Old Siding Details

It is usually pretty easy to pick out.

Old siding details.

Dutch lap siding pattern. 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. 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. Wood siding has been around since there were trees.

You may also see splintering and splitting but the board is still intact. Lap siding boards are usually random in length and are shorter than 16 feet long. Popular in the late forties and fifties panels of aluminum siding were also made to look like clapboards. The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints.

With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it. So you can use your creativity. 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. Lap sidings were among the earliest types of finish siding.

True shiplap siding in its simplest most basic form. Also known as barn siding board and batten is an old classic when it comes to exteriors. For most of the housing market aluminum siding has been replaced by vinyl but it still covers many existing mid century homes. This is no uniform width to the boards.

Dutch lap is also know as cove lap and german lap siding. Shiplap siding milled into this pattern is sold in varying thicknesses. In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside.