Ground siding is one of the most common ways of finishing the bottom of the building. The results from the facing of the siding with your own hands will strike you!
Facing the facade with siding: mount the frame
Siding installation is not possible without pre-installation of the leveling frame. For this task, the usual ceiling guides and profiles for drywall are well suited.
- It is also recommended to insulate the basement of the building, then proceed with the manufacture of the metal frame. As a heater can act, extruded polystyrene foam 50 mm with a warm lock. Seams are foamed.
The average pitch of the profiles is 0.5-0.6 m, but this value also depends on the size of the siding panels.
We get:
- The lower guides are attached to the blind by dowel-nails.
- At the top, the frame ends at the level of the first row of brickwork (in this case).
How to work with siding for facing houses?
The selected panel has a size of 450x1000 mm, looks like this:
- Siding is simply fixed with self-tapping screws (25 mm) to the frame. The bottom row is "tied" to the guide.
- You can use the basement siding for the entire wall.
- Note that the material can be attached to the wooden crate, especially when it comes to "bypassing" the drainage system.
- Many experts advise starting the masonry from the outer corners. After this, the panel is cut so that it can evenly enter the corner element.
- The adjacent panels easily enter the grooves, the laying should go from left to right and from bottom to top. Remember the dressing of joints: joints should not coincide.
- "Bypass" the pipes better so that they fall into the middle of the junction.
- When it comes to the doorway, the siding will need to be brought under the inner size of the opening.
- For windows, on the contrary, the niche is left a little wider than the window itself, the trim will cover the shortcomings.
- The finishing stage is the mounting of the upper bars with self-tapping screws.
Here's what you get before and after:
The result is excellent!
