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Thanks for this. Any it was easy enough to remove I guess? Good shout on the painting of the battens black. Did you also use a black UV membrane too?

Hi there! So these prices are per 3m length - so a 60mm wide length are £8.19 +VAT each, so that makes the lm price £3.27/lm including VAT. I've had a good shop about and that seems a good deal! Beats our local timber merchant anyways. However, the timber arrives bare. Did you guys treat the timber before fixing it? Ideally we want it to naturally silver and don't want to alter the colour of it - so I wondered about using a clear timber treatment like this: https://www.screwfix.com/p/sika-wood-preserver-clear-5ltr/47030 Thanks all - appreciate the replies.

Hi all, Firstly - thank you all for pulling together this thread, it's full of really useful content! So I'm currently planning to clad the top half of the front of newly extended property and having read through this and other useful threads, I think I'm about there! However, the only thing we're undecided on whether to go with an open-faced batten cladding, or a closed face T&G type board which replicates a similar shadow gap style. To be honest the open-faced batten looks soo much better, but our biggest concern is insects, wasps etc taking up home behind the cladding. Having read and seen the amazing pictures which a few of you have shared in recent years, has anyone had any issues with this? Particularly interested to hear from both @GaryM and @ToughButterCup. Also - does anyone have any experience of using Timberulove to source the timber from? Currently swaying between these two products: https://www.timberulove.co.uk/products/siberian-larch-shadow-gap-cladding-a-grade-28-mm-thickness/?attribute_dimensions=28+mm+x+95+mm+x+3000+mm+-+£11.12 https://www.timberulove.co.uk/products/siberian-larch-fencing-elements-a-grade-battens-28-mm-thickness/?attribute_dimensions=28+mm+x+60+mm+x+3000+mm+-+£8.19 Any advise around completing a project like this would be much appreciated. 🙂 Thanks, Stew NB: And for what it's worth @GaryM - we think the render looks amazing!