Installing Steel Siding on a Pole Barn, Trimming Windows, and Cutting Tools - Nibblers or Shears?

[Music] in this video I'm going to show you how I install my steel siding and some of those details I'll also show the few different tools that are used to cut the steel siding or what I found that works the best I'll also show you how I trimmed around my windows some of those details so keep watching so on this I'm just using one inch screws because I don't have any insulation behind my siding against my purlin so straight onto the wood and then I have my boss drill set at about ten on the clutch that seems to be about right right now and I don't think you'd want to use the impact driver for this the drill seems to work the best well if you're gonna use a base trim what i did is i prod these panels up first i left the bottom rolled screws out if you didn't want to use the base trim using these foam closure strips on the bottom what worked pretty good - at keeping insects and critters out so I'm doing that on the back side under my lean-to just because of the concrete I have poured already I thought it would just be easier and look better just to do it this way I've got my stack here this is for that end of the barn that's 32 feet deep so there's 10 sheets here that'll get me to 30 and then I got one more sheet there so that one's got to get ripped but this stack I'm going to I've marked all my holes for screws and I'm going to punch them so the screw starts easy and let me look at it from so this would be the bottom and you can see here that this lip is a little shorter than the other side and this is the overlap side see this lip comes all the way down and curls back up right there whereas this lip here it doesn't curl it's a little bit shorter and then also there's what's called the drain channel right here so this little Valley right there is a little deeper than the rest of them so when when this end overlaps this there's it leaves a little air space in there so the water can't slice it up and over not that important on the sidewalls but really important on a roof this side gets overlapped so as far as my screws what I'm gonna do is put them in the flats one there one there there and there then this end will be a little loose until the next sheet gets overlapped and it'll get screwed over here so what I have is a nail punch I'm going to punch that screw location instead of drilling it when you drill it you're gonna leave Oh some bare metal that could start rusting and then I'll do that for all my screw holes so I found that if you're just gonna make a straight cut across the panel that these big shears to rip a sheet lengthwise these air shears work much better than the hand shears there wasn't enough flex in the sheet and then when you got a notch out for a window I used an air nibbler to go across and it did that so I can make a little bit of a hole in the corner to get this shear started to go the other way the nibbler is just real slow [Music] so you can see that those shears worked a lot faster I considered house wraps and the whole barn but decided that I didn't think it was really worth the expense to do so I had a lot of this synthetic rough felt leftover so I really just wanted to protect around my window openings in case any water did get behind the steel siding in those areas so I just put that up where the windows were and then I would trim it out just like I would with house trap on the house then I just installed the window like you would and you know any building just leveled it off and be able to plan job all the way around then use the sticky window flashing material and I sealed it off all the way around I used a piece of drip edge first on top of the window to help direct in the water that would get behind the siding there was so much wind noise in this recording that I'm whisking out the voiceover it Here I am just explaining how I use that drip edge and then I started with the J channel along the left side of the window and I don't know if you could see but I I made a miter cut at the bottom of it and then this piece is notched out and it goes behind that minor cuts almost like a nice mitered finished corner then I stick the next piece down below and then I put that piece up above the window first and then I'll slide the J channel all the way across tit and I've made a little tab on the end of that J it'll fold down into the J channel on the left and it also has that nice mitered corner on both sides so it makes for a nice finished mitered corner like a picture frame corner this is the hardest piece to put in you can see that I I think I added a screw here just to kind of hold it so wouldn't fall Here I am I put that screw there just hold it there so I could get back up and get it worked in and just about every sheet I just double-check it with the level just to make sure I'm not off you want to make sure you end up with every sheet nice and plumb I will have another video coming out of how I trim the garage doors subscribe to the channel thanks for watching and leave me comment let me know what you think of this color you

Channel: Country Family Homestead

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Id: QS8UKDUAldU

Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 17 2019