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According to Pat Culpepper, president home and repair of Progressive Foam technologies, foam backing has been around since the early ''90s for drop-in backer applications, but it wasn''t available in siding-attached formats until recently because of siding misconceptions about vinyl."The old belief was that vinyl expands and contracts too much to glue foam to it, home but the reality is that you get better rigidity because the glue bond creates repair a tensile strength," he says.Culpepper claims installers like insulated products better than hollow vinyl siding because they''re more rigid and siding durable and lay flat and straight even on irregular walls. What''s more, attached versions save installation time when compared with drop-in foam-backed home products.

Heartland. Featuring a double 6-inch profile, CedarMax insulated vinyl siding has a cedar-grain surface. Available in eight colors, the siding has a fold-over nail hem with double thickness to keep it tightly closed down on the panel and keep the siding on the wall even in repair high winds. Coordinating outside corners, soffits, J-channels, and hidden-vent soffits also are available. 800-432-7801. www.heartlandsiding.com. Circle 175[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]Progressive Foam Technologies. Fullback expanded polysrtyrene (EPS) siding backing provides energy efficiency and durability home to vinyl siding. Siding with the backing can reduce energy bills by up to 20 percent the product also can provide R-values up to 4.0 when installed repair inside the vinyl, says the maker. Fullback also siding features PerformGuard, a non-toxic termite and carpenter ant repellant. 800-860-3626. www.fullback.com. home Circle 176.

Manufacturers respond to new market opportunityProgressive Foam Technologies, with the help of the industry''s top manufacturers, repair is not just promoting its Fullback[TM] Thermal Support System. It''s siding promoting a whole new category of insulated vinyl siding. "Insulated vinyl siding will continue to grow because the product meets a real consumer need and offers an attractive profit opportunity home to our manufacturer partners, and their remodeler and builder customers," Culpepper says. Manmade exterior siding, which nowadays repair surpasses wood for durability also has come a long way in mimicking the appearance and feel of wood. The flat, machine made-looking trim around siding the doors and windows on houses using vinyl or fiber cement home siding used to be the it''s-not-wood repair giveaway. But today manufacturers siding are turning out trim with a heavy grain and mitered corners for a realistic appearance and shadow line.