Trimming Clorbond wall cladding

**7739ian** · 8th June 2010, 11:56 AM

G'day all,
I'm a new member but have been a reader for some time - now i need some advice please. I have an old asbestoes clad cottage which is looking fairly tired. I want to clad the outside walls with Colorbond sheet - from the bottom of the wall one sheet high to where i will fit a dado and leave the asbestoes sheet above intact. Thats the easy bit - any advice on how to trim the ends of the sheets on the corners? I was thinking a simple right angle trim using treated pine but it will be boxy and of course the valleys in the sheets will be open for spiders and rubbish. Any advice would be most welcome. Cheers, Ian

**mic-d** · 8th June 2010, 01:31 PM

Either butt the sheets up to a timber stop on the corner or order some flashing from somewhere like Stratco and cut to match the profile same as done for ridge capping...
Cheers
Michael

**7739ian** · 8th June 2010, 01:53 PM

I thought of the flashing but it still leaves the valleys open - but i the other tip to butt the ends up to a timber stop should work ok if a little bulky - better than my initial idea to make a tomber flashing. Thanks again.

Cheers, Iam

**mic-d** · 8th June 2010, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by 7739ian

I thought of the flashing but it still leaves the valleys open - but i the other tip to butt the ends up to a timber stop should work ok if a little bulky - better than my initial idea to make a tomber flashing. Thanks again.

Cheers, Iam

Nope, as I said, you cut it to match the profile the same as you would for ridge capping, so no gaps.
Cheers
Michael

**bollie7** · 9th June 2010, 11:36 AM

Sounds like you are planning on fitting the sheets horizontally ? Why not consider fitting them vertically? The problem of the hills an valleys almost goes away though it would mean either ordering the sheets in short lengths or cutting them yourself. use some zincalume angle attached to the wall studs at the bottom for the bottom edge of the sheet to sit on. top edge sits up agains the dado. Then you only have the corners to worry about. You can buy flashing premade for the corners or you could possibly even work the sheet spacing so the edge of one sheet goes over the edge of the other at the corner. This would depend on the sheet profile though. Another advantage of fixing them vertically is there are less horizontall edges for dirt to collect on.

regards
bollie7

**knicko** · 9th June 2010, 01:48 PM

This may not be what you want but i just used aluminium angle.
But it's only mini orb in my kitchen.

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