Poplar Barn Siding

For interior work it s a great wood.

Poplar barn siding.

Red and white oak yellow poplar cucumber magnolia pine hemlock and the list goes on. These barns are easily 50 plus years old. Poplar bark siding is extremely resilient beautiful and natural. As long as your siding is not in contact with the ground any of those woods should last for a very long time.

Poplar for siding a barn. Local lore holds that termites don t like yellow poplar. Around here southwestern pa there are barns with siding of just about every kind of wood you can imagine. I ve never seen an insect problem with it.

Features benefits of poplar bark siding. Traditionally white oak and yellow poplar were the first and second choices of local species for siding barns. When you choose poplar bark shingles you are choosing a resource that in many other cases goes to waste when trees are harvested. The bark which is historically a waste product in lumber operations is harvested to become siding and wall tiles before the logs reach the mill.

Poplar doesn t fair well when exposed to the elements it s rots very fast. Extreme durability poplar bark is a natural protector resistant to both harsh weather and insects. Low maintenance poplar bark siding are virtually maintenance free never requiring staining sealing or chemical treatments. Natural bark siding the original at barkclad our natural bark siding is from poplar and is hand peeled dried in a certified kiln hand cut on site stacked loaded and shipped for delivery within a 1 week period or less to maintain the exceptional natural integrity of the bark.

It is also a very eco friendly choice for siding because all of the tree one of our few renewable resources can be used. Many of these structures remain demonstrating just how well yellow poplar performed. Intuitively it would seem yellow poplar could be used for the same applications today. Yellow poplar dries fast but it shrinks a lot and will go crazy if not held or nailed down.