Belly Band Siding

On the general panel make your desired size adjustments such as the width height and depth as well as where the soffit will be placed in relation.

Belly band siding.

Sure enough there were same issues and you described. I just put a bid in in a home that has t1 11 siding. Incorporating belly bands is a very traditional and cost effective way to personalize your new home siding. Belly bands can be used both at the base of the building in lieu of the water table or at any other horizontal material change on the building.

Place a soffit on the exterior side of a wall that you d like to see a belly band or trim piece on. Maintain your siding keep it painted and paint the bottom edges. Time to do a quick sample for the inspectors of the belly band. But that appears to be asking a lot.

January 11 2016 at 8 33 am reply. In the back it is two stories and there will be a 12 belly band of boral trim at the floor level with hardi artisan siding above and below. If if somebody was going to install such a belly band it should have a bevel at the top i e it should be sloped at the top downward so that water which runs down the siding would more easily drop all the way to the ground. Creating a belly band manually create a cross section elevation of the side of the structure where you want the belly band to appear.

Navigate to build trim 3d molding line then click and drag a line where the belly band should be. Beauty boards can be intricate and lead to a nuanced install. Bottom of siding water damage from incorrect installation of. With the soffit placed use the select objects tool to select it and then click open object.

Lap siding or clapboard is installed with 3 to 6 inch exposure and either terminates into corner boards at the outside corners or is mitered. Time to do a quick sample for the inspectors of the belly band. The builder likes to use a metal flashing where the siding transitions to boral trim of course but i am curious about the details. I am using 1 2 plywood as furring strips.

When the 3d molding line polyline is selected its name appears on the left side of the. Using the select objects tool click to select the 3d molding line. It is important to select a quality siding company to ensure that belly bands are properly installed both from an aesthetic and performance standpoint. I had read up on the downside of this siding here in pacific nw.