Shera planks

[blackcab]

The company I work for is building a house, and the entire outside is Shera planks. I turned up on the job site and 90% of the planks had been fitted. My first thought was, "Oh My God, What Have They Done."

The entire building has been fitted in the same way. Now I'm used to the boards being fixed through the overlap, so the fixings are hidden. In this case the architect and the site supervisor swear blind that if you do that with 200mm wide boards they will crack where they are fixed.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs it's not going to be changed now, so I'm waiting to see how the boards look with every hole filled and sanded.

Here's some examples of what I saw:

(Sorry, the pictures have been rotate 90 degrees after uploading. The boards run horizontally, not vertically).

Edited September 5, 2015 by blackcab

[EmptyMind]

Omg that's really bad

[Anthony5]

Looks awful now, will look even more awful when the holes are filled.

How they gonna properly sand that many holes?

Any chance that the architect and site supervisor were actually som tam sellers until a few days ago?

[blackcab]

Looks awful now, will look even more awful when the holes are filled.

How they gonna properly sand that many holes?

Any chance that the architect and site supervisor were actually som tam sellers until a few days ago?

I guess the answer is one at a time. It's not exactly a small house either.

Edited September 5, 2015 by blackcab

[Anthony5]

Looks awful now, will look even more awful when the holes are filled.

How they gonna properly sand that many holes?

Any chance that the architect and site supervisor were actually som tam sellers until a few days ago?

I guess the answer is one at a time. It's not exactly a small house either.

Haha, for sure one at the time.

I've never seen a Thai who sanded a single hole properly, lets stand thousands of them.

I hope you don't have to look at it every day when it's finished.

[blackcab]

I won't have to see it too often. It's for company customers to spend a few days in the countryside relaxing while they mull over their potential purchases.

[Crossy]

Ouch!! That is just too awful for words.

Just for contrast and not wishing to rub it in to our OP (he's already seen these photos), here is what Shera can look like.

Our Shera was siding fixed using an air-nailer which punched the fixings below the surface leaving a tiny hole to be filled before paint. The soffits were also nailed but this time onto a lightweight steel frame, nothing has come loose yet.

The siding planks are the 150mm version fixed through the overlap.

[inzman]

What an abomination! The workers obviously have never worked with shera before. In Thailand this kind of work is all too common. You need to be on site 24/7. I would never accept this. Geez

[kannot]

get a screwdriver and see if they have also used a power screwdriver to tighten them as they usually go beserk until whatever the screw should be holding onto rotates and rotates not gripping it at all, In which case remove all, enlarge the hole of the board with a countersink bit slightly and insert a fatter self tapper

Edited September 8, 2015 by kannot