Exterior & Finish Carpentry

Stone-Column Skirting

Horizontal skirting boards in raw, unstained wood beneath a deck, running past a tall stacked-stone chimney and stone porch columns with a cable-rail deck above.
PLATE 02 — Stone-Column Skirting
Horizontal skirting stained a warm brown on a second house, set tight against a cedar post below a composite deck rim, with an even reveal gap between boards.
PLATE 02 — Stone-Column Skirting
Stone porch columns with stained horizontal skirting boards run between them, cable-rail deck above, house still under construction with a mulched bed at grade.
PLATE 02 — Stone-Column Skirting

What happened

The call

Skirting runs horizontal below the deck, boards returning tight to the stone column instead of stopping short of it.

Unstained, the boards read pale and raw. Stained, they go warm brown, and the reveal line between boards stays even all the way down.

No fastener shows on the face — whatever holds each board sits behind the one above it.

Scope
Horizontal skirting run below a deck, returning tight to a stacked-stone column
Fastening
No fastener heads on the face — the run reads as one plane
Finish
Stained; shown here both unstained and finished

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