Tongue & Groove

Quality wood siding does more than protect your home—it creates a traditional, clean design that gives your home or building a down-to-earth aesthetic. If you want to replace the siding on your home, consider installing Rocky Mountain Forest Products siding with tongue and groove siding. You’ll love how it looks.

With this type of siding, the jutting ribs, or tongues, on the edges of the boards slide into the corresponding grooves on adjacent boards. This creates a tight seal that enables the siding to keep out cold weather.

Tongue and groove siding can be installed horizontally or vertically. If installing horizontally, start at the bottom and work up with the groove edges facing downwards. Siding up to 6 inches wide can be blind nailed with one siding nail per bearing toe-nailed through the base of each tongue. Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece- penetrating 1-1/4 inches into solid wood.

In vertical application, start at one corner with grooved edge toward the adjacent wall. Use a level or plumb line to ensure that the first board is installed plumb. The grooved edge of the first board may have to be trimmed to ensure a flush fit. Siding is nailed to horizontal blocking lines installed between studs or to furring strips. As with horizontal installation, pieces up to 6 inches can be blind nailed and wider pieces should be face nailed.