Dont install Vinyl Siding

Caulking-Gunn · 2014-05-14T01:19:50+00:00

Recently there was a huge fire in a city near my home. I saw it on TV, and I drove past the remains today. The old 2 story business with 5 apartments on the second floor (The building where the fire began), was leveled. Four other homes and two garages were also leveled. There are some bulldozers there, because they will be removing all the rubble soon. The news reports said that nothing can be salvaged. One partly burned garage was already demolished (immediately after the fire), because it was leaning against a home that did not burn. But the part that caught my eye were other buildings nearby that are still standing. All of those buildings which have vinyl siding, even those as far away as a block, have siding all warped and/or falling off. Some places have large blobs of this siding melted together at the base of the house. The buildings with painted wood siding were not damaged, except those directly next to the fire, where the paint was charred in spots. If you suspect there will ever be a fire in your neighborhood, DO NOT install vinyl siding. It does not hold up in heat.

May 14, 2014 26 Replies

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clare 12 years ago

Not that I'm aware of. Kaycan. Gentec. and Mitten are only 3 of many companies still selling it in the USA and Canada (both)

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clare 12 years ago

Mine is brick on the bottom and aluminum on the top. 42 years old - we repainted the aluminum with a top quality alkyd modified acrylic lated about 5 years ago because the paint was getting thin and almost transparent in places (white). It is wood-grain embossed and fiber backed.

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clare 12 years ago

Shake saws were a common way of making shakes years ago - a circular saw with a device to set up alternating taper (rip, not crosscut) cuts.

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clare 12 years ago

Never had any radio, tv, or celular reception problems with my aluminum siding

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clare 12 years ago

First of all, who in their right mind would clean siding with ACETONE?????.

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Terry Coombs 12 years ago

And I have the tooling and probably most of the materials needed to build a bandsaw version if needed ... including go-cart wheels and an unused

2-stroke enging w/built-in clutch . Useta power a tiller until I stripped the worm gear . Bonus if I saw them , grain isn't quite as critical . -- Snag

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Harry K 12 years ago

Dunno if it is mentioned in the link but a common way of making a froe starts with a section of leaf spring from a car that has the eye already formed.

Harry K

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