Recently my home got hell damage on the aluminum siding. My insurance company offered changing two sides of the house. A contractor company offered us to replace all sides with Vinyl with same amount of money. I worried about the value of the house will be affected by changing from Aluminum to Vinyl siding, is my concern reasonable? We live in north-midwest US area where the temperature are relatively low all year around.
I am new to home stuff, should I replace all sides to Vinyl? can someone give some suggestion?
Replacing two sides will probably look like crap unless it is new and easily matched. IMO, vinyl will add, not subtract, from the value of the house. Use a good brand and it will last 50 years.
simply shreds vinyl to ribbons here and exposes the underlayment and more during severe storms so I personally wouldn't consider it. The AL siding gets dented, of course, but doesn't normally get totally torn through as vinyl so is still able to shed water. Not sure whether this was an aberration of a storm for your locale or not -- if it was very recent, this is quite an unusual time of year for severe hail in the northern US.
I'd probably go back w/ the aluminum if it were me, assuming they can get a reasonable match. There's steel siding on the house here and it has been through a number of severe hailstorms in the approx 30 years. It shows some dings and dents, particularly on the south side, but hasn't required replacing any, at least so far (knock, knock... :) ). We did miss the hail track from the really, really bad one that took out every roof and every window on the east and north sides of virtually every house in town three years ago this coming spring. It, of course, was a "mother of all hail storms" w/ baseball to softball-size hail and 80-90 mph wind for 45 minutes. That's a one- in-several-hundred kind of event, even here.
Anyway, if your area is anything like here, I'd stay away from vinyl.
This morning the repair company showed me .046'' Crane vinyl sidings. He also said the new vinyl siding will increase the value of the house. And his company did many replairs/replacement in the neibourhood. I think I will take his offer.
You DO NOT want vinyl siding. If this so called HELL damage is only on two sides, and that is all the insurance is offering to pay, then I'd challenge them to find a contractor that could replace two sides and make it match exactly.
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