Old Siding Details

Dutch lap siding pattern.

Old siding details.

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. You may also see splintering and splitting but the board is still intact. True shiplap siding in its simplest most basic form. 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. It s fire and insect proof won t rot and is easy to paint and clean. So you can use your creativity. For most of the housing market aluminum siding has been replaced by vinyl but it still covers many existing mid century homes.

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. Popular in the late forties and fifties panels of aluminum siding were also made to look like clapboards. With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it.

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. The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints. Wood siding has been around since there were trees.

Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths. Shiplap siding milled into this pattern is sold in varying thicknesses. This is no uniform width to the boards.