Pole Barn with Wainscoting Corner Trim

[saghi]

I am building a metal sided pole barn that has wainscoting. What is the proper way to install the outside corner trim? I am having trouble finding how to do it reasonably weather tight where it meets the trim at top of the wainscoting. Can someone inform me how the junction of the upper wainscot trim and the outside corner trim should be? If possible, a close up picture would be great.

I haven't been able to find anything through google and all the pictures I've found don't show enough detail when zoomed in at this junction.

Thanks!

 

[lakeroadster]

On my barn the lower corner trim tucks up under the wainscot z-trim.

This photo shows the lower corner trim (Earth Brown) in place, but not the upper.



Here's one with the upper and lower corner trim in place

 

[saghi]

That is easy and makes sense. My corner trim is the same color from top to bottom (same as lower siding panel) so I somehow got it stuck in my head that it had to be one continuous piece. Splitting it up like that seems obvious now that I see it. Thanks!

 

[saghi]

Hmm... My wainscot Z angle is the light color of the upper wall metal and my corner trim is the darker color of the lower wall metal. If I do it the way shown above, I will have the lighter colored Z angle showing at the split in the corner trim. Does that make sense? I'm not sure if that will look right. It probably won't look bad but may be look odd. Is that still the correct way to do it in my case?

This picture below is not mine but is similar to my color scheme. The Z angle is the same color as the metal on top. Unfortunately, it's too blurry to see exactly what they did. It looks like they ran the Z angle all the way to the corner but cut a relief in the corner trim so the corner trim would sit over the Z angle. I thought of doing this but thought it would be pretty hard to do it accurate enough to not have huge gaps somewhere.

It seems that having the Z angle the same color as the lower wall panels would have allowed me to split the trim like lakeroadsters and still have the corner be continuously one color. I didn't do that, though. I already have the Z angle the same color as the upper panel....

Is there a better way for my case?

 

[swamp donkey]

Here's mine. Bottom part of corner trim cut to fit under the wainscot trim (Z- trim) and top corner trim rests on top.

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[MagKarl]

The intersections of pole bar trims are a challenge to make water tight and look good. On my corners the z metal is stopped short of the corner and the vertical corner trims are continuous. Looks kind of like saghi's attached photo.

 

[saghi]

Right now, lakeroadster and swamp donkey's way seems the best to me. Since I bought the Z angle to match the upper wall panel instead of the lower, I don't think it will look right if I do it that way. I think I'll have to do it like MagKarl unless someone points out a better way.

 

[NUTTSGT]

If you have any trim that you haven't used yet, you could take it back and swap it out for the upper metal colored corner trim.

 

[lakeroadster]

There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. All just depends on the end look you want.

When I ordered my barn I specified I wanted the corner trim to match the color of the steel it was attached to, but lot's of folks don't do it that way.

If you cut the Z-trim though, won't that be a place where driving rain can get under the siding?