Our joiner is making scribers to fill these gaps.
A scriber is a long, vertical piece of wood shaped to fit:
Above: A new scriber has been inserted to fill the gap between the vertical wooden post and the weatherboards on the bay front of our villa.
Of course, there is still a tiny tiny gap between the scriber and the weatherboards - making something that fits within fractions of a millimetre isn't possible!
Apparently this will be filled with a product called "No More Gaps" before it's painted.
A quality finish
The joiner's doing an outstanding job of providing a quality finish. He's added a lip to the scriber, which matches the lip on the window frames.
To show the difference, here's the "before" photo, with plain vertical posts:
And here's the "after" photo with the new scribers, complete with lip:
Making and fitting a scriber of this quality isn't a quick job: it's taken the joiner the best part of the day to make one scriber. And the photo above has two scribers in it, so it's going to take a while for him to finish the job I reckon!The quicker solution
The quicker (and probably cheaper) solution would be to just insert lots of little plugs into each of the gaps.
The pic below from the Bungalow & Villa catalogue shows the plug that they stock for this.
Above: Rusticated weatherboards plus a rusticated weatherboard plug - from Bungalow & Villa.Image Credit: Bungalow and Villa.
When I was browsing the Bungalow & Villa catalogue, I learnt that the weatherboards on our house are called "Rusticated Weatherboards". I'd been calling them "scalloped"... oops, wrong!
Other styles of weatherboard include "Bevelback" and "Shiplap".
You learn something new every day huh! Especially when you're renovating an old house :)
No comments:
Post a Comment