Pre-graying of wooden facades

Hello, we are planning our house with a natural wood facade (larch or Douglas fir). Since our development plan requires a roof overhang and the graying on the roof overhangs usually occurs very unevenly, we are considering using a pre-gray wood facade. Does anyone have experience with pre-gray facades? How do they look after a few years? Can this really prevent uneven graying in the long term?

Hello, I have no experience with pre-weathering. I myself have larch on 2 façades, but almost without roof overhang, therefore a very consistent graying. While walking last week, I noticed a non-pre-weathered "façade" of a garage (rhombus slats, presumably larch) that looked quite different under the very large roof overhang of the main house compared to the rest. In addition, at the end of the DÜ there was an ugly rain streak in black-gray "decorating" the rhombus slats vertically. I would not like THAT :rolleyes:

Yes, I would definitely like to avoid these "rain streaks" on the roof overhang. I'm just not sure if the pre-graying can prevent that in the long run...

You then have the problem that the artificial graying first weathers away before the natural weathering comes. However, this also looks different from the artificial one in the upper part. It will always look as if the house needs a haircut.

Do you yourself have a wooden facade or is that your experience or your assumption? It probably also depends a lot on which pre-graying color you use and whether it somewhat matches the color of natural graying.

I actually only know a "stone washed legendary look" from the time when the Stustustudio Line was modern (I think the chancellor was still Schmidt back then).

Does anyone have experience with pre-greyed facades? What do they look like after a few years? Can you really prevent uneven greying in the long term with them?

Possibly with a rotating house, yes. Otherwise, the weather probably plays its game inevitably completely nasty and unfair, and the sunny side, windward side, etc. will always be uneven. I don't know to what extent this can possibly be counteracted with different "light protection factors" or the like.