Cedar Reverse Board And Batten Siding

Reverse board and batten panels offer a soft elegance to be used alone or in combination with other exterior siding styles.

Cedar reverse board and batten siding.

Summit prefinished siding is designed for lp smartside products to provide your home with exceptional durability and beauty. Tough to the core lp smartside siding is a treated engineered wood product that s more durable stable and consistent than traditional wood panels. The combination of two different sized boards is what makes the sleek long lines that can be either vertical or horizontal. Performance and looks unlike conventional board and batten siding where boards are fastened directly to the wall and battens are nailed over the gap between the boards with this technique the narrow battens are applied first and the wide.

There is no set board or batten widths various combinations are used to create different looks suitable for large or small scale applications. With wider boards increase batten overlap proportionately. This month we take a look at the home s reverse board and batten exterior hand crafted from locally milled 1x6 rough sawn white cedar. Board batten siding.

Board and batten siding in 6 10 widths trucedar steel siding accurately replicates the popular vertical craftsman style of board and batten siding available in wide 10 and narrow 6 profiles. For nominal 6 inch boards spaced inch apart battens should overlap by a least 1 2 inch. Board and batten siding is a vertical design created using wide clear or knotty cedar boards spaced apart with narrower boards battens covering the joins. Board and batten is a vertical design created using wide clear or knotty cedar boards spaced apart with narrower boards battens covering the joins.

Installing board batten siding. Board and batten is siding that is created by using real wood including cedar redwood pine white oak engineered wood and many others. Installing new board and batten siding costs between 4 000 and 14 000 but most homeowners pay about 9 000 material boards cost between 0 75 and 10 per square foot including labor the total cost to install board and batten siding averages 2 25 to 12 50 per square foot this style of siding is characterized by a series of alternating board sizes. Board and batten is a vertical pattern created using cedar boards and battens of various widths for a wide range of appearances.

There are no set board or batten widths with this cedar siding but a common combination is 1 x2 or 1 x3 battens laid over 1 x10 or 1 x12 boards. The boards are generally about a foot wide. Board batten texture and sizes. Rough sawn unseasoned boards or boards surfaced on one side and two edges s1s2e are commonly used for board and batten siding.

Sizes are from 1 x 2 to 1 x12.