“What do I need to know about house cladding?”
Timber, zinc, slate, glass, stone, concrete, plastic, steel, clay… the possibilities for cladding are endless. For most of our history, the material you saw on the outside of a building was also its structure. Stone and brick walls held up the roof and floors as well as providing the external finish and weathering layer. The main exception was timber-framed houses and barns. Here, the structure