Board and Batten construction

[bcp]

One house I lived in had 12 inch siding, with boards and "battens" of the same size, with about an inch overlap at the edges. They were unplaned, unpainted redwood.

Bruce

 

[Sodo]

Sorry Furu I failed here too.

Don't use pine boards for outdoor siding, use fir or cedar, pine won't last but a few years exposed to weather.

While the white pine boards that we get in the Northwest are no good for outdoors, and may require extra effort to keep them sealed, there are other kinds of Pine that are good for outdoor siding. Subalpine Pine (grows at higher elevations like 4,000+) lasts long in the weather but that's probably not the pine you find at the lumber store.

I have ponderosa pine stumps and doug fir stumps. In 16 years the Doug fir are still solid but the ponderosa stumps are completely rotted, you can kick them into their own hole with your boot. Same with the logging slash, the pine slash is all gone; only Dougfir sticks remain from the 1998 logging.

That's about all I know about pine. I know nothing about pine from other parts of the country or world. Ask /pine maybe he knows more.

 

[hslogger]

Furu is in Washington State. I am in Oregon. All my sheds and barn are board and batten. Most of them are one by twelve rough sawn full dimension Douglas Fir. One by four batts. A couple sides have full dimension rough sawn western red cedar, mostly O.G, same dimensions twelve inch and four inch.
In the Pacific Northwest it was the traditional siding and I continue to use it, in Western Oregon. It looks good, requires little maintenance, and livestock aren't gonna wreck it or stick their hooves through it.

 

[dragoneggs]

IMO board and batten siding is one of the most attractive wood sidings there is...I've seen some very original paint combinations that can make them look surreal...

Personally I have installed more than I care to remember...almost all of it was on buildings right on the (FL) gulf beaches...almost always it was rough sawn cypress (full 1" thick)...rough dimensioned 1x10's and 1x3's...

All the framing had horizontal blocking at 16"oc vertically and we used 16HDG common nails...used one nail to set the board spacing so the battens required precise nailing...


The beauty of cypress if left entirely unfinished it gets a very attractive grey patina....

Slash, I am totally with you on B & B.