Installing Tar Paper Under Siding

The house will have a rain screen gap made of strips of pt plywood.

Installing tar paper under siding.

I am about to replace the weathered tar paper with two new layers of 15 felt before siding the house with cedar clapboards. I want to replace the tar paper but i can t find it at homedepot or lowes. Install all subsequent courses with the same overlap until the top edge of the paper is within 6 inches of the roof s peak. Staple down the tar paper.

I saw a new house with felt paper under the siding rather than tyvek. Our new build house has been standing without siding for two years. Working with a helper unroll the paper so it is about 2 inches below the sill plate and pull it taut. You want any water that does get behind the siding to run down and never be allowed to get near any wood.

Before applying roofing you ll need to cover the sheathing with roofing felt also often called tar paper most local codes call for using 30 pound felt. Check that it is level and aligned and drive staples or cap nails. Tack the end of the paper to the wall using a construction stapler. The walls are intended to dry to the outside.

Hold a roll of felt paper against the left edge of the wall with the top end of the roll aligned with the chalk line. Faq s acronym s terminology to tyvek or not to tyvek that is the question. If you will be attaching the building paper with cap nails use a chalkline to mark the sheathing with the locations of studs. Use tyvek over building felt under siding.

Position the next course of tar paper farther up the roof so that its lower edge overlaps the upper edge of the paper in the first course by 1 foot. We re in the coastal rainforest of southeast alaska very wet.