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  2. Clapboard - Wikipedia

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    Clapboard is always referred to as weatherboard in New Zealand. Newer, cheaper designs often imitate the form of clapboard construction as siding made of vinyl , aluminum, fiber cement, or other man-made materials. These materials can provide a lightweight alternative to wooden cladding.

  3. Siding (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Wood clapboard is often imitated using vinyl siding or uPVC weatherboarding. It is usually produced in units twice as high as clapboard. Plastic imitations of wood shingle and wood shakes also exist. Since plastic siding is a manufactured product, it may come in unlimited color choices and styles.

  4. Clapperboard - Wikipedia

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    Clapperboard. A clapperboard, also known as a dumb slate, clapboard, film clapper, film slate, movie slate, or production slate, is a device used in filmmaking, television production and video production to assist in synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark the various scenes and takes as they are filmed and audio-recorded.

  5. White Clapboard House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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    By Beth Woodson and Kristy Harvey From the Kennedy compound to FDR's Little White House, white clapboard houses are part of America's history. The classic style and design of these charming homes ...

  6. Vinyl siding - Wikipedia

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    Vinyl siding is plastic exterior siding for houses and small apartment buildings, used for decoration and weatherproofing, imitating wood clapboard, batten board and batten or shakes, and used instead of other materials such as aluminum or fiber cement siding. It is an engineered product, manufactured primarily from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin.

  7. Wood splitting - Wikipedia

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    In woodworking carpenters use a wooden siding which gets its name, clapboard, [2] from originally being split from logs—the sound of the plank against the log being a clap. This is used in clapboard architecture and for wainscoting. Coopers use oak clapboards to make barrel staves. [1] Split-rail fences are made with split wood.

  8. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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    They were made of wood and covered in wide clapboard or shingles, often unpainted, which weathered grey over time. Most houses were small, usually 1,000–2,000 square feet (100–200 m 2) in size. Often windows of different sizes were worked into the gable ends, with those of nine and six panes the most common. [citation needed]

  9. Fiber cement siding - Wikipedia

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    Fiber cement is a composite material made of cement reinforced with cellulose fibers. Originally, asbestos was used as the reinforcing material but, due to safety concerns, that was replaced by cellulose in the 1980s. [1] Fiber cement board may come pre-painted or pre-stained or can be done so after its installation. [2]