strip

there

the screws that we sell with the h clips

for the siding product are two and a

half inches long not two inches i used

two inch long screws in the video

because they were handy but they come

with two and a half inch long screws

which guarantees more thread bite into

those studs the standard board lengths

for sighting orders are six to 14 feet

we maximize that at about 14 feet so if

you have longer spans uh plan on varying

those butt joints if it’s a shorter span

of four or five feet then of course full

length

okay so i’m all the way at the top of my

term uh termination my vertical

termination and you can see there’s just

a little space there so what i’ve done

is i’ve taken the last of the tiger wood

piece and i’ve ripped it down okay so

now all i have is just the bottom piece

i’m going to slide that onto those clips

and then i’m going to use this pro plug

tool

which i’ve talked about before in the

fastening methods video for decking i’ve

got this set up on my drill i’m going to

slide this on and a little trick

is when you put this up there

shim it out an eighth of an inch because

like i said the back of the h clips are

an eighth of an inch thick

so i’m going to use these little deck

clips but anything

that which are t-clips any you can’t see

it

anything that you can just to shim it

out an eighth of an inch and then i’m

going to pull the clips back out of

course

i just want to keep that consistent

eighth of an inch at the very top of the

board as well just like it is on the

clips on the bottom part of the board so

that’ll work really nicely and like i

said i’ll just yank those clips out

i’ll yank those clips out before i’m

done

set them in the right space there

and it’ll be real easy

i’ll throw some plugs in there

and uh we should be um we should be good

to go alrighty folks take one last look

at our wall i’ve got the

ripped piece of tiger wood on top for

that vertical termination

real easy just rip it where you need to

slide it down and then fasten the top

again if you use something little spacer

a one inch spacer behind it then it

won’t tilt back because of course that

clip on the bottom of that top board

does give it about an eighth of an inch

standoff from the furring strip i used a

little t-shaped deck clip you can use

anything it really doesn’t matter and

then of course i got my pro plugs in

there

super easy because of this uh

handy

pro plug system that i have talked about

before

it pre-drills and and

drills out the uh the hole for the pro

plug and then uh tap your pro plugs in i

like to use a uh a spare piece of block

and then tap that just to flush them up

and you could sand it of course if you

needed to but usually that’s not

necessarily necessary and also you don’t

have to use pro plugs you could use a

trim screw i could have dropped a piece

of j-mold on top of that and

pretty much covered it up or at least

hit it better um but i like that i like

the look of the pro plug i think it

looks real nice so take one good look at

that now these are the boards before

they’re oiled i’m going to go ahead and

oil them before we wrap this this

segment up

all right let’s talk about what product

i’m using to finish these boards with

it’s called mesmer’s uv plus natural

it’s a uv inhibitor oil it’s a wipe on

oil

you should not be planning on using a

stain or a sealer those are the

incorrect products to use in fact

there’s only a few products that would

be correct to use here we think mesmer’s

is the best to use keep it thin don’t

put it on too heavy it’s the same

process as oiling a deck so visit our

website bwdeepo.com for more details on

how to use this oil

well there you have it folks all done

as you saw

this is really easy it’s probably the

easiest siding product that you can

install

really doesn’t take any particular skill

or talent now of course addressing

corners

trimming up to windows and stuff like

that

it just takes a little advanced

preparation but it’s really not hard

there’s a lot of details on our website

and on our cad

on our cad details about how to address

those corners and stuff like that if you

ever have any questions you’re free to

give us a call but it’s really pretty

straightforward anybody that can do

siding can do this

it really doesn’t get easier than that

i’ll do another close-up but again

accent walls or full walls interior

exterior it really doesn’t matter some

people say and i’ve seen videos that say

you you know don’t oil it because it’ll

just eventually turn gray and otherwise

you’ll be doing an annual oiling process

it’s true you

this will suck up the oil pretty quick

in the you know in the weather

but i like it with oil i think it looks

nicer it looks richer and as you saw the

wipe on oil process it could not be

easier really straightforward takes

absolutely no skill whatsoever keep the

things that i say in my oiling video in

mind don’t put it on too heavy that’s a

problem make sure it’s a nice light coat

keep everything nice and

you know matte looking and not glossy if

it’s glossy you’ve put on too much and

you need to wipe it back up

but other than that it’s really

straightforward yeah you’re probably

it’s probably true it’ll be an annual

thing to keep up with the oil but it’s

so easy and in my opinion it makes it

look nicer if you’re going for that

patina look no need to ever use the oil

just don’t use it no big deal it doesn’t

affect the longevity of the boards

whatsoever

so

i think that does it for this siding

install i think i have anything else to

say

a lot of details on our website if you

have any questions visit the website or

give us a call i’ll be following up with

more videos and then as i sign out here

i’ll pick up the camera and kind of do a

close closer look at these again we’ve

got masarenduba down here below here ipe

from here to here

kumaru from here to the bottom of tiger

wood and then tiger wood for those last

two and a half or so boards

everything looks really nice of course

most people would not be mixing the

species like this i just wanted everyone

to see kind of what they look like next

to each other

all beautiful all a little different

very similar in cost with very little

differences there

yeah i think that’ll do it thanks for

watching and we’ll see you next time

hey thanks for watching the video hope

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wood depot located in atlanta georgia

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and we will help you as much as we can

stay tuned i have more content coming

out soon a more a deeper dive into some

of the fastening methods for decking and

perhaps some more updated content

regarding cleaning and oiling thanks

again

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