Historic Wood Siding Profiles

Dutch lap siding pattern.

Historic wood siding profiles.

In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside. There are many features that make wood siding of primary historical importance to your building. 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. Lap sidings were among the earliest types of finish 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. Able to match any historical siding or molding pattern in multiple wood patterns. Historic wood siding exhibits rich and varied surface textures. With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it.

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. In the wwpa s siding profile catalog the association gives precise measurements that permit millers to produce these standard siding 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. Reclaimed historic siding including clapboard shake and historic cedar siding.

The classic example is log cabin siding a peeled log simulation with shiplapped joints.