Historic Wood 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.

Historic wood siding profiles.

With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it. Lap sidings were among the earliest types of finish siding. In the wwpa s siding profile catalog the association gives precise measurements that permit millers to produce these standard siding profiles. In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside.

The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints. Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths. There are many features that make wood siding of primary historical importance to your building. You will find shiplap siding in several variations among these profiles but in the company of coves grooves and bevels that extend the range of profiles.

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. 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. Dutch lap siding pattern. Reclaimed historic siding including clapboard shake and historic cedar siding.

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.