Sun room timber cladding #1

[ProDave]

Progress moves on slowly.

 

The first wall of the sun room has been clad in timber.  The easiest wall, with just the big sliding door.

 

 

This might not be everyone's idea of timber cladding.  But we were both agreed we don't like untreated timber left to go silver / grey, mainly because it usually does not do so evenly.  And we were agreed we don't want it stained / treated in some shade of orange.

 

So it is painted.  It took a while to choose the colour and then a while to find a source.  The trouble was we wanted the walls of the sun room (and other garden stuff) painted the same colour as the decking and steps.  If you start looking at the very few options of both paints in stock colours, you have a choice of brown or grey. We wanted neither.

 

In the end this paint came from the big orange DIY shed where you can get a variety of different paints for different uses, in a wide range of colours mixed in the shop. so we chose "Willow Green"

 

Because it was being painted, the choice of what timber was not a big issue, no point paying for some fancy expensive timber and then painting it.  So this is cheap softwood treated "sarking" board sold in 100 and 150mm widths and in this case 22mm thick.

 

Each plank painted with it's first coat of paint before being fitted and then a second coat after it was on.

 

The area under the door to the left of the steps will be clad later.  My philosophy is never cut a load of short lengths from a full length of timber.  Cut all the rest of the long lengths first, and then cut the short lengths from the leftovers.  So as and when suitable leftovers become available, the short bits will get done.

 

And the very left hand plank is missing as that forms the corner so won't get fitted until the back wall is clad and that corner ready to be detailed.

[ProDave]

After what seems ages, I fitted the last upper boards today, painted them with their top coat of paint, and then dropped the rest of the scaffold from around the sun room.  So now the other 2 sides are visible

 

 

 

Just the bits under the windows to clad now, that are easier now the scaffold has gone.

[ProDave]

South elevation finished, apart from making a permanent "platform" in front of the cat flap and some steps down for the cat......

 

[ProDave]

That's the cladding of the sun room now completed.

 

 

 

[Bonner]

Looking good but where’s the cat slide gone?

[ProDave]

12 minutes ago, Bonner said:

Looking good but where’s the cat slide gone?

There is now a platform just outside the cat flap, and another level with the bottom of the cladding.  The cat has to jump.

[ETC]

Looks lovely but I’d have preferred it painted red - a deep blood red not the post box red - to make it stand out more. Looks a bit too deferential for my taste.