My house is slowly going up.
Belly band siding detail.
I am using 1 2 plywood as furring strips.
How to replace rotted t1 11 lp siding with a belly band.
Navigate to build trim 3d molding line then click and drag a line where the belly band should be.
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Belly bands also referred to as beauty boards are a decorative trim piece that stretches horizontally across a home s facade.
Have water damage at the belly band.
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Belly bands can be used both at the base of the building in lieu of the water table or at any other horizontal material change on the building.
Time to do a quick sample for the inspectors of the belly band.
But it is that little detail maintain it that appears to be lost on the part of many most home owners.
By brandon whitmore.
It s very common in sacramento one of the most common areas of exterior water damage to wood trim occurs when a horizontal piece of wood is nailed to a wood surface on many two story buildings in sacramento there is a horizontal board that divides the upper and lower story.
Belly bands are an excellent way to boost the aesthetics and curb appeal of your house siding.
Using the select objects tool click to select the 3d molding line.
With the level of detail on those buildings that siding should take in the range of 10 12 man hours per square to install and detail properly.
September 3 2015 september 11 2017 by brian.
When the 3d molding line polyline is selected its name appears on the left side of the.
Your belly band does.
Beauty boards are most often paired with horizontal lap siding traditional hardieplank.
My wife and i live in the beautiful north west near portland oregon.
Lap siding or clapboard is installed with 3 to 6 inch exposure and either terminates into corner boards at the outside corners or is mitered.
However this problem can be accellerated or accented if one decides to put a belly band i e horizontal siding along the base of the structure at the bottom of the siding with a 90 degree.
This is sometimes referred to as a belly band.
Creating a belly band manually create a cross section elevation of the side of the structure where you want the belly band to appear.
In the back it is two stories and there will be a 12 belly band of boral trim at the floor level with hardi artisan siding above and below.
Bottom of siding water damage from incorrect installation of.
The builder likes to use a metal flashing where the siding transitions to boral trim of course but i am curious about the details.
It will decay if it isn t maintained.
When we bought our first house last year we discovered during the rainy season that we had soft spots along the bottom 5 inches of our siding.
I ll bet that there aren t that many hours into the siding you have pictured.
