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  1. 2nd November 2009, 09:57 PM #1
    danielm
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    Question Can I finish the Weatherboard below ground level?

    Hello Friends,
    I am in desperate need of some advise please assist.

    We had recently our house restumped, on one side of our house (Full Weatherboard construction) we had a concrete slab touching the lowest row of weatherboard and some of the bearers and joists were rotten and are replaced now.

    My concern is now the lowest row of weatherboard, which i did not fitted yet. I need to restore the 3 lower rows which i ripped off.

    My major question is, do i need to do some protection for the new timbers before I fill in the trench? And is it really good practice to put weatherboard below ground?

    The stumpers told me I should put some plastic and 2 layers of blue-cement sheets between all the wood and stumps before I fill the trench (approx 80cm deep) with soil again. Should i also make an arrangement for an airgap between cement sheets to weatherboard to allow air circulation down below to the stumps (TEK-System Concrete) and underfloor area?

    I got today the replacement weatherboards (treated pine) delivered. 3-Rows, approx 15m long each whereof the last row would be approx 50% below the old concrete slab.

    Is there maybe anything useful available at bunnings or mitre10?
    Every advise most welcome. Thank you! Daniel

    The below pics are taken before the stumpers started:



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  3. 2nd November 2009, 10:02 PM #2
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    Defintely don't put weatherboard below ground level!

    I'm not quite sure what you've got there, post a photo. A picture tells a thousand words!
    So many ideas........so little skill........
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  4. 2nd November 2009, 10:24 PM #3
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    here is one photo before the stumpers dug down further.
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  5. 2nd November 2009, 11:26 PM #4
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    Hi. It would help if you UPLOAD the pictures to this site rather than reference them on your PC. We can not see them.

    See

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  6. 3rd November 2009, 08:47 PM #5
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    He did.

    It's never a good idea to have weatherboard below ground level. Better to have the ground slope away from the house. I'd re-grade the land, if possible. That's what I did, with far retaining wall and proper drainage, to correct the original idjit's construction.

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  7. 3rd November 2009, 09:08 PM #6
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    Our builder let half a weather board just touching the ground and the white ants were up there and ate out a whole bay window frame and were into the ceiling within 3 months. It cost the builder a lot of money and delayed the completion of our renovation by about 3 months.
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