Vinyl Siding

[clare]

I hired mine done. Whole job cost less than either the labour OR material to reside with vinyl - and significantly less than replacing the aluminum.

[Stormin Mormon]

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Wood is good, but vinyl is final?

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The vinyl will look real good when a kid throws a ball against it on a cold day. I've even seen hail take out vinyl when it was warm (the hail doesn't cool it that fast). I imagine even good aluminum will dent nicely bouncing a baseball off it, and that's the kind of thing tenants seem to do when it's not there own property. Wood is good.

[bob haller]

aluminum siding must be going up in price, and around here people steal it to sell to the scrap metal yards.

side with vinyl siding and while your at it add a nice layer of foam insulation. and cut your utility bills.

In pittsburgh vinyl siding lats near forever.

Most notably a brick home near where I grew up got sided with vinyl when I was a kid.

I am 54 so the siding is over 40 years old and still looks good today, although it needs a bath.

The homeowner of the time felt bad covering the brick but it was soft brick and detoriating badly.

hhe reported cutting his gas bill by half at the time, and cut his property tax bill too.

[trader4]

The OP has stated about 6 times now that it is cedar, which last time I checked is wood.

[trader4]

I'm all for saving on maintenance, headaches, but given the tradeoff in look between real wood and vinyl siding I would be perfectly fine with having it painted about every 10 years. Being a rental property, the work is also tax deductible. Around here you'd be lowering the value of the property by putting up vinyl or aluminum.

[krw]

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If you get enough heat to destroy the siding, the building is most likely a total loss anyway. I don't like vinyl because it looks like crap from day one. Vinyl-clad aluminum is a completely different animal, though.

[camryguy]

I suppose I should ad that I don't plan to remove the original cedar siding, merely just covering it up. Thoughts?

[krw]

Are you going to fur it out? The new siding may be wavy, if not.

[camryguy]

Thats a good point--When I go to get quotes, that will be one thing I'll ask. I don't want to spend my money just to have the house look worse!

[Steve Barker]

if it's vinyl, it'll be wavy no matter what. LOL!

[Steve Barker]

don't put siding on it then!

[krw]

If he uses vinyl with backing and furring strips, it'll be wavy^2. ;-)

[Steve Barker]

i wondered about that. I've NEVER heard of furring out for siding.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Let's look at the actual cost over 10 or 20 years and see what makes sense.

It is so easy to sit at the computer and tell others what is best, but getting out there sometimes changes the final decision.

[clare]

Well, unless the wood is in a LOT worse shape than at the front, I sure wouldn't cover it up. And if it IS, it needs to be removed - not covered. Just my opinion.

Haven't seen 40 year old altantic cedar shake siding looking that good in a long time.. It looked so good I was SURE it was asbestos cement "shingle" siding.

I'd paint it - but it's YOUR house.

[clare]

Unless the siding is removed and the job done RIGHT - it will. How do plan on adressing the fit of the siding around the windows? J-Molding?? Looks like crap. You want the siding to fit in behind the "brickmold" or whatever you call the part of the window that overhangs the siding like brickmold does on brick.. And you need it well caulked. You do NOT want moisture getting between the new vinyl and the old siding, trapped in there and causing rot.