Historic Drop Siding

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Historic drop siding.

Water exposure had caused wood rot on the original siding on this home in a national historic district. Lengths 8 16 bevel siding 6 8. Drop siding is made primarily of pine and occasionally fir cedar hemlock and rarely cypress. Any pieces of drop siding that have large cracks or splits will need to be replaced.

Historic wood siding exhibits rich and varied surface textures. Most victorians used a horizontal fancy siding design for the first or the first and second floors with a fancy shingle pattern sometimes highlighting the remaining wall space. This planning process is a sequential approach to the preservation of historic wood frame buildings. Coved siding was popular by the 1880s.

Drop siding is fairly common on wisconsin houses built between 1890 and 1950. In addition we can match any other historical siding or molding pattern in whatever species and grade of wood specified. Each piece of drop siding is around 3 4 inch thick and has a deep cove running along its top edge. 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.

None of my local home improvement centers offer pressure treated weatherboard. Lengths 8 16. 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. Gordon bock illustrations by rob leanna.

Lengths 8 16 shiplap 8. Here are a few samples of siding that we have run although shown. Dutch lap or german siding is a type of drop siding which unlike clapboards is non beveled and not lapped in installation. If your historic house or building has drop wood siding you may occasionally find cracks or splits in the wood.

The siding is the largest visual part of any structure. Lengths 8 16 pattern 105 drop siding 6 8.