This is the only exposed part.
Ghetto brick siding.
Looks like they are installed in 24 x48 sections.
Aluminum siding kicked it to the curb.
Commonly used names now are faux brick lick it and stick it brick and ghetto brick.
Ghetto brick in the mid 20th century before there was aluminum or vinyl siding asphalt shingle siding was the alternative replacement siding.
Some of this siding was stamped to appear to be brick or stone.
It feels like shingles when you rub them but looks like a tire tread.
The exterior siding panels incredibly lifelike quality will convince people that actual brick or stone was used.
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Most building products have their day in the sun.
Trademarked names included insulbrick insulstone insulwood.
Asphalt brick look siding tags.
Device for marking artificial stone u s.
The homeowner has put vinyl siding over the rest of it.
The panels appear to be an asphalt type covering on top of a cardboard middle section then a backing.
Bricktex or brick tex faux brick siding insul brick rudely nicknamed ghetto brick permastone see perma stone exteriors of interest are these patents helping trace the history of brick tex like products.
Insulbrick was the preferred choice for replacement siding until aluminum and vinyl siding became available in the late 1950s.
Nailon and novi siding is composed of polypropylene a tough durable material that is more resistant to weather and easier to maintain than actual rock or brick.
Today thin panels of real brick are manufactured for veneer or siding.
This is ghetto brick.
Commonly made to look like brick faux brick asphalt building siding also appears in faux stone versions not to be mistaken for perma stone which has been sold since the 1960 s as an exterior wall covering and even in a wood shingle lookalike as well as a utilitarian covering that was unabashedly plain asphalt sheeting.
Sunset for this magic siding product happened in the 1960s.
Patent 833 675 issued october 16 1906.
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Aluminum siding took the marketplace by storm and the returning veterans from wwii didn t want their new houses covered with the material they grew up with.
That ghetto brick house on the corner has been rental property for as long as i can remember.
Asphalt siding was available from the 1930s to about 1960.
Houses clad in insulbrick can appear to be brick houses from a distance.
Often such siding is now covered over with newer metal or plastic siding.
As a rule tar paper and insulbrick were applied over wood siding.
