Burnt Wood House Siding

18 2017 11 52 a m.

Burnt wood house siding.

A light brushing process knocks down the heavy soot layer and leaves a smooth silky appearance. For our siding we re using an old japanese technique for preserving wood called shou sugi ban a k a. Wood is about as classic as you can get for siding material for your home but that doesn t mean you don t have plenty of creative finishes to choose from. The two most common ways of customizing wood siding are to play around with the board pattern mixing vertical and horizontal going diagonal decoratively shaped shingles etc or to use unique surface treatments.

Wood siding is exceptionally versatile and often quite easy to alter. Shou sugi ban burnt wood exterior cladding is naturally made very durable originated as a japanese wood finish for homes revealing the beauty of the natural preserved timber ecohome published. Specifically homeowner jon friesen and his father david took the house s siding big boards of douglas fir and torched each piece to give it a charred blackened surface. Charred cedar although any number of species of wood could work.

Literally translating to burnt cedar board in english shou sugi ban traditionally involves scorching wooden boards with a torch or controlled fire cooling the wood softening the char with a. Western red cedar is a renewable resource and we offer fsc certified sustainable options and it doesn t contain any nasty chemicals that are released into the environment or your house. There s some flexibility in exactly how it s done and there are various looks that can be achieved. The burnt fiber crevasse shadows are subtle and gendai can either be installed with or without an oil prefinish.

In many cases using our charred wood instead of painted stained wood siding or another siding material can actually be significantly cheaper over the long run. Charred wood siding and fencing aka. With traditional painted siding you have the cost of the siding installation costs paint and painting costs and then repainting again every 10 or so years.