Historic Wood Siding Profiles

Reclaimed historic siding including clapboard shake and historic cedar siding.

Historic wood siding profiles.

There are many features that make wood siding of primary historical importance to your building. With lap siding the profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it. 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. In vertical applications bevel cut the ends and install the lap siding so water is directed to the outside.

Lap sidings were among the earliest types of finish 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. Dutch lap siding pattern. Historic wood siding exhibits rich and varied surface textures.

Able to match any historical siding or molding pattern in multiple wood patterns. Log cabin siding was common by the 1930s in 6 8 and 10 widths. 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. In the wwpa s siding profile catalog the association gives precise measurements that permit millers to produce these standard 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.