Old Siding Details

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Old siding details.

Wood siding has been around since there were trees. Also known as barn siding board and batten is an old classic when it comes to exteriors. Lap siding boards are usually random in length and are shorter than 16 feet long. It s fire and insect proof won t rot and is easy to paint and clean.

True shiplap siding in its simplest most basic form. Shiplap siding milled into this pattern is sold in varying thicknesses. It is usually pretty easy to pick out. The design is made up of wide boards being placed together and then a thin piece of wood the batten placed to cover up the gap where the two boards meet.

With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it. This is no uniform width to the boards. The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints. Popular in the late forties and fifties panels of aluminum siding were also made to look like clapboards.

Dutch lap is also know as cove lap and german lap siding. Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths. In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside. Rustic siding 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.

3 8 lap 1 2 lap 2 shiplap 1 1 2 thick 3 shiplap 2 1 2 thick and 2 shiplap ev1s that includes bevels to give a 1 1 2 thick board similar to the v rustic beveled shiplap that we will show further below. When stained it is very easy as you can see the wood grain textures imperfections and even knots. Dutch lap siding pattern.