Siding Help For contractors and homeowners.

Easy Siding will help you with finding Contractors or Do it yourself siding advice. We will guide you through the process of choosing the right siding and showing you how to install it. I have been building homes for over 25 years and am a expert at home building . I will guide you through the common mistakes that most construction professionals make. This web site will provide you with helpful pictures and guide booklets to make it as painless as possible.

Siding is the outer covering of a house meant to shed water and protect from the effects of weather.

Siding may be formed of horizontal boards, vertical boards, shingles, or sheet materials. In all four cases, avoiding wind and rain infiltration through the joints is a major challenge, met by overlapping, by covering or sealing the joint, or by creating an interlocking joint such as a tongue-and-groove or rabbet. Since building materials expand and contract with changing temperature and humidity, it is not practical to make rigid joints between the siding elements.

Siding may be made of wood, metal, plastic, or composite materials. It may be attached directly to the building structure (studs in the case of wood construction), or to an intermediate layer of horizontal planks called sheathing.

Fiber Cement Siding is a composite material made of sand, cement and cellulose fibers. In appearance, fiber cement siding most often consists of overlapping horizontal boards, imitating wooden clapboard; other formats include imitation shingle as well as sidewall panels and soffit.
 

Redwood is a name used for several species of trees with red or reddish colored wood; see each species for individual details. It is also used as a place name on its own or in combination, sometimes for places associated with redwood trees but not always.