dwcole7 Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Needing some help again. As I am working on this Old Farmhouse. I have to keep expenses down, I was going to try using card board/ cereal boxes for the clap board siding. I did a test one, but I have some of them lifting after I applied the paint. How do those that have been using these do it? Here is my sample, I applied the glue directly to the foam core and then applied the cardboard. But, as you can tell the edges that overlap are lifting up. Any ideas how to make this work so it looks like wood without the bumps. Thank you!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamom Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 MINE DOESN'T BUCKLE QUITE THAT MUCH. ONCE IT DRIES IT LAYS BACK FLAT. GOOD LUCK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-defunct account- Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 How watered down is your paint? I'd let it dry and see if it corrects itself. If not, try another tester with paint that you either don't add any water to at all, or let air dry a bit first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwcole7 Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 Thank you ladies. No water added to the paint. There is a shine because I used the crackle medium on top of the black after it was dry. And the picture shows it all dry. How does anyone apply the glue to the "boards" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamom Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I apply a thin layer of aileene's glue over the entire back, maybe that keeps it from buckling up. Once you get these finished the6 look.as good as their wood counterparts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 With the uber thin wood siding strips from GL I run two beads of gluealong the wall I'm going to lay the strips on and do that with every row, with the lower bead along the top of the siding strip in the preceding row. I lay a sheet of waxed paper on top and weight it with a stack of heavy books overnight; the thin wood also forms ripples with the fresh, wet glue, that go away as the gllue dries. Once the glue has dried I paint the siding, and some of it ripples again; and flattens out again when it's dry. If you look realy closely at real old wood clapboard siding you will see there is slight rippling along some of the boards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennymoomeow Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Do you have blow drier or heat gun handy? Try giving it a blast of hot air ot help it dry faster so it doesn't have a chance to get saturated and buckle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellee Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I don't know if this would help or not but what about painting the strips first, letting them dry then glueing them down. Or paint both sides and let them dry then glue them down. I think I read that somewhere but not sure.... Let us know what happens. I was going to do cereal box siding on one of the rehabs. Kellee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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