Historic Siding And Boards

Lap siding refers to horizontal boards that overlap the next lower board so that they shed rainfall like the overlapping feathers of a duck.

Historic siding and boards.

You can still find beveled drop and other novelty siding at lumberyards but it s not always like the original. Distressed to simulate historic square logs. Wood siding has been ubiquitous with home construction for thousands of years. Our handcrafted pioneer log siding simulates rustic square logs.

Each piece of pioneer log siding is hand hewed sculpted distressed sanded and. Bevel siding and bungalow siding are 20th century versions that are generally resawn from boards producing random grain to obtain widths of 8 and more. Most of the time when i remove vinyl siding from a historic house i find wet spongy and rotted wood siding. Wood siding is the most common type of exterior cladding found on older historic homes and most is lap siding of some form or configuration.

Clapboard was also immensely popular and was sometimes called ship lap because it looked like the side of an old sailing ship. The overlap is what keeps water from getting between the boards. Traditional new england clapboard is cut radially from the log producing true vertical grain and up to 6 wide. Set your store to see local availability add to cart.

Clapboard is style of siding where the long boards are nailed horizontally or from end of the house to the other end of the end of the house. Newtechwood european siding system 4 8 in. Weatherboard siding is designed to function by each piece overlapping the piece below it. The rabbet on one piece will overlap the cove cut on the piece immediately below it.

When repairing or replacing historic siding take a sample to the lumberyard or sawmill for comparison. We hand hew and distress boards dramatically to transform any home or business into an historic look of the past. Plywood siding t1 11 48 00 in. Primed 4 oc v groove plywood siding panel.

Siding related products 0 344 in. From home as rustic as the log cabins built by earlier settlers to the grand georgian style mansionswood siding has played a pivotal role in its many shapes and forms. This is why it is important for all of the boards to have a uniform alignment. Clapboard siding makes its debut about the same time as board and batten siding as early settlers began to use sawmills to cut the tree logs into long planks or boards.

X 60 1 2 in. First vinyl siding doesn t allow the house to breathe. Inevitably the vinyl siding got some moisture behind it sometimes from rain seeping in and sometimes just from water vapor trying to escape the house. By the 1930s standard references listed no fewer than 28 different types of common horizontal siding.

Sometimes it s possible and usually cheaper to adapt a local product rather than have an exact match milled.