Open Joint Wood Siding

An open joint wood rain screen is a construction method that uses wood siding as the outer rain screen layer creates a wall cavity space between the back of the siding and the outer building envelope and has an open joint in the wood siding to allow for ventilation.

Open joint wood siding.

We need materials that protect from the elements while also providing a modern aesthetic. Boards with distinct embossed designs break the uniform and regular rhythm of façades. However form should follow function but how. The result is simple elegant and practical.

Those specifications call for a double layer of the material in areas near open joints in the siding. From rustic reclaimed wood details to dramatic composite planks or panels homeowners are gravitating to the open joint siding trend. Where narrow siding is used such as the 4 inch cedar we used on figure 1. But technology has advanced a lot further since then.

Natural forces impact how we design modern sheds and select the materials we use. The open joint method can be used with either board or panel siding. Open joint siding isn t really a rain screen in the sense that most building scientists or our building code would describe one and the walls need to be detailed in a different way so that the layer behind provides all the water shedding details of a wrb layer but also gives the primary layer of protection we usually rely on cladding to provide. These composite panels also perfectly imitate the open joint appearance of wood cladding.

The pronounced trapezoidal wave shape ensures good rain water run off. Specified for open joint applications. Our open joint siding is more than just a pretty sur face. Called open joint rainscreen it s made up of siding courses that aren t overlapped or butted together in any way.

Offered in a unique false open joint profile weo cladding is resolutely modern and attractive. Wood battens usually made from pressure treated 1x4s are a popular choice around here for open joint siding applications. The concept of rain screen siding has been around since as early as the 12th century a d. Instead they re deliberately spaced a fraction of an inch apart which lets air circulate even more freely.

James hardie open joint siding is then added over the wraps and fastened with stainless fasteners completing the open joint process.