Here are details of a project supplied to Andrew Edmondson who has kindly given permission to use as a case study.
Andrew selected Canadian Western Red cedar cladding.
Cedar is naturally durable, dimensionally stable and resistant to splitting.
The rich warm colours can only be achieved with Canadian cedar, the colour varies from board to board and over a boards length. Benchmark Timber only mill coastal grown old growth Canadian stock which tends to be darker in colour than interior faster growing trees.
Another option would have been to use UK grown cedar but this is not durable without treatment due to the sapwood content. UK grown cedar is also lighter in colour, quite knotty and long lengths are not readily available.
All of our timber cladding and decking is certified as coming from sustainable forests.
Three different size cladding profiles were used on his project.
The 100mm cover profile is not one of our standards.
Where non standard profiles are requested we would produce a CAD drawing from which we would ask for customer approval. Cutters would then be ground to these drawings.
On large projects we offer this service free of charge, on smaller projects there would be a small charge for the cutters.
The picture shows the milled cladding onsite ready to be installed.
This picture shows the battens at the corner.
Andrew has decided to but the cedar cladding together ate the corners. This can look great but careful planning is needed.
If horizontal cladding is fitted then the boards can be mitred at the corners but this is very tricky to achieve a good finish.
Another method of finishing the corner would have been to fit a 38mm square post and then but the cladding up to the post.
Two piece corners is another option, this fits over the cladding and has the advantage of ease of fitting. The cladding does not have to be trimmed accurately as it is covered by the corner trim.
Here Andrew has chosen hardwood windows.
The colour fits well with the western red cedar.
One half of the picture shows the battens before the cladding has been fitted.
Benchmark timber can mill planed square cedar up to 195mm wide for trim around windows and for soffits and other trim.
Here Andrew has fitted some of the narrow boards horizontally. This works really well at breaking up the large expanse of cedar cladding.
Using three different width of cladding on the vertical cladding also adds interest.
Three different size cladding profiles were used on his project.
The 100mm cover profile is not one of our standards.
Where non standard profiles are requested we would produce a CAD drawing as shown above from which we would ask for customer approval. Cutters would then be ground to these drawings. Please visit our Timber Cladding page for further details.
On large projects we offer this service free of charge, on smaller projects there would be a small charge for the cutters.
This is another profile which is 144mm wide with a 125mm cover. The shadow gaps are 20mm and the upstanding pieces which look like battens are 41mm. This can interlock with our wider Channel profiles (with a 20mm shadow gap) to give variation and add interest to a wall.
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