house-siding

Vinyl siding provides an easy way to maintain that most difficult part of the house. The soffit and facia requirer a ladder to paint, so vinyl or pre-painted aluminum or other metal eliminate the need for paint.

On other houses that we've owned, I've seen RL struggle to keep up with the painting of the facia of the house-siding. It would peel from exposure to the elements and require maintenance every year or two.

With vinyl soffit and facia, all that effort to keep up with mother nature's effect on the house is not necessary. The only thing that might happen is in the event of high wind, some of the vinyl pieces may blow off if they are not put on properly. Also, if cheap materials are used, they may blow off in high winds.

We recently experienced some vicious winds that did a lot of damage to many homes around our area. In some cases, entire sides of vinyl siding blew off of houses. Others lost shingles and facia.

Our house's siding, shingles, soffit & facia were all put on by the same contractor and we breathed a sigh of relief when we realized we lost nothing in the wind. It told the truth about our sub that we hired. He was good, and knew his business. We'll use him again on our next two houses.