Open Joint Siding Installation

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Open joint siding installation.

Embody a modern aesthetic. Get the look you are after with the solution that offers design flexibility. The open joint method can be used with either board or panel siding. The first mechanically fastened water resistive barrier designed to maximize building protection without compromising design aesthetics in open joint claddi.

Specified for open joint applications. Architectural wall panel horizontal panel to vertical panel transition vertical joint. Natural forces impact how we design modern sheds and select the materials we use. This works fine most of the time but always add a few blobs of caulking inside the bottom lip of the top course for extra security.

Open joint siding provides extra layers of defense. Open joint siding isn t really a rain screen in the sense that most building scientists or our building code would describe one and the walls need to be detailed in a different way so that the layer behind provides all the water shedding details of a wrb layer but also gives the primary layer of protection we usually rely on cladding to. Our open joint siding is more than just a pretty sur face. The result is simple elegant and practical.

Those specifications call for a double layer of the material in areas near open joints in the siding. An open joint wood rain screen is a construction method that uses wood siding as the outer rain screen layer creates a wall cavity space between the back of the siding and the outer building envelope and has an open joint in the wood siding to allow for ventilation. About reveal panel system. The reveal panel system by james hardie can be utilized to create an effective modern durable panelized look.

A zip wall sheathing system is added over the building envelope as an air and water resistive barrier these wall panels install in fewer steps than a traditional housewrap so that the building is finished sooner. Where narrow siding is used such as the 4 inch cedar we used on figure 1.