Old Fashioned Siding

This type dates to the 1930s or earlier.

Old fashioned siding.

Plain lap siding beveled to be thinner at one edge viewed from the end grain. Class action lawsuits resulted and the manufacturers ended up paying a lot of money for siding to be replaced on homes. Dolly varden is bevel siding with a rabbeted edge allowing installation flat on the wall with a tight joint. When milled with an unplaned face it s quite rustic.

Types of old house siding. 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. Unlike flat grain siding cut from stock lumber ward s clapboards are produced using a unique radial sawing process similar to traditional rift sawing. Ward clapboard mill has been cutting radially sawn boards since 1864.

Beveled and rabbited siding. Plain board siding also called clapboard siding. 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. Clapboards are the old new england staple.

If you decide to install shiplap siding vertically be sure to bevel cut the ends so water is directed to the outside. My wife and i are blessed to own a victorian home ca. Both metal siding types often were manufactured with a thin lining of foam designed to increase the insulation value of the siding. Board and batten siding and reverse board and batten.

The home has a small wooden deck some people would call it a porch directly off of the back door. 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. As with many old houses we use the back door as the primary door since it is adjacent to the driveway. 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.

Old school siding looking for true vertical grain clapboards cut from a single log. Aluminum and steel siding became popular in the 1950s and 60s as a cost effective choice to cover deteriorated wood siding.