Historic Siding And Boards

By the 1930s standard references listed no fewer than 28 different types of common horizontal siding.

Historic siding and boards.

Composite norwegian board siding in roman antique 14 piece model uh46 16 at 14 799 00 bundle 799 00 bundle delivery unavailable. Set your store to see local availability add to cart. 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. This is why it is important for all of the boards to have a uniform alignment.

Newtechwood european siding system 4 8 in. Most of the time when i remove vinyl siding from a historic house i find wet spongy and rotted wood siding. X 60 1 2 in. Clapboard was also immensely popular and was sometimes called ship lap because it looked like the side of an old sailing ship.

Plywood siding t1 11 48 00 in. 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. Traditional new england clapboard is cut radially from the log producing true vertical grain and up to 6 wide. Sometimes it s possible and usually cheaper to adapt a local product rather than have an exact match milled.

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. 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 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. We hand hew and distress boards dramatically to transform any home or business into an historic look of the past.

When repairing or replacing historic siding take a sample to the lumberyard or sawmill for comparison. The overlap is what keeps water from getting between the 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. Our handcrafted pioneer log siding simulates rustic square logs.

You can still find beveled drop and other novelty siding at lumberyards but it s not always like the original. Wood siding shake wood siding 4 inch siding 1 in. Weatherboard siding is designed to function by each piece overlapping the piece below it. Distressed to simulate historic square logs.

First vinyl siding doesn t allow the house to breathe. The rabbet on one piece will overlap the cove cut on the piece immediately below it. Primed 4 oc v groove plywood siding panel. Lap board comes in a variety of profiles.

Each piece of pioneer log siding is hand hewed sculpted distressed sanded and.