Fine Homebuilding
magazine
Essential design
and installation information
A home’s appeal depends a great deal on its
exterior paint or stain, brick and stonework, siding, trim, and
other details -- and it’s not just the type of finish that’s
important. It’s also how well the job was done. This first-ever
collection of Fine Homebuilding magazine’s most popular
articles on the subject provides you with ideas for choosing the
correct finishes for exteriors, plus solid how-to information
covering everything from installing vinyl siding, to building shutters to the much debated use
of PVC.
Written by the pros who actually do the work, these articles help
you to:
- Vinyl Siding Installation
- Create exterior-trim details that last
- Use modern materials that protect historic
trim
- Choose the best caulks that are flexible
and paintable
- Create an EIFS retrofit for leaky windows
- Match the mortar to the brick
- Learn why housewraps and building papers
fail
- Choose the best wood for clapboards
About the For Pros by Pros series
To get the best results when building or remodeling, you need advice
from the best professionals in the business. For Pros By Pros books
bring together the expert designers, builders, and remodeling pros
who have written for Fine Homebuilding magazine.
Introduction:
I successfully avoided vinyl siding for the
first eight years of my career as a carpenter. By that point, I was
pretty good at my job. Not a master by any means, but I could frame
roofs, lay out stairs and build custom cabinets. So when the boss
asked me to side a new house with vinyl, I did what good carpenters
do: I cut the pieces exactly and nailed them up tight. A job well
done...or so I thought until a few months later when the summer sun
hit the house.
The siding pooched and dimpled like the surface of golf ball. Turns
out that vinyl has what's called a high coefficent of expansion,
which means it expands and contracts a lot with changes in the
weather. You're supposed to cut the pieces a little short and not
sink the nails completely. All the vinyl on that house had to be
torn off and reinstalled.
Interior trim and finishes have to look good, but that's about it.
Outside, it's another story. Exterior work has to look good and
withstand the rigors of wind-blown rain, blistering sun and freezing
temperatures. It isn't work to be taken lightly -- a lesson I
learned the hard way. You'll want good information about how to do
things, and that's where this book can help.
Collected here are 15 articles from past issues of Fine
Homebuilding magazine. Written by builders from all over the
country, these articles represent the hard-won knowledge of
professionals who have learned from their mistakes. There's even an
article on installing vinyl siding. Wish I'd read that 20 years ago.
Kevin Ireton
editor in chief, Fine Homebuilding
Contents:
Introduction
1. Exterior Trim
Running Exterior Trim
Building an Ornate Cornice
Exterior-Trim Details That Last
2. Masonry
Synthetic Stucco
Flashing Brick-Veneer Walls
Installing Manufactured-Stone Veneer
Laying up Stone Veneer
3. Sheathing and Exterior Siding
Vinyl Siding Done Right
Installing Wood Clapboards
Working with Fiber-Cement Siding
Installing Horizontal Wood Siding
Rain-Screen Walls: A Better Way to Install Siding
Siding with Cedar Shingles
4. Wood Repair and Paint
Restoring Wood with Epoxy
Removing Exterior Paint
Credits
Index
Soft-cover, 8-1/2 x 11 in., 160 pages, with
color photos and drawings Published 2004
ISBN 978-1-56158-652-3
Exterior Siding, Trim
and FInishes
For Pros By Pros
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