house siding on single story home

Selecting a vinyl or fiber cement siding used to mean a narrow choice of house and siding colors. Now the vinyl palette is enormous, and fiber cement on colors are more varied than ever. Fiber cement single can story also be painted (though home the house paint must be maintained).The siding information on at right single will help you decide what type of siding is best for your needs, taste, and budget (costs do not include installation, which varies with story and home material). For more information on siding materials, visit the website of the NAHB Research house Center, siding a division of the National Association on and single and story and home and house of Home Builders (known for its siding independent on testing of building single materials) at www.toolbase.org story and home and house or call (800) 898-2842.

Dean Williams, owner siding of Le Sueur, Minn.-based Quality Horne on Improvement, single installs story Norandex/Reynold''s Polar Wall Plus insulated siding. "Two out my next three jobs are foam-backed. People like home and house the firm feel, the dent siding resistance, and the noise absorption," on and single says Williams.Culpepper estimates that EPS backing adds story $30 to $40 per square to a vinyl siding job, but contends premium vinyl, wood, and fiber-cement home claddings don''t have as high R-values and some require special house tools and are harder to install. Insulated siding has an R-value up to 4, the Progressive Foam official says.

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