Posted: 6/10/2004 6:42:53 AM EDT
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I am conducting a major house renovation and have come to a fork in the road. I live close to the Illinois / Wisconsin border so we get a pretty wide swing in climate. I am finding myself going back and forth between wanting to clad the house in either vinyl siding or cement lap siding. Do any of you have cement lap on your current residence? How does it hold paint? How long are you getting between paintings? Both products have their merits, but the cement is looking more appealing, I just don't want to be repainting on a very regular basis. |
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When I remodeled my house the biggest mistake I did was use vinal siding. I was going to use heart redwood but it's all gone. The stuff they sell now is just notty crap. I heard that some areas in this country had major issues with pressed boards so that was a no go as well. We have a very large custom home that is just to nice for vinal. I now have to eat the cost (near $20,000) and redo it. My sister redid her house with colored stucco and it looks nice. She never has to paint but could if she wanted. Her window openings got accented with styrofoam blocks around them then covered with stucco. It looks nice. She has a decent sized one story house about 2800sqft and just did the front section. It cost about $8,000. They even left her several bags to fix anything in the future. |
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Here is something I have been looking at. http://www.newspray.net started to hear about it after the spray on armor thread. The guy came out to the house last night. Their sample is on that hardy plank stuff. Guarrentied for life against fade, rot, bubbling etc. the warranty from the company is for 5 years for everything, after that they only cover the cost of the product. The company that applies it for you, covers the rest of you lifetime warranty for labor according to the person we saw. They have a whole color book about 1500 choices. It is about half the cost of vinyl siding. |
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I was going to do Hardi, but looks like I'll be backing off into the big V. The people who advertize themselves as Hardi installers are charging outrageous prices. I've got a 1700sqft colonial. I estimated that I need about $3,000 worth of prefinished hardi. I'm getting quotes back of about $18,000 WITHOUT trim work. From my research, it looks like you should expect installation to cost 2-3 times the cost of the material, but as you can sed, that's a bit more. I was going to have a carpenter I know do it, but hardy is so heavy, that you need to hit the studs in all cases, and I'm not sure I trust anyone to do that properly. My house is sheathed with the 1984 version of celotex type stuff, and I'm sure it won't support the weight on the nail alone. I'm going to end up having my some areas of my hardboard replaced, and then vyinled over by an expert. |
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You may want to look at aluminum siding. I had aluminum siding that never needed painting on a house in Stafford, VA. It looked great. Never a problem. I guess you could dent it if you hit it with something hard enough. Currently have cement siding that must be painted every 5 years for $2500. |