i have a 20 year old house and some parts of the exterior are painted rendering. I would like to clad this with some 18mm cedar cladding? It would be quite easy if there was not a window in the middle of each one! I did think of building a frame and fixing it over the rendering out of 2 X1 tantalised timber. Then fix the cedar vertical onto it? But what do I do around the upvc windows ? The sills are just standard size so with the thickness of batterns and cedar cladding there would be not a lot sticking out ? Any ideas thanks
I have cedar cladding on one side of my house ... the recommendation was to actually use cedar battens which were about 19mm and then hidden stainless screws to fix the cladding in my case it was the channel type. Before you decide on vertical or horizontal cladding think it through, and maybe sketch it out or maybe diagonal or herringbone! Can I also recommend a supplier - I have nothing to do with them except as a pleased customer. Advice is excellent, their range extensive and pricing very good. http://www.silvatimber.co.uk/
Typically you frame around a window with thinner timber and then frame the vertical face. The picture below has no vertical frame on the face but has a drip edge on the top which goes behind the cladding to stop rain being driven and running behind the cladding
Hi thanks that looks fine, but my upvc sill sticks out roughly 25mm out from the rendering. If I was to put a 18mm battern then fix 18mm cladding the sill drip would not clear the cladding ? Thanks
Typically you will have to make minor changes like a new cill, you can get cill that fit over the current ones or make a change to something like stone or timber
Hi thanks where can you get sill covers from? The seem to be all I ternal ones I can find. To change the sill would mean taking out the windows as they are fixed with screws through the window and mess a lot up.
You didn't think cladding a house would be easy did you ? Even with a wall with no window, there is quite a bit of work and will require two people with and will probably need scaffold to be safe working from. You are going to need two people to hold any reasonable length of timber as trying to hold cladding and nail it by yourself is a real struggle. Cill covers and extenders are reeadily available http://toma24.com/categorylist/sills/exterior-window-sills
Hi thanks, yes understand, it's not the full house. There are small areas of rendering on certain parts, they are only 1800mm high and above a roof area.
Look up Rystix Timbacare Exterior Penetrating Oil to protect the Cedar, local builder I've done some work for uses it on his properties. Cedar still looks as good as the day it was installed 5 years on, unless you like the silver / grey colour!
Hi thanks I checked on the cill extensions, the link you gave to Tomo24 is in Poland, they are very cheap around £4 a cill! But postage is over £23 ? is there any uk based companies who do cill extensions and in upvc? Thanks