fixing gib board to walls

here it shows 3 extra blocks fixed to studs to pull the gib in tight to the gorilla grip glue, this stops the gib from bowing out in future.

gibing around doors

first we fixed the piece of gib to the wall and over the door, we then went behind the gib and cut from the back down each side of the door way, we then cut it at the top, finished product as above.

starting the inside

we first went round the house straightening studs, and fixing bottom plates to the floor, we then made sure that all nogs,studs etc where flush so that when the GIB goes on it would sit nicely.

we started with the lounge first as it is the biggest area to cover we used the longer 6m sheets to do this area making sure it was staggerd and back block so joins are tight.

fixing corner soakers

fixing weatherboards with 162mm spacings

putting up batterns to fix weather boards

Putting up the weatherboards

we put the cavity battens up,The first thing that happend was we set up a story rod to get the right heights so that weatherboards would be even the whole way round the house, we marked where the story rod met then ran a chalk line along and pinged it, this is to match the cedar boards upto.
we had to make sure that there wasnt a join on top of each other  it had to be atleast 2 full weatherboards above, we used mitre joints throughout the joints this is to ensure that they hold for longer than just butting them up, each weather board had to be 162mm up from the below board, we came into a bit of trouble when we started following another line that had been put there by accident we then had to cut the nails out of the back of the weather board with a hack saw blade we took about 4 boards down and redid them, we also had to paint where we had cut to ensure that you couldnt see the joint or the weather wont take to it as easily. the spacings of the nails where 42mm up from the bottom of the weatherboard we had speacial nail plates which stopped us from putting smiley faces in the cedar board, we pre drilled then nailed. we also used a plumb with a string line on it to fix all the nails in a straight line. we used diamond head stainless steel nails.