ᐅ Natural weathering of wooden facades

Hello, we are planning our house with a natural wood facade (larch or Douglas fir). Since our development plan requires a roof overhang and the weathering on roof overhangs usually occurs very unevenly, we are considering using a pre-weathered wood facade. Does anyone have experience with pre-weathered facades? How do they look after a few years? Can this really prevent uneven weathering in the long term?

Hello, I have no experience with pre-weathered wood. I have larch on two facades myself, but with almost no roof overhang, which results in a very even weathering.

However, while walking last week, I noticed a non-weathered "facade" of a garage (rhombus cladding, probably larch) that looked quite different under the very large roof overhang of the main house compared to the rest. Additionally, at the end of the eaves, there was an ugly black-gray rain streak vertically "decorating" the rhombus cladding. I wouldn’t like that 🙄

Yes, I would definitely like to avoid those "rain streaks" on the eaves. However, I am not sure if the pre-weathering will prevent this in the long run...

You then have the problem that the artificial weathering will first fade away before the natural weathering takes effect. However, the natural weathering looks different from the artificial one in the upper part. It will always look as if the house needs a visit to the hairdresser.

Do you have a wooden facade yourself, or is this your experience or just a guess? It probably depends a lot on which pre-weathering color you choose and whether it matches the natural weathering color reasonably well.

I am only familiar with a "stone washed legendary look" from the time when the Stustustudio line was popular (I think the chancellor was still Schmidt back then).

Hausmax123 schrieb:

Does anyone have experience with pre-weathered facades? How do they look after several years? Can they really prevent uneven weathering in the long term?

Possibly with a rotating house, yes. Otherwise, weather conditions will inevitably act very unfairly, and the sunny side, windward side, etc., will always show differences. I’m not sure to what extent this could be counteracted with different “light protection factors” or something similar.

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