The Spruce cladding guide

Nordic spruce wood cladding is an attractive, durable, and economical solution for covering the exterior facades of houses or apartment buildings. Sourced from PEFC-certified Scandinavian forests, this softwood is distinguished by its light color, fine grain, and good dimensional stability. To ensure its longevity outdoors, it is essential to apply a preservative treatment and a suitable finish.

Key points to remember?

• Origin and essence: Nordic spruce, a Scandinavian softwood with a straight grain and small, healthy knots, offering a clear and natural appearance.
• Technical characteristics: Soft wood (~475 kg/m³), good dimensional stability, use class 3.1 after preventive treatment.
• Adaptability: Suitable for exterior cladding, interior paneling, framing, and battens; can be dried, kiln-dried, or heat-stabilized depending on use.
• Durability and maintenance: Requires preventive treatment and a finish (saturator, stain, or paint) to withstand the elements and prevent graying.
• Aesthetics and installation: Provides a natural and warm finish; can be installed vertically or horizontally depending on the desired style, with a wide range of possible finishes.

Spruce wood cladding stands out for its technical and aesthetic qualities, making it a popular choice for facades and interior design. Lightweight yet strong, it offers good dimensional stability, a fine grain, and a natural light color that blends easily with all architectural styles. To take full advantage of its benefits, it is important to understand its main characteristics, from its origin to its uses, in order to choose the most suitable cladding for your projects.

Characteristics of spruce wood

Northern spruce cladding has a number of specific characteristics:

• A very light shade
• Fine grain
• A straight wire
• Healthy, tight knots.
• Surface cracks: small, narrow cracks running the length of the blade.

Spruce is suitable for both interior and exterior projects. Northern spruce can be dried, steamed or heat-stabilised for indoor or outdoor use.

Spruce interior panelling

There are different types of spruce panelling to suit a multitude of interior design projects. Spruce panelling is highly aesthetic, making it quick and easy to cover a wall and add a unique touch to your interior. Play around with the width of the boards for a very contemporary look. There are also different types of finish: untreated, whitewashed, etc. Whether installed vertically or horizontally, in a kitchen, bedroom or bathroom, spruce panelling is a chameleon that adapts to all your projects to create a unique ambience that reflects your personality.

Spruce exterior wood cladding

Spruce is not a naturally durable wood for exterior use such as wood cladding. It needs a preservative treatment and a finish for long-lasting exterior use. With a saturator finish, spruce cladding can be easily installed on the outside of a house or apartment block. Find out more about saturators.

To ensure that spruce cladding is installed correctly, the rules set out in DTU 41.2 must be followed.

Vertical spruce cladding

Vertical spruce cladding with board-and-batten offers an elegant, modern look. This installation technique enhances the façade of your house or building, giving an impression of finesse and slenderness. This type of installation facilitates rainwater drainage.

 Horizontal spruce cladding

The horizontal installation technique for spruce cladding gives the building a traditional look. It accentuates the natural effect of the spruce wood and gives the façade a stretched look.

Are you planning to install spruce cladding on the front of your house? Would you like to know the price per m2 of spruce cladding for the interior or exterior of your home or building? How much does spruce cladding cost? To find out, download our price list for cladding.

All our spruce cladding is made from wood from PEFC-certified Scandinavian forests. All our wood cladding boards are manufactured on our production site in France, in the Haute-Savoie region.

At Sivalbp, we have several ranges of spruce cladding for exterior facades and several ranges of spruce panelling for interior walls.

Sivalbp spruce cladding

At Sivalbp, we offer several ranges of spruce wood cladding to suit all your projects

• Spruce cladding, Elegance range : our Elegance range of spruce cladding comes in a range of wood tones to bring out the wood's natural grain.
• New Age range spruce cladding : to anticipate the effects of time and the natural ageing of wood, New Age range spruce cladding is for you.
• Spruce cladding, Colors range : our Colors spruce cladding comes in a range of colours to suit all your projects.

Sivalbp spruce panelling

At Sivalbp, we also offer several ranges of wood panelling for your interior projects.

• Spruce panelling Drywood & Steamwood range : choose our Drywood range of spruce panelling & Steamwood to bring a Scandinavian touch to your home.
• Spruce panelling, Fahrenheit range : for a warm, authentic touch, we offer a range of Ecothermo spruce panelling from the Fahrenheit range. To find out all about our EcoThermo process, read our dedicated article.

Spruce wood cladding combines natural aesthetics, performance, and environmental friendliness. Suitable for both new construction and renovation projects, it offers an elegant and durable solution for cladding your exterior walls. By choosing Sivalbp, you are choosing a high-quality product, manufactured in France and sourced from sustainably managed forests. Do you have a spruce cladding project? Contact our wood experts!