What is your opinion on vinyl siding? archived
OMG. Oldstone goes over to the dark side. What's next? Polyester shirts?
) I'm telling you ! There is a house, the next street over, that was sided a few years ago and I think the house looks pretty good. Neat as a pin.
Why nan? Also, the house is even better insulated afterward potentially lowering energy costs. There are siding options too...they have siding that looks like cedar shingles, not just clapboard. Some siding is ugly though.
I've recently done a bunch of house hunting, and I've seen some vinyls that are incredibly wood-like. So I'd say it depends on the product they use and the job they do. Our old house had vinyl siding, and it was very high end, insulated stuff. The only thing I didn't like was where there was a long stretch of unbroken lines across the gable over the garage doors. They couldn't span it with a single course of the vinyl, so you could see the seams that ran across three lines of vinyl, if you know what I mean. It was a dead giveaway, and I hated it, but there wasn't any real solution.
Our house was sided by the previous owners. We bought in 1999 and the total cost to maintain it has been 3k in 12 years to powerwash it every couple of years. Do I wish it weren't sided? Yes. Am I happy I don't have to paint it every 5 years? Absolutely. IMO our house is nice.
If you remove the old paint before painting you should be good for at least a decade.
Oldstone said:
Why nan? Also, the house is even better insulated afterward potentially lowering energy costs. There are siding options too...they have siding that looks like cedar shingles, not just clapboard. Some siding is ugly though.
Look at the details, such as how they handle the sills around the windows, etc. Sucks the charm right out. I think it looks slightly better on split levels or more modern houses. But, as wood becomes a rarer commodity, this is what makes 1920's houses so valuable. They don't build many wood-sided houses anymore, so you have some thing rare. Keep it.
I do get the issue with cost though. I think if you can save money by finding a color that you like and sticking with it--at least some painting companies will let you repaint the same color cheaper without having to sand down to the wood. My neighbor did that once and it was only $3K.
Good points, all. There is no imminent danger, I'm just thinking out loud.
Honestly, its far more practical than the insanity we go through in our towns of sanding, scraping, priming, and repainting again & again.
But while in my previous town, a house without vinyl would have been harder to sell, I think in these towns, a house with vinyl would be harder to sell.
The new Hardi siding, though, is the best of both worlds. Truly indistinguishable from clapboard or shakes, but nearly maintenance free. It is, however, a heck of a lot more than installing vinyl over old siding.
But while in my previous town, a house without vinyl would have been harder to sell, I think in these towns, a house with vinyl would be harder to sell.
The new Hardi siding, though, is the best of both worlds. Truly indistinguishable from clapboard or shakes, but nearly maintenance free. It is, however, a heck of a lot more than installing vinyl over old siding.
My house, admittedly not in m/so had aluminum siding when we bought it. It started looking shabby, and we knew we needed to remove it but had no idea what was under it, or what condition it was in. We opted for vinyl siding,and we love it.
We were able to customize trim and gutter colour, and we got the type that looks like cedar shakes. Most people don't realize it isn't wood siding.
Os, if you're interested in looking at it, i'll give you my address.
We were able to customize trim and gutter colour, and we got the type that looks like cedar shakes. Most people don't realize it isn't wood siding.
Os, if you're interested in looking at it, i'll give you my address.
Pete, I take it you mean the Hardi siding is more expensive than putting up vinyl? do you know how much more? We've thought of doing something like that the next time we have to re-do siding, but I've never know just how much it costs.
My Dad was a fireman, he always said sided homes were a death trap. Don't know if the products have changed or not...
I haved vinyl siding. The realtors call it "maintenance free". I never even thought about it....ahhh life outside of Maplewood. We put up colored lights at Christmas too.
Kismet, could you explain that? What KIND of sided home? Even cedar shingles are a kind of siding.
Hardie is cement-fiber board. It is paintable but most people set it with the color baked in. It goes on much like wood siding but is heavier and dustier to cut. It seems that most new homes in my area (Millburn/SH) are going up with some variety of cement-fiber board siding. It does look good and will not rot.
We have asbestos shingles. Can't buy those any more so we replace broken ones with cement shingles. It does look good. We just had our house painted, and it was nice NOT to need to sand it. Our garage has wood siding so they did sand it.
Both the asbestos and the cement shingles are brittle, and screws don't hold in them. So they're not perfect but they're good. Oh they're mighty heavy too. I can only carry a few at a time.
Both the asbestos and the cement shingles are brittle, and screws don't hold in them. So they're not perfect but they're good. Oh they're mighty heavy too. I can only carry a few at a time.
We have Aluminum siding over Wood Siding. The paint is starting to look bad and we have been considering doing a pain job as well. We also go the Sears advertisement. Does anyone have experience with them?
Vinyl hides a multitude of sins.You can have a poorly detailed vinyl sided house where water is getting behind the siding and creating some real problems but which appears pristine at a glance.Cedar Impressions is the one that looks like shakes and is probably the most expensive.
Tom_Reingold said:
We have asbestos shingles. Can't buy those any more so we replace broken ones with cement shingles. It does look good. We just had our house painted, and it was nice NOT to need to sand it. Our garage has wood siding so they did sand it.
Both the asbestos and the cement shingles are brittle, and screws don't hold in them. So they're not perfect but they're good. Oh they're mighty heavy too. I can only carry a few at a time.
Tom - What's your source for fiber cement replacements? We have asbestos too and need to replace a few.
Oldstone,
IMO siding never looks quite right - even if the company gets the edges around the window sills OK the clapboard shadows always look "off" - the same way the snap-in window mullions don't work with an old house.
I got the Sears offer too - it's not for old houses like we have here.
IMO siding never looks quite right - even if the company gets the edges around the window sills OK the clapboard shadows always look "off" - the same way the snap-in window mullions don't work with an old house.
I got the Sears offer too - it's not for old houses like we have here.
Aug 12, 2011 at 7:26am Edited
Ugh... vinyl siding... yuck, yuck, yuck.
In a community of older, established homes like Maplewood, I think it sticks out like a sore, tacky thumb....
In a community of older, established homes like Maplewood, I think it sticks out like a sore, tacky thumb....
Aug 12, 2011 at 7:30am Edited
ice said:
Ugh... vinyl siding... yuck, yuck, yuck.
In a community of older, established homes like Maplewood, I think it sticks out like a sore, tacky thumb....
Not all of Maplewood looks the way you are portraying it. I grew up on Brookwood Dr in a three family house with aluminum siding. My grandfather bought the house in the 1950's that way and took great care, as did everyone else on the block, with the facades of their homes. Most of the homes on the block were sided. Somehow we were still considered as living in Maplewood and we loved our neighborhood. ugh....
Peggy C-Believe Dad was referring to aluminum and vinyl ...held heat in or could melt
There's a house on our street with siding that melted when their grill was too close - it's like getting a ding on your car door, if they decide to replace it they have to take out a lot of house to repair a section that's only about 4 foot square :-(
As an educational experience, I may have them give me an estimate. Just for the fun of it.
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