Long, thin wooden planks with notched edges that interlock, applied horizontally to an exterior wall, one above the other. Used for weatherproofing.

Siding boards of special design nailed horizontally to vertical studs with or without intervening sheathing to form the exposed surface of outside walls of frame buildings.

A style of milled plank used in siding that is laid close enough so as to appear to be butted.

A board siding with joints cut out of the board allowing pieces to fit together with no overlapping.

See Clapboard

a rectangular projecting ledge along the length on each side of a floorboard

a rectangular projecting lip running along the length on each side of a floor board

Siding boards, typically with a rabbeted overlapping edge, that are nailed horizontally to vertical studs with or without intervening sheathing to form the exposed surface of outside walls of frame buildings.

Type of lining boards, which have rectangular section grooves between. Sidelights - Fixed glass panels flanking a door or window opening. In Victorian and Edwardian buildings, often coloured or leadlight.

Boards with lapped joints along their edges.

wooden sheathing in which the boards are rabbeted so that the edge of each board laps over the edges of adjacent boards to make a flush joint (a rabbet is a channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a surface, usually to enable one edge to receive another, as in paneling).

A milled pattern of siding designed to shed water when applied horizontally.

( planche à feuillure) siding or cladding of horizontally laid boards with notched edges that make an overlapping joint, applied to the outside of a wood-framed building, or a stone wall, to make it weatherproof; the face of each board is parallel to the plane of the wall (also called drop siding).

Construction technique of joining two materials by notching both and inserting slots into each other.

A style of siding similar to clapboard but with a beveled edge that creates a dimensional effect. Shiplap is another name for dutchlap.

1. Lumber that has been worked to make a lapped, or rabbeted joint on each edge so that pieces may be fitted together snugly for increased strength and stability. 2. A similar pattern cut into plywood or other wood panels used as siding, to assure a tight joint.

are boards with rabbeted edges which overlap.

Refers to and edge finish in which one edge of a member is cut to lap over the corresponding edge of the adjoining member.

horizontal wooden siding that is installed with overlapping edges to shed rainwater; clapboard siding is similar.

A layering method in which each layer overlaps the layer below it so that water runs down the outside and cannot get behind the layers.

siding boards with overlapping joints along edges, applied over sheathing.

Shiplap is a term used to describe a type of wooden board used commonly in the construction of barns, sheds, outbuildings and inexpensive or seasonal homes. It is either rough-sawn 1" or milled 3/4" pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 3" and 10" wide with a 3/8" - 1/2" rabbet on opposite sides of each end. The rabbet allows the boards to overlap in this area.