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weegieavlover
Hi All,
I am considering covering a garden wall - 1.5m high by about 8-10m long - in wood. When we did our back garden up we pointed the wall and removed the green algie/fungus and then repainted it white. However that was about 2 or 3 years ago and each year the algie/fungus keeps coming back and just annoys us. I think the reason is our side of the wall is great, however my neighbour has not done anything with there side and have loads of ivy and other climbing type plants covering their side so you cannot get anywhere near it to inspect it never mind repoint it. On top of it would mean cutting back all of this and that is something they (wife in particular) would be against, so my next option was to clad the all in wood.
So my thought was to do it a bit like flooring or brick work, where the joints are all randomly staggered and the wood would run horizontally across the wall rather than more traditionally up and down.
My concern when doing this would be gaps developing either in the vertical or horizontal joins of the wood. I seen a video on a ways to prevent some issues arising with the wood.
To prevent cupping - run 2 circular saw cuts about 1/2 the depth the wood along the length of the wood.
To prevent the wood from parting (at least on the vertical joins - use biscuits to join the wood together.
Now these seem like legitimate ideas and solutions however they were for a wooden wall that was internal and in the US and therefore not subject to the same weather conditions you get in Scotland and obviously my wall would be outside and open to the elements.
Just curious if anyone has any advice on this and how stupid an idea it is to do instead of the more traditional options of running the wood across the wall vertically or using featherboard instead.
Thanks
Col
I am considering covering a garden wall - 1.5m high by about 8-10m long - in wood. When we did our back garden up we pointed the wall and removed the green algie/fungus and then repainted it white. However that was about 2 or 3 years ago and each year the algie/fungus keeps coming back and just annoys us. I think the reason is our side of the wall is great, however my neighbour has not done anything with there side and have loads of ivy and other climbing type plants covering their side so you cannot get anywhere near it to inspect it never mind repoint it. On top of it would mean cutting back all of this and that is something they (wife in particular) would be against, so my next option was to clad the all in wood.
So my thought was to do it a bit like flooring or brick work, where the joints are all randomly staggered and the wood would run horizontally across the wall rather than more traditionally up and down.
My concern when doing this would be gaps developing either in the vertical or horizontal joins of the wood. I seen a video on a ways to prevent some issues arising with the wood.
To prevent cupping - run 2 circular saw cuts about 1/2 the depth the wood along the length of the wood.
To prevent the wood from parting (at least on the vertical joins - use biscuits to join the wood together.
Now these seem like legitimate ideas and solutions however they were for a wooden wall that was internal and in the US and therefore not subject to the same weather conditions you get in Scotland and obviously my wall would be outside and open to the elements.
Just curious if anyone has any advice on this and how stupid an idea it is to do instead of the more traditional options of running the wood across the wall vertically or using featherboard instead.
Thanks
Col