23 May 2019

Using the laser level benchmarks, figured out (I sincerely hope!) the layout for the barn shingle siding.  The first four courses will have a 4²⁹/₃₂″ exposure, the next 11 courses will have a 5¹/₃₂″ exposure, the next 3 courses will have a 5″ exposure, and the top 4 courses will have a 5⅛″ exposure.  The reason for the varied widths is because the shingles need to line up perfectly with the bottoms and tops of the windows and the top of the garage door, plus be somewhat close to but no shorter than the bottom of the wall sheathing, and have each course as close as possible to 5″ wide.  Made up the storey board (literally a long board with the foregoing shingle exposures very carefully marked along one edge).  After cutting the 6″ Koma^® corner trim boards to their proper lengths, transferred the exposure markings from the story board to both edges of each corner, forgetting (until two days later) that painting the corner trim first would have been a great idea.