Bad Lp Siding

Vinyl siding manufacturing is bad for the environment while vinyl siding can help builders earn leed points the us green building council has declined to support a credit specific to vinyl use.

Bad lp siding.

Lp smartside engineered wood trim siding resists damage from impacts better than fiber cement and vinyl siding. My opinion is and always has been that swelled recalled moisture compromised lp siding should be replaced. Set your store to see local availability add to cart. I was visited by 3 men representing 3 different companies at a jobsite in east tennessee.

The siding had typical swelling at the edges and was clearly delaminating. Cedar textured joint cover model 421358 9 12 9 12. Vinyl siding is primarily composed of polyvinyl chloride pvc and the manufacturing process produces greenhouse gases such as nitrogen oxide and. Their intent was to sell me the lp smart siding and trim.

View the lp smartside trim siding 31 98 31 98. It used to be stucco but moisture intrusion problems with stucco siding made many high end home builders start using james. Free delivery with 45 order. 1 was from lp.

Regardless of the maintenance nearly all lp siding installations i look at from this era have failed at least certainly to some degree. The timing is a little fuzzy but to my understanding lp stopped making inner seal siding around 1996 and they started making a similar and improved product called smartside starting around 2000. Lp inner seal siding can be identified by the classic lp knot that is embossed into the siding see attached photo.