Wood Siding

When the time comes for a homeowner to side the exterior of their home, wood siding is a wonderful choice. It can completely change the outside look of your home, adding warmth, character, and natural timeless beauty. Choosing wood siding for your house depends upon the style of your home, location, and budget. Some people love the look of exterior wood siding but not the cost so they choose a wood look vinyl siding or engineered wood siding as a less expensive alternative. Residential engineered wood siding products give the appearance of real wood but are not as expensive. On today’s market, there are a large variety of materials and types of wood siding to choose from including:

• Rustic wood siding
  
• Vertical wood siding
  
• Rough cut wood siding
  
• Wavy edge wood siding
  
• Slab wood siding

If you have your heart set on installing wood siding or wood slab siding on your home, you should always purchase the best wood siding grade that fits your budget. Many home building stores have discount wood siding available.

Cedar is a popular wood siding because of its beautiful grain and texture, resists swelling, rot resistance, dimensionally stability, and has less splitting and cupping than many other types of woods. When you stain cedar wood siding, it reveals the rich character. Like all wood siding, you must seal and paint or stain it to resist decay, damage, insects, and moisture.

Another popular wood, house siding is pine, which is often less expensive than many other wood species. Pine wood siding holds stain or paint well, especially on horizontal siding. Because pine is not rot resistant, there is some maintenance required.

Redwood siding gives your home a very unique, beautiful exterior. With its rich tone and texture, redwood is a great choice in almost any climate. It keeps its joints with very little cupping or warping, holds its profile, and resists shrinking. It requires very little maintenance because it absorbs and keeps the finish and is naturally insect resistant.

Log siding is a kiln dried wood siding which gives your home a rustic beauty without the maintenance and expensive of a real log home. This siding is the perfect solution for homeowners who have always wanted to live in a log home.

By installing wood shingle siding and properly maintaining it, it will look wonderful and last for many years.