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Designing with Vinyl Siding

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Designing Style: A Guide to Designing with Today’s Vinyl Siding showcases nine house designs, each featuring a style used as a precedent from the Colonial, Romantic, Victorian and Eclectic periods of architecture. Each featured style offers an explanation of its distinguishing characteristics — typical profiles, colors, trim, and accessories — and how you can recreate or customize those styles using vinyl and other polymeric siding.

Why vinyl siding for today’s residential architectural designs? High-tech engineering; quality manufacturing; miniscule environmental impact; and an unparalleled choice of shapes, profiles, soffit, trim, accessories, finishes, and colors.

Whether it’s the simple beauty of the Cape Cod with its distinctive cedar shakes or the vastly eclectic look of a Queen Anne with its gabled façades and ornate embellishments, polymer-based solutions are up to the task. Vinyl siding, insulated siding, and polypropylene siding are the only exterior claddings with third-party product certification validated by an independent, accredited quality control agency. Because our siding products meet or exceed industry standards, and because our manufacturers generally offer lifetime warranties, you can rest assured that your designs will stand the test of time (and weather). Each certified product is also eligible for additional certification for color retention, so your designs won’t fade … literally or figuratively.

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The Truth About Vinyl Siding vs. Brick

Vinyl siding is the number one choice of remodelers, builders and homeowners. Used alone or in combination with other exterior cladding, vinyl and other polymeric siding deliver undeniable curb appeal at the most affordable price. An impressive list of benefits includes lasting beauty, durability, extremely low maintenance, sustainability and great value.

Some competitors continue to make claims that simply are not true. In this brochure, we present the facts about vinyl siding and important things to consider about brick.

Facts:

Beauty

• Vinyl siding offers an impressive variety of profiles and shapes, with ideal choices to suit virtually any architectural style; an ever-increasing spectrum of colors, including darker options and period colors; and comprehensive architectural trim options and accessories in matching and complementary colors.
• While recognized for its attractive appearance, brick’s limited variations and color options are not suited for popular architectural styles, including Queen Anne and Craftsman. Because accessories are not available in brick, many brick homes rely on high-maintenance trim (e.g., wood) to complete the look.

Installation

• Vinyl siding has the lowest total installed cost of any exterior cladding.  An independent agency ensures that certified vinyl siding installers are trained and tested on ASTM-accepted application techniques.
• Brick’s labor-intensive process equates to higher installation cost; about 420 percent more expensive than vinyl siding. Due to weight, it is more expensive to ship to job site.

Environmental Impact

• Vinyl Siding qualifies as an environmentally preferred product.  Per BEES software analysis, has lower environmental impact than brick in total embodied energy, global warming potential and criteria air pollutants
• Per BEES software analysis, brick’s effects on global warming are three times greater than those of vinyl siding

Value

• Vinyl siding is has the lowest total installed cost of any exterior cladding; has no long-term maintenance costs; no evidence of different appreciation rate of property value compared to other types of exterior cladding; and lifetime, transferable warranties are available
• Brick is nearly 400 percent more expensive material cost than vinyl siding and maintenance to re-point joints adds to life cycle cost of the home

Manual de Instalación de Revestimiento Vinílico

Este manual establece las directrices básicas para la instalación de revestimiento vinílico. Las instrucciones contenidas aquí se basan, en parte, en la norma ASTM D4756 Standard Practice for Installation of Rigid Poly(Vinyl Chloride) (PVC) Siding and Soffit, el método estándar de instalación del revestimiento y el sofito vinílicos. Se ha añadido información actualizada según se ha necesitado.

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