Siding
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Sustainable Siding
Choosing siding for a green home
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Urban Rustic: Charred Cedar Siding
Mixing natural and charred cedar gives the house a bold look
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Saving Sustainably: Installing Trim and Siding
Fiber-cement siding over a vented rainscreen finishes the exterior
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Lead Paint and Old Clapboards
A homeowner looks for ways to rescue painted bevel siding on an 1860 house
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Pete’s Puzzle: Mold on Painted Clapboards is Food for Thought
There is mold on the factory-primed, latex top-coated wood clapboards on the south but not the north side of our house
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Wolfe Island Passive: Siding and a Porch
The engineered wood siding has a 25-year warranty, but it should protect the house for decades
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An Architect Promotes High-Performance Siding
This ‘solar-activated façade’ combines glass, wood, and air, but touted R-values are being met with some skepticism
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Siding and Soffits at the Blue Heron EcoHaus
Pine tar mimics the look of a Japanese technique called shou sugi ban, but at a much lower cost
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On Shutters and Water Management
How to tell good shutters from bad shutters — and what you can learn from water stains on siding