The reason for this is that the pieces need to be overlapped over each other while the tongue and groove siding just needs to be slipped together.
Clapboard vs tongue and groove siding.
Tongue and groove novelty types may be blind nailed at the tongue at left.
Clapboard style siding has been used on houses for centuries both here in america and in europe.
Between the two different designs however wood lap siding is a little harder to install.
Novelty siding that swaps a bevel for the cove is often called channel rustic.
Popular by the 1880s and possibly in use as early as 1860 it is typically edge matched in a shiplap joint but was also produced in tongue and groove.
The differences between tongue and groove and shiplap are both functional and aesthetic.
The installation process for both tongue and groove siding and wood lap siding is pretty simple.
It is the most popular siding sold today.
Clapboard siding is siding where long narrow boards or panels are nailed horizontally across the house.
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It is available in rough cut or smooth cut and is made with either clear wood or knotty pines.
3 tongue and groove siding as with the drop channel siding tongue and groove siding can be installed in any desired direction.