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What is Shiplap?

 Shiplap is very confusing. 
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What is Shiplap? The simple answer is that Shiplap is a profile. Shiplap is simply the name given to one of the various ‘profiles’ used when milling Southern Yellow Pine. A more familiar profile tongue and groove is flooring, while Shiplap, V-Groove and ‘Gap’ siding the most popular profiles for the wall. Bayou Rustic offers our customers Clear and Knotty versions of our Southern Pine including Shiplap, Car or Gap Siding", the most popular versions and seen all over home improvement networks. 

 

V- GROOVE, CAR SIDING, SHIP-LAP, BEAD BOARD ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF SOUTHERN PINE WALLS AND OR CEILINGS. THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PINE IS USED BECAUSE OF ITS DURABILITY PERIOD. IT IS EASY TO WORK WITH AND LOOKS AMAZING, FLOOR WALL OR CEILING. 

Car-siding, also known as a V-groove, has always been a best seller. V Groove performs well inside because of how easy it is to clean compared to a true shiplap. Shiplap (laps over). Cars-siding named for the railroad cars they once lined fit with v joint profile. Gap siding, nickel or penny connects with a profile providing the illusion of gaps, which experienced DIYs create using S4S. S4S, or smooth all four sides, refers to a boardplanned ‘smooth’, i.e., without a profile. 

Painting Interior Siding

To sum up, knots are hard to cover sometimes. And painting over knots means painting over sapwood with our Longleaf Pine, it requires more work and normally darker colors. On the other hand, Clear Pine costs more than Knotty Pine. For example, a clear board may cost 50% more than one with knots, but painting requires less work and cheaper paint than Knotty Pine. These types of issues are those which we can make suggestions, based on our experience, with stain or finish #2 Knotty and or paint Clear grade Southern Pine. 

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