Old Fashioned Siding

Board and batten siding and reverse board and batten.

Old fashioned siding.

If you decide to install shiplap siding vertically be sure to bevel cut the ends so water is directed to the outside. Plain board siding also called clapboard siding. Both metal siding types often were manufactured with a thin lining of foam designed to increase the insulation value of the siding. Clapboards are the old new england staple.

My wife and i are blessed to own a victorian home ca. Plain lap siding beveled to be thinner at one edge viewed from the end grain. One of the simplest and earliest styles of wood lap siding used flat sawn boards of constant thickness that overlapped in rows known as courses. Aluminum and steel siding became popular in the 1950s and 60s as a cost effective choice to cover deteriorated wood siding.

This style of siding first originated in sweden as well as norway. That was the last i had thought about hardboard siding until my father mentioned the product and i was very surprised to find out he had used it on the addition to his old house during the 70s. This type dates to the 1930s or earlier. It consists of boards.

As with many old houses we use the back door as the primary door since it is adjacent to the driveway. Unlike flat grain siding cut from stock lumber ward s clapboards are produced using a unique radial sawing process similar to traditional rift sawing. Ship lap shiplap siding is a type of drop lap siding with tight joints similar to tongue and groove but instead of a fitted groove it overlaps the next board usually by 1 2 to 3 4. Types of old house siding.

Asphalt building siding became a popular building renovation alternative to painting weathered or rotted wood clapboard or wood shingle siding as early as the 1930 s becoming popular in the 1940 s and the 1950 s in north america where it was used both for low cost housing and for covering the deteriorated exterior walls of older homes. When milled with an unplaned face it s quite rustic. Class action lawsuits resulted and the manufacturers ended up paying a lot of money for siding to be replaced on homes. 1880 that has the old fashioned wooden siding commonly referred to as 105 weatherboard.

Beveled and rabbited siding. Old school siding looking for true vertical grain clapboards cut from a single log.