Burnt Wood House Siding

Wood siding is exceptionally versatile and often quite easy to alter.

Burnt wood house siding.

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. 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. 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. 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.

A light brushing process knocks down the heavy soot layer and leaves a smooth silky appearance. 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. Charred cedar although any number of species of wood could work. 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.

Charred wood shou sugi ban burnt wood siding. The burnt fiber crevasse shadows are subtle and gendai can either be installed with or without an oil prefinish. Charred wood siding and fencing aka. 18 2017 11 52 a m.

For our siding we re using an old japanese technique for preserving wood called shou sugi ban a k a. There s some flexibility in exactly how it s done and there are various looks that can be achieved. Shou sugi ban or yakisugi are uv resistant weather resistant rot resistant and bug resistant and can last upwards of 80 years with little to no maintenance.