Wood siding “channel style” sharp edge ?
Wood lap siding
channel style as shown in
http://www.elderforest.com/pattern.htm
is on our condo building. we need to replace some of it.
Does the sharp edge of this design trap water when installed horizontally?
seems a better design would be a slight bevel rather than the hard edge.
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There's a lot of that siding around here and I've installed some of it. I don't think the square edge is a major problem and I would go ahead and use it. I have seen an almost identical pattern where the edge was not quite square and there was a little bit of slope there... someone had the same thought as you.
most of the "patterns" I see for similar siding has the hard edge set at 5 degrees, probably to let rain fall off