Having never worked with plywood, (Sheltered life) I need to ask if it is possible to drive screws into exterior grade plywood 18mm thick?
I want to attach some battens to it, onto which will go pvc cladding.
Would I perhaps be better off nailing the battens onto the plywood?
Steve............
Oh yes screws be fine
Mike C
dog-man wrote:
Use Spax or similar - will go straight in with a powered screwdriver/drill, no predrilling.
either predrill pilot hole or use thin screws. And be sure to use left handed screws on ply.
NT
Go on then - I'll bite: what's that all about??
David
Eh ? (curious !)
heh, I didnt think any of us lot would bite. Poor man :(
NT
On 14 Aug 2006 09:52:58 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@care2.com wrote: |And be sure to use left |handed screws on ply.
Ha! Ha!
The message from "dog-man" contains these words:
Yes - but screwing into the edge isn't good - it splits.
No, no, no. Only ever use left handed screws into the right hand end grain. If you use left handed screws into the left hand end grain the glue goes west.
R.
Doh! You have been using it back to front all these years!
Use screws..galvanised (Or similar) would be best as they are being used outside.
shokka
Remember to use a magnetised screwdriver bit with the 'n' pole nearest the screw ('s' pole if u r in the southern hemisphere.
shokka
Either. Its bloody tough stuff.
Wore out three bits on my screwdriver ramming 3" screws THROUGH it making a shower base..should have drilled pilot holes....
What the f*ck for, you prat?
Don't confuse the cat with facts.
It's another Drivel come to haunt us.
Instead of combis, it's lime mortar.
| |Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: | |> No, no, no. Only ever use left handed screws into the right hand end |> grain. If you use left handed screws into the left hand end grain the |> glue goes west. | |Remember to use a magnetised screwdriver bit with the 'n' pole nearest |the screw ('s' pole if u r in the southern hemisphere.
Ha Ha.
for humour. I assume you did work that out really. Would b worrying othewise.
NT
Alternatively, screw through the ply into the battens. Depends how thich the battens are.
MBQ
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