Old Style Shingle Siding

Some of the woods used are redwood and red cedar.

Old style shingle siding. It was used on some of the most historic homes in the country. 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. It is often called lap siding or horizontal siding. If possible stain all sides of the siding before installation.

It is available in a variety of sizes and shapes to match many of the old siding shingles installed over the last 60 years. Here are a couple looks created from designer roof shingle styles. In recent years shingle manufacturers have opened a whole new category of architectural asphalt shingles to simulate old world european roofing styles to look like wood shake slate and tile. Instead it is edge matched with a shiplap or less often tongue and groove so that it installs flat on wall framing even without sheathing.

Clapboard siding is designed with long narrow boards of around 4. These designer shinglesopen up a new world of possibilities in roof design. Primed 4 oc v groove plywood siding panel. Coved siding was popular by the 1880s.

A machine does the cutting to ensure they are uniform and smooth. In colonial times and is a traditional method of siding a house. Wood siding shake wood siding 4 inch siding 1 in. Dutch lap or german siding is a type of drop siding which unlike clapboards is non beveled and not lapped in installation.

Clapboard siding was first used in the u s. Weatherside fiber cement siding is the 1 and weatherside fiber cement siding is the 1 and only solution for replacing or repairing old asbestos siding shingles. First remove any mill glaze a hard shiny surface on one side of the siding by sanding. Shingles are made using uniform wood blocks that may be cut into different shapes.

Shingles are environmentally friendly and they give the home exterior an old rustic look. Gary kearns of kearns brothers inc a gaf master elite contractor serving the dearborn michigan area discusses how his company s early adoption of gaf tools including gaf smartmoney and gaf project helped his company be prepared to serve customers remotely offer financing options and rise to the challenges of the covid 19 pandemic view more social distancing resources from gaf. Siding related products 0 344 in. While shake and shingle siding are most often associated with cape cod style homes they can add instant character to any style home anywhere.

They are installed over another surface overlapping one another.