Burnt Wood House Siding

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.

Burnt wood house siding.

Montana timber products has mastered our own proprietary finishing process to ensure the highest quality and character. The technique simultaneously makes the wood beautiful mold resistant pest resistant and ironically fire resistant. Charred wood shou sugi ban burnt wood siding 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. Charwood is a japanese style of charred wood called shou sugi ban a process of finishing siding that dates back hundreds of years.

Charred wood siding and fencing are the products of an ancient japanese technique that makes a unique beautiful and durable exterior wood product. The burnt fiber crevasse shadows are subtle and gendai can either be installed with or without an oil prefinish. The final product is also known as yakisugi yaki means to cook burn and sugi is the japanese name for cedar but shou sugi ban seems to have won as the most commonly used term in english and it is sometimes simply known as a carbonized wood finish. Siding green living shou sugi ban is an old japanese method of preserving wood by burning it.

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. The carbonised wood brushes off and you are left with a really beautiful 3d textured finish caused by uneven burning of the growth rings in the wood. 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. Shou sugi ban is an ancient japanese carbonized wood finish created by burning the surface of wood to preserve it.

Thanks to its stunning beauty and durability shou sugi ban is making a comeback. Wood siding is exceptionally versatile and often quite easy to alter. The essential idea is to burn the surface of wood to a varying degree of char. This gives the wood an absolutely stunning finish and i have used this on another project i made a copper pipe charred wood designer clothes hanger.

The japanese invented this technique centuries ago calling it shou sugi ban or yakisugi.