Installing vertical wood siding with a rain screen
My partner and I are building a home and we’d like to use vertical pine shiplap siding with a rain screen. Our framing is 24″ o.c.
It seems like the options for a rain screen behind vertical siding are: 1.) install vertical furring strips at each stud and then overlap them with horizontal strapping, 2.) install diagonal furring strips, 3.) use one of those rainscreen products like SlickerMax that gets installed on top of the sheathing, 4.) install those corrugated plastic strips horizontally and then put 1x strapping on top of that at the same orientation.
I’m leaning toward using diagonal strapping, but I haven’t found a lot of examples of other folks doing that. Here’s my rookie questions:
-How do options 1, 3, and 4 provide enough of a nail base for wood siding?
-Relatedly, are rainscreen mats only an option for vertical siding when the sheathing is thicker than usual? We’re using 7/16 ZIP, and I don’t see how that would be enough to hold the siding on.
-Has anyone here used diagonal strapping for a rain screen with vertical siding? Any tips for a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing?
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This came up on GBA, you can just use horizontal furring for the rain screen. It ends up the screen is not for "rain" so much as water vapor and very small amounts of moisture, it will dissipate fine with horizontal furring. Note that I am just repeating something I read on GBA, have not put this into practice myself.