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With the new circular saw in hand things starting moving faster. I was using 45mm self-tapping screws with a mastic washer on them, which came from CladCo.
Technically speaking for corrugated cladding they recommend the 65mm screw with the much bigger and more flexible 'baz' washer, which gives a much better seal on the curvature of the profile, but they only do them in 65mm which would go straight through my battens and OSB and into the interior, and I didn't want to be bound to finding studs because a) you want your screw spacing to be aesthetically pleasing and b) you have to put your screws on the top of a corrugation (a hill not a trough) and this may not land on a stud.
The screws were slightly harder work than I thought but with a bit of practice they bit through the steel pretty well.
I did the gable end walls first, then the roof. Then the back wall, and saved the tricky front wall, with all the holes in it, for last.
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