Bad Lp Siding

I was visited by 3 men representing 3 different companies at a jobsite in east tennessee.

Bad lp siding.

It used to be stucco but moisture intrusion problems with stucco siding made many high end home builders start using james. 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. Cedar textured joint cover model 421358 9 12 9 12. Lp smartside is the new high end siding of choice here in minnesota.

Vinyl siding is primarily composed of polyvinyl chloride pvc and the manufacturing process produces greenhouse gases such as nitrogen oxide and. View the lp smartside trim siding 31 98 31 98. 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. 1 was from lp.

Their intent was to sell me the lp smart siding and trim. New lp smartside 3 8 in. The siding had typical swelling at the edges and was clearly delaminating. Set your store to see local availability add to cart.

My opinion is and always has been that swelled recalled moisture compromised lp siding should be replaced. Learn more about our engineered wood siding and trim. Regardless of the maintenance nearly all lp siding installations i look at from this era have failed at least certainly to some degree.