Instructions / Assembly
Table Of Contents
- 1) SYSTEM & INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
- 2) ESTIMATING REQUIRED SILVERMINE MATERIALS
- 3) TRANSPORTING, STORING & HANDLING
- 4) RECOMMENDED TOOLS & EQUIPMENT
- 5) OTHER MATERIALS
- 6) PREPARING FOR INSTALLATION:
- 7) FASTENING
- 8) CUTTING
- 9) INSTALLING INITIAL COURSES:
- 10) SUBSEQUENT COURSES (WORKING YOUR WAY UP THE WALL)
- 11) SUPPLEMENTAL FLASHING & TRANSITIONS
- Step Flashing Defined
- Flashing & Installing Outside Corners
- Flashing & Installing Inside Corners
- Flashing Vertical Transitions
- Flashing Horizontal Cladding Transitions with Stone below
- Flashing Horizontal Cladding Transitions with Sills below
- Under Openings (Trim removable, Sills or Panels Below)
- Sills Under Windows w/out Removable Trim
- Under Fixed Trim Situations (trim not removable, tight eaves, frieze boards, etc.)
- Over Trimmed Openings
- Flashing Soffit Terminations
- Flashing & Installing Light and Electrical Boxes
- Flashing & Installing Vents
- 12) CARE & MAINTENANCE
- 13) DEALING WITH COMPLIMENTS
- APPENDIX A - STONE ESTIMATION SHEET
- APPENDIX B –DRAWINGS
- Fig. B-1 Flat Panel
- Fig. B-2 Initial Course Over Foundation Wall Base
- Fig. B-3 Initial Course Over Water Table Trim
- Fig. B-4 Outside Corner w/ Step Flashing
- Fig. B-5 Inside Corner w/ Step Flashing
- Fig. B-6 Vertical Transition w/ Step Flashing
- Fig. B–7 Panels Below Siding
- Fig. B–8 Panels Below Trim
- Fig. B–9 Sills Below Siding
- Fig. B-10 Panels/Sills Below Openings w/ Removable Trim
- Fig. B-11 Sills Below Window w/out Removable Trim
- Fig. B-12 Panels Under Fixed Trim
- Fig. B-13 Initial Course Above Trimmed Openings
- Fig. B-14 Panels Below Soffit
- Fig. B-15 Electrical & Light Box Installation
- Fig. B-16 Vent Installation
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11) SUPPLEMENTAL FLASHING & TRANSITIONS
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Step Flashing Defined
Silvermine’s patented integrated flashing system is designed to form a shingle-like pattern, much like that of a
shingled roof. In the case of roofs, continuous flashing against a sidewall is one way to install a roof, but it’s
not the correct way. It may seem as if a single piece of flashing would offer more protection than many pieces
of step flashing, but it doesn’t work that way. Once even a small section of single flashing or shingling is
pierced, a leak will occur. Each additional rain adds water, and before you know it, you’ve got rotted wood. In
the long run step flashing will do a better job of preventing water leaks as step flashing redirects water back
onto the shingle. Even if one piece of step flashing fails, the flashing and shingle below will start the process
over again.
Step flashing is the process of applying a shingle, then flashing the edge/transition, applying the next course of
shingles above it, then flashing the edge/transition and repeating the process. There are many articles on step
flashing roofs. The concept for Silvermine is the same with respect to all vertical (e.g., across courses)
transitions.
Flashing & Installing Outside Corners
Use Fig. B-4 Outside Corner w/ Step Flashing in conjunction with these instructions.
If there is an outside corner, ALWAYS start at the corner of the course you are working before installing flat
panels.
• Apply construction adhesive to the initial flashing
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• Align two pieces of a matched corner pair on leveling board for the starting corner.
• Adjust the pieces to fit snugly against the corner without gaps in the offset overlaps where the two pieces fit
together. (Sometimes the corners of the wall are not perfectly square. Use composite shims, if needed, to
compensate for slight variations of the wall.
• Press pieces in place, ensure corner panels contact the adhesive, that the corner panels are square and level
in both directions and pieces then fasten corner panels to wall
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• Cut and adhere a piece of SAF over the integrated corner flashing, covering the exposed corner. DO NOT
SCREW through this. FAILURE TO DO THIS FOR EACH AND EVERY COURSE WILL EXPOSE THE
BUILDING TO WATER AND COULD LEAD TO DAMAGE.
• For each subsequent course continue this process of installing a course and then flashing.
Flashing & Installing Inside Corners
• Use Fig. B-5 Inside Corner w/ Step Flashing in conjunction with these instructions.
• Measure from last installed flat panels to the inside corner on both sides.
• Miter two flat panels slightly less than 45° to the required lengths to fabricate the inside corner.
• Dry fit the mitered pieces and trim/grind mitered edges until you are happy with the fit. It may be helpful to
bevel the sharp angles of the miter from the back of the panels where the mitered edges mate to allow the
mitered edges of the face of the panels to fit tightly together, and the corner to be square.
• Apply construction adhesive to the underlying flashing as per Section 8.
• Position the mitered flats on the leveling board/water table.
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