What are rusticated weatherboards?
Rusticated weatherboards for modern or traditional horizontal cedar cladding. Traditional rusticated horizontal cedar weatherboards are a derivative of the bevel back weatherboard and have a shiplap with a distinctive scalloped rebate allowing water to fall off.
What is James Hardie weatherboard made of?
fibre cement
Weatherboards can be made from natural timber, engineered timber or fibre cement nailed to timber frames or screwed on to light gauge steel frames. The bottom board is installed first then overlapped by the board above producing a weather-tight wall with attractive horizontal shadow lines.
What are the different types of weatherboard?
Weatherboards and Cladding Species
- Accoya. Accoya® is world leading high technology wood.
- Radiata Pine. Traditionally used cladding species and is good for paint quality.
- Western Red Cedar. WR Cedar is light, soft, scented and highly decorative timber with contrasting early wood and late wood bands.
- Yellow Cedar.
What nails do I use for weatherboards?
Use a minimum of 50 x 2.8mm plain shank nails for fixing to hardwood and 50 x 3.15mm annular grooved shank nails for fixing to softwood or equivalent gun nails. (Paslode Cladfast B20548 or similar). Nails shall be driven with care to avoid damage to face of boards.
What means rusticated?
: to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life. transitive verb. 1 chiefly British : to suspend from school or college. 2 : to build or face with usually rough-surfaced masonry blocks having beveled or rebated edges producing pronounced joints a rusticated facade.
How far must the fixing be above the bottom weatherboard?
Paragraph 9.4. 4.1 of E2/AS1 requires 32mm lap for non-rebated bevel-back boards with single fixing 10mm above top of lower board. The above results in nail fixings at 42mm from lower edge of weatherboard; in contrast to the relatively consistent on-site measurement of 37mm.
What is the difference between weatherboard and hardiplank?
James Hardie weatherboards are available in a range of thicknesses, profiles and textures. PrimeLine weatherboards are 9mm thick in a narrow style with machined profiles for different shadow lines. HardiePlank weatherboards are a wide style with smooth, wood grain and rough sawn textures.
Is James Hardie cladding good?
Like a protective layer or second skin on the outside of a home, James Hardie cladding is ideal in providing insulation, weather resistance and safeguarding homes from the harsh Australian natural elements.
What is the best type of weatherboard?
Builders generally prefer fibre cement weatherboards over natural timber weatherboards because they don’t bend or warp prior to installation, and also cut cleanly and require less frequent painting. James Hardie fibre cement weatherboards are also resistant to fire, rot, termites and damage from moisture.
What’s cheaper brick or weatherboard?
Weatherboard is cheaper than rendered brick. Rendered brick veneer needs a larger slab (recessed edge), then bricks are laid, then bricks are rendered, then render is painted (some render’s have colour mixed in so don’t need paint).
How much should Weatherboards overlap?
An overlap of 1 ½” to 2” (40mm – 50mm) is normally sufficient. Today, it is customary to fasten weatherboards with round wire nails.
Can you use a nail gun on Weatherboards?
Likewise, James Hardie LINEA™ Weatherboard (both direct and cavity fixed) responds well to the Framemaster using Impulse 65mm x 2.87mm stainless steel Ring D head nails. …