Cedar wood siding and hardie fiber board siding is commonly available in a clapboard or lap board style and is often sold by the 12 board.
Standard clapboard siding dimensions.
There is wide variety of types styles and textures of siding available on the market and even similar in appearance siding panels from different producers might vary in actual dimensions.
The boards overlap each other and are only partially exposed to the elements to keep the building water tight.
Clapboard siding also known as weatherboard used to cover over flat squared logs in log house construction clapboard ˈ k l æ b ə r d also called bevel siding lap siding and weatherboard with regional variation in the definition of these terms is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards often overlapping.
Bevel siding and bungalow siding are 20th century versions that are generally resawn from boards producing random grain to obtain widths of 8.
Clapboard is plain beveled siding a near isosceles triangle when viewed on end.