Historic Wood Siding Profiles

Victorians used a horizontal fancy siding design for the first or the first and second floors with a fancy shingle pattern.

Historic wood siding profiles.

There are many features that make wood siding of primary historical importance to your building. An extensive catalog of wood siding profiles is in a book of standard patterns by the wwpa and the wood siding profiles shown here are adapted from that resource cited just below. In the wwpa s siding profile catalog the association gives precise measurements that permit millers to produce these standard siding profiles. The tools used geographically specific craftsmanship techniques types of clapboards and how they are manufactured and installed the profiles decorative edging and patterns of application that make historical wood siding worthy of preservation.

We have vendors that specialize in reclaimed historic siding including clapboard shake and. Sometimes highlighting the remaining wall space. Rustic siding is a broad term often applied to several types of siding milled to present an appearance much more like timber than their actual thickness. Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths.

Mostly in 6 inch these and other patterns may be run up to. They range from hand split clapboards of short lengths with feather edged ends shown here to pit or mill sawn boards which can be beveled rabbeted or beaded. The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints. For preservationists historic home aficionados and home remodelers that specialize in historic home renovations authenticity is key and this means sourcing the right type of siding from the right era.

Historical wood siding product offerings. This planning process is a sequential approach to the preservation of historic wood frame buildings.