well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're gonna put this LP smartside siding on the
garden shed I'm building and guys I'll tell you what when I was up there doing the roofing you
would be surprised how much that you know roof kind of moves around a bit without the sides
actually being on and this here will stiffen it up immensely I'll show you what this siding stuff
looks like I just come back from Home Depot I picked up ten sheets that'll do the whole
garden shed and we're gonna install us today and they were 42 dollars a piece I'll show you what
these look like well here are the sheets here and these are just terrific these are 3/8 thick and
here's the rest in the back of my truck guys if you're going to do some some siding I think you
know for cost wise these are still pretty good and they overlap each other and they last a long time
I got one side of my garage done with this 15 years ago and it looked like brand-new now they
are primed all you have to do is paint them now I want to show you a little hack that I use when I
install these today and I'll show you these two little items right now okay no guys this is my
idea and I've been using this for a long time and a lot of people when they go to put the siding up
on a wall like a wooden wall of course you have to fight with it you know because you got to have it
come up to the top and you have to put something on the bottom so it doesn't sag down and of course
if you're doing it yourself some people like to put a board under there and then like a pry bar
and then step on it to raise the sheet up well I'll show you what I do guys just this two of
these and you can see on the screws are through them I just use ordinary construction screws
they're just temporary and all this is you can see they're just hollow thick wall I would say this is
about maybe more than a little bit more than a sixteenth of an inch thick and they're about one
inch each like four lengths and guys that's all I use and there tapered up both ends you know
so and you can see when the when the screws go in they kind of go flush up both ends guys these are
so easy to do I'm gonna show you out here I'm gonna get the first sheet cut because there's
a little bit of a 5 degree slant on the building and I'll show you how these work and how easy it
is just with two thick wall tubing one inch and it makes your life so much easier so let's go out in
the backyard let's take a look well let's take a look at the setup here here's the sheet here and
I've cut the top already and of course the best thing to do is to put a couple of blocks so I put
one here and I put one here so when I'm putting the sheet up you could see that it's just gonna
make an automatic stop for me here which makes it a lot easier and down the bottom I got one of
them pigs in their little round tubing and I'll put the other one in here and I'll show you how
it goes line here right straight across so from here up to the top is eight feet so I made this
level right straight across just take a little bit of space you can't have it binding right
there you go that's it now we just set the sheet on there line it up against the side
where we go okay guys first thing have to adjust my air pressure to put a tip
on here for the you can adjust in there but for the most part you have to do more
adjusting down the compressor so we'll put the first sheet on here and we'll
see if it goes into fire or not now I'll do that on the corner which is going to be
hidden anyways so I'll try that so I'll put the sheet up here let's take a look
it's just sitting on them two pins nice
not doing that wash you up to get a hammer now you got to get a nail so that's in there now well
that's way too powerful right straight through plus it's kind of all there anyways this is
16-inch right here on Center so I'll just go right off to the side a bit here that's still too deep
but I'll have to fill that and I'll raise this rate up because it's punching in way too heavy
now I can let it go and I gotta fill one in here but this one here is right on the right pressure
just by adjusting the thumb screw here to get it down so I'll finish putting this on let's take a
look well she's all done took about five four or five minutes put that on there you see I still
have them down on the bottom I just pulled them to a little dowels out move on to the next one
now you can see this hole is way that's gone on way too much I just get some latex caulking fill
that in and that's it so what you want really is you want to be like this pretty much on the flush
side like this here and that'll be fine and I'll show you what kind of nails I'm using well hope
you like that guys I don't know if it was very clear at all but I just give you a close-up shot
you can see that little yellow I don't touch it cuz I'll adjust it again a little yellow knob
here you just adjust it up for the nail to come up or just it down for the nail to go down and
that's that's pretty easy and you know it saves you from going back and forth the compressor to
adjust the pressure all the time works out pretty good now I do have the compressor set at 80 psi
so I'll try to remember that to keep it at 80 psi and the thumb will pressure adjuster does
a great job so here are the the nails here and I could have gone with the one and a half inch ring
shank but I thought you know what I'll go with the two inch they're a little bit thicker and one with
the spiral so two inch that's what I'm using and for the most part that's all you really need so I
like to spread the nails about roughly 10 inches apart all the way down all the way around on all
the studs and the nail gun sure does make it easier you could see how it would be kind of
tough to kind of manipulate everything have a nail in one hand now I did do this years ago but I had
some help you know you got to have somebody else there to help you because it's impossible you know
to try and hold everything and nail everything in I guess the pros can do it I can't so thanks
for joining me here today next time you're going to see all the building will be done in the LP
smartside and I'm going paint it and then I guess the only thing I'm going to show next probably
would be I guess putting in the door and I'm going to run some electrical from my little shed there
the Steel shed you can see all the way over under the ground and into the new one so we'll see how
we do with that so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before
well you're welcome to subscribe come back again guys let's have some more fun Cheers