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Here’s everything you need to know about the top 11 types of exterior house siding, including appearance, cost, maintenance, and more pros and cons from experts
Deteriorated imitation brick asphalt siding. A predecessor to modern maintenance free sidings was asphalt brick siding. Asphalt impregnated panels (about 2 by 4 ft or 0.61 by 1.22 m) give the appearance of brick or even stone. Many buildings have this siding, especially old sheds and garages.
Romans extensively used fired brick of a shape and type now called Roman bricks. [15] Building with brick gained much popularity in the mid-18th century and 19th centuries. This was due to lower costs with increases in brick [16] manufacturing and fire-safety in increasingly crowded cities.
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Tabby was used in place of bricks, which could not be made locally because of the absence of local clay. Tabby was used like concrete for floors, foundations, columns, roofs. Besides replacing bricks, it was also used as "oyster shell mortar" or "burnt shell mortar".
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