Siding Materials

When you work with Joe, we believe it's important to let our customers "be in the know". Here is a run down of siding material options and explanations to learn about the best choice for your home.

Vinyl

Vinyl is the number one siding choice in North America, and with good reason. It is durable, low maintenance and is offered in a wide variety of color and style options. Because of vinyl's versatility, it is sure to offer you an architectural fit for your home. Choose panels, each offered in a broad pallet of colors and add touches of architectural trim to transform your house into the home of your dreams.

Advantages to Siding with Vinyl:

• Vinyl siding will not rot or flake.
• Vinyl is resistant to heat, cold & moisture
• Vinyl siding offers the widest variety of color options.
• It is the building material of choice for developers, contractors and homeowners associations.
• Vinyl siding has the ability to withstand high winds.
• Unlike wood siding, vinyl siding does not attract insects or provide a breeding ground for mildew.
• Vinyl siding is now available not only in the traditional pastels, but also in darker color combinations that are bold and rich. All colors are under fade warranty.
• You will never have to paint, ever.
• Vinyl adds value to your home.

Insulated Vinyl

Fullback®V siding insulation for vinyl will enhance the performance and appearance of your vinyl siding, while providing a number of other benefits, including energy savings!

Energy Efficiency: By installing Fullback®V vinyl insulation under your new siding, you can save more money. Depending on the specific siding product you choose, vinyl siding with Fullback®V can add 2.0-3.5 R-value to the walls of your home! Because the insulation is contoured to fill the gap between the siding and your home, it delivers maximum energy efficiency.

Durability: Vinyl siding with Fullback®V provides unequaled durability that can stand up to everything from hail, high winds, moisture and more! Your siding will be resistant to the impact of objects such as hail, rocks and even your son's fastball. It is like having a suit of armor on a soldier, giving you 300% more impact resistance than traditional vinyl siding alone. Vinyl siding with Fullback®V can sustain a category 5 hurricane winds (155 miles per hour) and it'll also keep water out of your wall system to help prevent molding, mildew and rotting.

Fullback®V siding insulation contains PREVENTOL®TM EPS, a systemic insecticide which protects the insulation from termites. The active ingredient in PREVENTOL®TM EPS is used at a low concentration and is safe for the homeowners and installers when handled properly.

Low Maintenance: Vinyl siding is virtually maintenance free! It never requires caulking, painting or scraping! And by adding Fullback®V siding insulation behind it, you reduce the potential for expensive and time consuming repairs from high winds, impact, moisture damage, pest infestation and more!

Appearance: No matter what the style of siding, it is meant to take the natural appearance of real wood. Fullback®V siding insulation achieves that by supporting vinyl where it would normally conform or bend to gaps behind it. There are imperfections behind any wall, but Fullback®V siding insulation helps to reduce the appearance of them. The overall look of your vinyl siding, when fully supported with insulation, is straighter. There are no design limitations with insulating. Fullback®V siding insulation for vinyl is available for any siding style, texture, and of course, color.

Environmentally Friendly: If you're wondering how adding new siding to your home will impact the environment, you can rest easy knowing that Fullback®V siding insulation is recognized as a green building product in more ways than one.

• Vinyl siding with Fullback®V doesn't require ozone-depleting maintenance products such as paints, stains or caulks like other siding alternatives.
• Once installed, a vinyl siding job with Fullbackk®V will remain in place without significant degradation for 50 years or more, reducing landfill deposits. Fullbackk®V siding insulation for vinyl is also recycleable throughout its life cycle.
• Fullbackk®V siding insulation saves as much carbon as it takes to manufacture the foam, in 2.6 years or less and it will saves as much energy as it takes to manufacture the foam, in 50 days or less!

Fiber Cement

We proudly install James Hardie® Siding Products
James Hardie provides innovative siding products that increase the beauty, value, safety and durability of your home. Enjoy the low maintenance that comes with baked-on color, and feel safe knowing that our siding products are resistant to just about anything Mother Nature can throw at them.

HardiePlank® Lap Siding: HardiePlank® Lap Siding is the most popular brand of siding in America and can be found on over 4 million homes. With its strength, beauty and durability, HardiePlank® siding enhances and protects homes in all kinds of climates.

HardieShingle® Siding: HardieShingle® siding has the same warm, authentic look as cedar shingles, yet it resists rotting, cracking and splitting. It's beautiful as a primary siding or as a complement to other styles of James Hardie® siding. Our shingle siding panels come in a variety of decorative edges, and expedite installation in larger areas.

HardiePanel® Vertical Siding: For applications that call for vertical siding, HardiePanel® vertical siding is equal to our lap siding in value and long-lasting performance. Because of its structural strength, HardiePanel® siding may be used as a shear panel. When combined with HardieTrim® planks, it can also help you achieve a board-and-batten look.

With all James Hardie® Siding Products, you can take advantage of their ColorPlus® Technology to get the look you want, without the maintenance. Call us to find out which James Hardie® Siding products with ColorPlus® finish are available in our area. Click here to find out more about James Hardie® Siding Products.

Aluminum

Formerly one of the most popular ways to side a home, aluminum is resistant to rust and is very lightweight. It is a very well-known insulator of heat and it is also water proof, so there is no painting, making this a relatively low maintenance siding option. However, homeowners do find aluminum to be susceptible to denting on impact and if in need of maintenance, it is not easily repairable.

Wood

Rectangular Planks: This type of siding is the easiest of the wooded sidings. These planks are extremely smooth and very flat which creates a superior insulator and allows very little moisture to penetrate. One thing, however, is that is must be weather treated annually.

Wood planks are very comparable to rectangular planks but these planks have special grooves in which they can interlock together for a much tighter finish; this tight connection also more additional protection from moisture.

Plywood: Plywood siding is extremely simple; just two pieces of plywood put together with anything from nails to a stronger adhesive. Plus, plywood is very cheap and quite easily installed.

Shingles are usually composed of either one of these items: redwood, cypress or cedar. Similar to clapboard, these form rows to overlap each other but are significantly smaller. Many homeowners stain or treat shingles but if they don't this reduces the life span and a replacement layer would have to come sooner. Lastly, shingles tend to warp after three to four years.

Shakes are somewhat similar to shingles but they're not created by a machine, shakes are hand-split. Like shingles, staining or treating increases the life span but they still warp after a number of years.

Clapboard is one of the most used types of siding made from wood and it's not nearly as smooth as rectangular planks. Unlike rectangular planks, these boards are placed on the house horizontally rather than vertically which creates a look of "evenness" on the house.