Belly Band Siding

Maintain your siding keep it painted and paint the bottom edges.

Belly band siding.

I am using 1 2 plywood as furring strips. Incorporating belly bands is a very traditional and cost effective way to personalize your new home siding. I just put a bid in in a home that has t1 11 siding. Time to do a quick sample for the inspectors of the belly band.

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. My house is slowly going up. Sure enough there were same issues and you described. I had read up on the downside of this siding here in pacific nw.

Beauty boards can be intricate and lead to a nuanced install. On the general panel make your desired size adjustments such as the width height and depth as well as where the soffit will be placed in relation. January 11 2016 at 8 33 am reply. With the soffit placed use the select objects tool to select it and then click open object.

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. When the 3d molding line polyline is selected its name appears on the left side of the. If if somebody was going to install such a belly band it should have a bevel at the top i e it should be sloped at the top downward so that water which runs down the siding would more easily drop all the way to the ground. 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.

Bottom of siding water damage from incorrect installation of. Navigate to build trim 3d molding line then click and drag a line where the belly band should be. The builder likes to use a metal flashing where the siding transitions to boral trim of course but i am curious about the details. Place a soffit on the exterior side of a wall that you d like to see a belly band or trim piece on.

Creating a belly band manually create a cross section elevation of the side of the structure where you want the belly band to appear. But that appears to be asking a lot. It is important to select a quality siding company to ensure that belly bands are properly installed both from an aesthetic and performance standpoint. 37 thoughts on how to replace rotted t1 11 lp siding with a belly band darice.