Wood clapboard or beveled lap siding is horizontal and has overlapping joints that help shed water. Wood plank or board siding is vertical and comes in board and batten, board-on-board, and channel-groove or tongue-and-groove styles.

There’s a wide variety of wood types of siding for homeowners to choose from, including cedar, cypress, engineered wood, redwood, spruce, fir, pine, shiplap, wood fiber cement, shingle, shake, panels, split log, tongue-and-groove, charred wood, Siberian larch, oak, ash, firwood, Cumaru, Accoya, Thermowood, Douglas fir, Tatajuba, Garapa, Iroko, and Massaranduba.