Board and Batten Siding in Raleigh, NC

You have seen it on the newer farmhouse-style houses going up around Wake County and you want it. Board and batten is vertical boards with narrow strips, the battens, covering the seams between them. Here is the useful thing to know before you start getting quotes: board and batten is a pattern, not a product. You can have it in vinyl, in fiber cement, or in engineered wood, and those three age very differently.

Where Board and Batten Works

Full house vertical is the boldest version and it suits a simple form with clean gables. On a house with a lot of small offsets and bump-outs it gets busy, because every change of plane interrupts the vertical rhythm that makes the look work.

The more common approach in Raleigh, and often the better one, is mixing it. Board and batten on the gables with lap siding below. Or vertical on a front-facing bump-out with lap everywhere else. That contrast is what gives the modern farmhouse look its character, and it costs less than doing the whole house vertically. We will walk your elevations with you and show you where the break lines should fall, because putting a material change in the wrong place is the thing that makes a house look like it was decided by committee.

Material and Batten Spacing

Vinyl board and batten is the least expensive and gets you the look at the lowest cost, with the same caveats vinyl always carries about impact and heat. Engineered wood gives you real texture and crisp batten shadow lines at a middle price. Fiber cement gives you the sharpest, most substantial version and the best durability, and it is what most of the well-executed examples you have admired actually are.

Batten spacing is the design decision people overlook. Wider spacing, meaning battens further apart, reads more traditional and calmer. Narrower spacing reads more contemporary and more energetic, and it costs more because there are more battens to install. We will mock up the spacing against your house before committing, since it changes the character of the whole elevation and it is not something you want to discover after the fact.

Board and Batten Siding Cost in Raleigh

Board and batten generally costs somewhat more than the same material in a lap profile, because there are more pieces and more fastening. Batten spacing, material choice and how much of the house gets the vertical treatment are the three levers.

A gable-only application is an affordable way to get the look. Whole-house vertical in fiber cement is at the other end. We will price the options against each other in writing.

Why Choose Us

Getting the break lines and the batten spacing right is the difference between this looking designed and looking applied.

We are fully insured with general liability and workers' compensation, and we hand you proof of it along with your estimate. Bryan owns this company and has spent 14 years in the trades, so the read you get comes from someone who has done this work himself. Estimates are free and we can usually be out within one to three days. Your price is written down before anything starts, your workmanship warranty runs 2 to 12 years depending on the project, in writing, and financing is available.

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