Best Choice for Your Eco-House
Everyone loves holidays. The most common picture that comes to mind mentioning ‘holidays’ is some rustic, freshly-looking forest house with dozens of wooden elements. If you adore this description and would definitely like to use cedar siding, TOLOKA General Contractor&Builder is right here to help.
What is cedar siding? It’s a fragrant and beautiful wooden siding with a natural ability to retain its shape and hold finishes extremely well. With numerous variations of types and patterns, it seems hard to make your choice. TOLOKA General Contractor&Builder will gladly give you some piece of advice on your way to your dream house.
Cedar siding is one of the most usable eco-friendly options for house renovation. For you not to be confused with qualities and specifications, we would like to familiarize you with them. After reading through this explanation, you’ll be sure about your decision.
Cedar Siding Variations
It’s worth noting that when picking up the right siding, the customer should also consider the casing treatment of window and door openings. The exterior trim of your house may need replacement as well. Thus, it’s important to inspect all the details if you’d like everything in your house to be compatible with each other and function just like you’ve imagined it.
Before the types’ description, we should inform you that wood is an unpredictable material. When ordering your cedar siding, you’ll need to agree on many things. TOLOKA General Contractor&Builder prefers their clients to know all about the product they choose.
Firstly, is the cedar the manufacturer provides seasoned or unseasoned? The cedar is called seasoned when moisture has been removed from it to a minimal 15%. Unseasoned cedar is often named “green” one and has to be left for good drying before installation.
Secondly, what siding surface appeals to you more? Our contractors can offer smooth, rough, and saw-textured ones. Cedar siding with a smooth surface shows the grain patterns and has more variations. A more weather look of the house is achieved with a rough sawn surface. And if you’d like your exterior to be even more “severe”, saw-textured cedar with saw-made markings is your choice.
Finally, we’re at the last diversity point – styles and profiles or patterns. Let us tell you more about them.
Cedar Siding Patterns
Bevel cedar siding is the most popular of all the profiles. Two planks with one edge thicker than the other are produced by cutting a single board diagonally. The textures can be saw-like or smooth. Some TOLOKA contractors provide a plain bevel edge, rabbeted bevel, and wavy edge bevel options.
Board and batten cedar siding are vertical wide boards installed side by side with thin battens covering the joints. This style had many combinations that the client can customize. Appearance options include textured and smooth looks.
Clapboard cedar siding leaves no exposed gaps by overlapping boards and creating unique thicknesses. The biggest advantage of this type is the possibility to form horizontal, vertical, or diagonal structures.
Tongue and groove cedar siding also offer a triplet of design options with rough and smooth faces. Variation of v-shaped, flush, reveal-shaped, or radius-cut joints opens new exterior shadowing of your house siding.
Lap cedar siding is a little bit similar to the previous one but shadows could be even larger. This is conducted with the technique of the partial overlap of each board or lap.
Cedar log siding can be even tree-sized but only horizontal and hand-hewn. With this type, you’ll get a new level of width made on the exterior wall of your home.
Cedar trim boards are the continuation of roofing combined with wall siding. They are installed around open spaces (like windows) and could have rough-sawn, surfaced, or smooth textures.
Cedar Shakes and Shingles
In case you’d like just a part of your exterior to be covered with cedar siding, cedar shakes and shingles are perfect for this idea.
Cedar shakes form split wood pieces that used to be hand-manufactured. Nowadays, they’re mostly machine-cut though with still nice appearance.
Cedar shingles are cut from a block of wood and have plenty of designs to be realized – any patterns, staggered, straight edge, or round edge shingles.
Cedar Siding Grades
Only two grades of cedar siding are available:
- Clear cedar – a more expensive grade with few knots or splits. Because of its superior quality, their acceptance of paints, stains, or water repellents is easier.
- Knotty grade – speaks for itself, though wooden warmth and cozy charm of a rustic look will be preserved as well.
Maintenance specifications
If wood is fo good, why don’t all the customers pick this type of siding? The answer is maintenance. Before installation cedar siding needs a good protecting finish and sometimes coverage with fire-retardant chemicals. Repainting and re-staining every 3-5 years should be considered as well. Rot, woodpeckers, and insects will also try to damage your nice exterior.
But to every problem, there’s a solution. TOLOKA General Contractor&Builder says it’s professional care. If installed and treated by experienced builders, your cedar siding would be a true long-lasting beauty for your eyes.
Do you hesitate what to choose?
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Main Cedar Siding Advantages
- The most aesthetically pleasing siding
- Variation of types, styles, and textures
- Great sound and thermal insulation
- Complete biodegradability
- Easy installation and repainting processes
- A life-lasting siding investment
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