CLIMATE-SHIELD® WOOD RAINSCREEN SYSTEM

The Best Choice in Rainscreen Clips for Wood Siding

American made quality

The Climate-Shield Rainscreen System is the best rainscreen clip system for exterior hardwood and softwood siding on the market today. Climate-Shield is American made, manufactured in Portland, Oregon. Also, the Climate-Shield Rainscreen Siding System carries a full patent and 25-Year Limited Warranty.

With its unique Climate-Shield rainscreen clip and starter rail, the system is the most cost-effective system available for installing suitable wood species of hardwood or softwood siding material. Including: Ipe wood, Garapa, FSC Machiche, Jatoba (a/k/a Brazilian Cherry), Cumaru, ThermaWood Hem-Fir thermally modified wood, FSC Santa Maria, Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, and other suitable species of wood siding material.

The rainscreen clips, starter rail and other genuine Climate-Shield components are made from extruded marine-grade aluminum and the rainscreen system includes stainless steel screws for the ultimate in strength, durability and long life.

CS2 Climate-Shield Wood Rainscreen Clip, patented and all stainless steel

a Superior Siding System

The Climate-Shield Rainscreen System is designed to provide a superior siding envelope that protects and shelters your home or building from whatever type of weather may attack it.

Climate-Shield Wood Rainscreen System starter rail assembly detail cutaway photo

Durability, Long Life, & Maintenance Free

The heritage of the rainscreen system dates back to the Vikings of Scandinavia and the late 12th Century. Barns and stave churches using the original rainscreen systems still survive today and the quality of the wood and the design of the system are the reason.

Today many designers and builders strive to create the “100-year house”. By learning from our past we can certainly meet and exceed that goal. The Climate-Shield Rainscreen Wood Siding System is designed as an important tool for 21st century builders to create and build sustainable and living structures that can stand for centuries.

Ancient Norwegian Stave Church with a Wood Rainscreen System still stands today

Horizontal, Diagonal or Vertical Rainscreen Installation

We Guarantee: Ease of use; Cost Saving Application; Eliminates Furring Strips

This versatile rainscreen system allows your design team to use either softwood or hardwood siding material. The siding selected can be installed in the horizontal fashion. Or, you are free to install on the vertical or diagonal and still have all the efficiencies of a rainscreen system.

The revolutionary extruded Aluminum corner system provides the architect with limitless options to use different textures, colors, styles – you can even create your very own signature corner piece. Your team can opt for a conventional corner treatment or create unique designs with stunning contrasts of color or shape with the available Climate-Shield corner system. The corner system also provides amazing protection for the wood right where it needs it.

There are other rainscreen siding products on the market but none like the Climate Shield Rainscreen System. Climate Shield allows Architects, builders and owners the flexibility to install rainscreen siding horizontally, vertically or even diagonally without having to worry about how to layer furring strips or creating complicated designs for horizontal furring strips.

There is no need to worry about water being trapped behind traditional furring strips because the clip is the furring strip. In addition, the cost of the furring strips and the cost to install them is eliminated from the building budget.