The most traditional and durable wooden façade is the wooden shingle façade. Here, the individual wooden shingles are usually mounted in two layers, in the so-called double covering, on wooden slats. The traditional wooden shingle is hand-split and therefore has no cut wood fibres, making it particularly durable. But there are also sawn shingles, in rough-sawn, grooved, sanded or brushed. Surface treatments such as glazes are also possible, but rather atypical.
Due to the small-scale, uniform arrangement, a uniform greying is to be expected, which characterises the typical appearance of a wooden shingle façade. Properties and dimensions of wooden shingles are regulated in DIN 68119. As a rule, wooden shingles for facades are approx. 150 - 600 mm long and approx. 60 - 350 mm wide, depending on the size of the wall surface, although the widths of the individual shingles do not always have to be uniform for a façade. In addition to simple rectangular shingles, there are also decorative shingles with a wide variety of shapes, such as semi-circular, segmental shape, oak leaf, deer's tongue, pointed shape, etc. In addition, the individual shingles can be wedge-shaped (thicker at the shingle base than at the shingle head) or constant in thickness. DIN 68119 speaks here of the basic forms K (wedge-shaped) and P (parallel).
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