What is Corrugated Siding?
Corrugated siding is an outer building cover made up of corrugated or ridged sheets of metal, fiberglass or vinyl attached in either horizontal or vertical patterns. Siding is called corrugated when it has been pressed or produced in the factory in a hill-and-valley pattern, with a half-inch (1.27 cm) depth to each valley. The most common corrugated siding is made of galvanized steel. The corrugations in corrugated siding provide strength to the sheets of material, and allow them to be fastened to a framework with studs or cross members set much further apart than normal non-corrugated material. The corrugations in corrugated siding give flat material the rigidity required to withstand denting and bulging. Corrugated metal siding is widely used for farm and ranch buildings as it is a sturdy and inexpensive building material. This siding comes in different strength gauges for thickness of material, and different lengths, though most is manufactured in 27 1/2 inch (69.85 cm) widths, whic
