Cedar siding on kitchen wall..

After the windows were installed on this part of the house, the next step was the cedar siding. It took a couple of test tries on some scrap to figure out the best possible angle to nail our stainless steel nails, etc. These boards have all been primed with the Sikkens Cetol 1 product. Eventually we will be painting it again with Sikkens Cetol 23 Plus twice. This is a very nice finish and the product is designed to last 3 to 4 years on the sunnier side and 4 to 5 on the non sunny side of the home. We shall see I guess. Very few of the walls will receive direct rain, so that should help.

The work goes relatively fast, since we are using our Bosch nail gun to drive these nails. It only gets tricky when we get to a window and need to cut out part of the cedar siding to wrap around. The festool track saw and a the jig saw the tools we use for that. Nothing has a better plunge cut then the festool and its always extremely accurate and straight.

These boards are all 126 inch / 10.5 feet (3.2m).

Finished cedar siding closeup.

Stainless steel nails that are 2 3/8 long. You get 2000 per box. Too long for us, however there is no other choice on the island. These are twice as expensive as a box of galvanized nails where you get 5000 in a box. Quality doesn't come cheap I guess.