Houston Siding Contractors: Horizontal & Vertical Siding

Horizontal siding is the most common type of siding. Its main purpose is to easily cover great expanses of wall with minimum waste of material and time, while providing good protection against air, water and insect infiltration. Depending on its manufacturer and material, horizontal siding panels or stripes feature different panel sizes and interlocking or overlapping systems. The main goal is to secure the walls against water infiltration and provide additional stability of the siding as a whole. Some of the most popular systems are dutch lapping, traditional lapping, tongue & groove siding, bevel siding and others.

The exact lapping system is of lesser importance when it comes to choosing your siding. Instead you should focus on characteristics like strength and dimensional stability, level of maintenance required, insulation qualities, resistance to the elements, insects and fire.

Just like horizontal siding, vertical siding is meant to cover big areas at low cost and quickly. Because of its direction, vertical siding can not make use of the lapping systems developed for horizontal siding planks. Traditionally the joint between two panels is covered by a small vertical plank called batten. If the plank is on the outside, the system is referred to as board & batten, otherwise it is batten & board.

Contemporary siding manufacturers have of course devised their own interlocking systems that need not this additional peace for interlocking the planks. They guarantee their systems to provide much higher level insulation and stability 

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Houston Siding Contractors 
920 Texas Avenue 
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 489-9022