Druim nan Darach

Very nice 

Like the minimal corner detail?

Lovely larch cladding - great to see the same corner detailing as to what is on our car port. Somewhat re-assuring that it is a good job well done.

Just now, Tennentslager said:

Very nice 

Like the minimal corner detail?

 

Thanks, when the joiner was fixing it, I did wonder what was going to happen at the corner as the T&G was exposed, but he cut a strip from the larch and I'm really pleased with it.

 

 

I thought cladding went vertically in Scotland and horizontally in England....or have I got that the wrong way round....?

Looks nice though!

Interesting.... ours is horizontal - and we are in the Scottish Borders.

 

On 11/08/2018 at 12:53, Square Feet said:

I thought cladding went vertically in Scotland and horizontally in England....or have I got that the wrong way round....?

Looks nice though!

 

Thanks, our supplier couldn't promise the longer lengths required for the gable end which will be partly clad and because I didn't want a joint in wood, decided to go horizontal instead.

Hi @Thedreamer

 

Can I ask whether you put battens / render board /CP board behind the cladding to provide a cavity and a waterproof later? If not, how are you waterproofing this section of the build?

Hi @laurenco

 

Sorry didn't catch a photo before the cladding went on.

 

Yes behind the cladding is the breather membrane, with battens attached to the studs this creates the ventilation gap.

 

Are you just about to clad with timber?

 

 

 

12 hours ago, Thedreamer said:

Are you just about to clad with timber?

 

Thanks @Thedreamer. We're just finalising the quote to clad in cedarwood. Our render guy is talking about CP / render boarding behind the cedar to make it weathertight, but if we can board straight to the batten, this will save a job. Is the breather membrane just the foil protector that comes wrapped around the TF?

 @laurenco The membrane itself makes the building watertight, however you are always going to get some water ingress if you have driving rain particularly at weak points such as studs. 

 

The cladding provides the first layer of defence and the membrane then just acts as a secondary barrier.

 

I don't really know enough to make a comment about how the render board works with cladding.

 

Our house will be rendered as well, but I decided on certain elevations where we are blasted with weather we have build a single course of dense concrete block which will have a render added on top.