Corrugated steel siding, for the side of a barn.

Siding is the outer covering of a house meant to shed water and protect from the effects of weather. Image File history File links LightningVolt_Corrugated_Steel_Siding. ... Image File history File links LightningVolt_Corrugated_Steel_Siding. ... The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn in Poland Barn redirects here, for other uses, see Barn (disambiguation). ... ...

Siding may be formed of horizontal boards, vertical boards, shingles, or sheet materials. In all four cases, avoiding wind and rain infiltration through the joints is a major challenge, met by overlapping, by covering or sealing the joint, or by creating an interlocking joint such as a tongue-and-groove or rabbet. Since building materials expand and contract with changing temperature and humidity, it is not practical to make rigid joints between the siding elements. The word shingle has several distinct meanings in the English language: Photograph of wood shingles, also called shakes, as used in roofing. ... A rebate or rabbet A rabbet (also known as rebate) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machineable material, usually wood. ...

Siding may be made of wood, metal, plastic, or composite materials. It may be attached directly to the building structure (studs in the case of wood construction), or to an intermediate layer of horizontal planks called 'sheathing'.

Wood siding

Siding is often made out of wood. A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ...

Overlapping horizontal siding is called clapboard. Nowadays, however, clapboard is usually made of fiber cement and painted. In colonial times, Eastern white pine was the most common material. Wood siding can also be made of unpainted weather-resistant woods such as redwood. Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is a board used typically for exterior horizontal siding that has one edge thicker than the other and where the board above laps over the one below. ... Fiber cement siding is a building material used to cover the exterior of a house. ... Binomial name Pinus strobus L. Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeasternmost Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the extreme north of Georgia. ... Redwood is a name used for several species of trees with wood with a red or reddish colour; see each species for individual details. ...

Jointed horizontal siding may be shiplapped.

Vertical horizontal siding may have a cover outside the joint: board and batten, popular in American wooden Gothic revival houses; or less commonly behind the joint--batten and board. A batten is a thin strip of solid material (usually wood). ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...

Plywood sheet siding is sometimes used on inexpensive buildings, sometimes with grooves to imitate board-and-batten (T1-11). Plywood was the first type of engineered wood to be invented. ...

Wood shingle siding was used in some early New England construction, and was revived in Shingle Style and Queen Anne style architecture in the late 19th century. Because trees were plentiful from the earliest days of settlement of North America, the use of wood for all aspects of construction is not surprising. ... First Flag of New England, 1686-c. ... The Queen Anne style of British and American architecture reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways, not identically in Great Britain and the United States of America. ... The Buttermans, the historic home of John Newman, the butter king, is one of several Queen Anne mansions in Elgin, Illinois The Queen Anne style of British and American architecture reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways...

Plastic siding

Wood clapboard is often imitated using vinyl. It is usually produced in units twice as high as clapboard. There also exist plastic imitations of wood shingle and wood shakes. Vinyl siding is a way of covering the sides of the houses in which vinyl plates are used. ...

Metal siding

Utilitarian buildings often use corrugated galvanized steel sheet siding. Hot-dip galvanizing is the process of coating iron or steel with a thin zinc layer by passing the steel through a molten bath of zinc at a temperature of around 460°C. Zinc rusts to form zinc oxide, a fairly strong material that stops further rusting, protecting the steel...

Formerly, imitation wood clapboard was made of aluminum: 'aluminum siding'. Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ...

Composite siding

Various composite materials are also used for siding: asphalt, asbestos, fiber cement, aluminum (ACM) etc. Fiber cement siding is a building material used to cover the exterior of a house. ...