Historic Wood Siding Profiles

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

Historic wood siding profiles.

This planning process is a sequential approach to the preservation of historic wood frame buildings. With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it. 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. In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside.

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. Lap sidings were among the earliest types of finish siding. Dutch lap siding pattern. Able to match any historical siding or molding pattern in multiple wood patterns.

In the wwpa s siding profile catalog the association gives precise measurements that permit millers to produce these standard siding profiles. Reclaimed historic siding including clapboard shake and historic cedar siding. Historic wood siding exhibits rich and varied surface textures. 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.

Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths.