Siding - Metal And Vinyl

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Increasingly, new finishing material is used for facing houses and summer cottages. Siding - metal and vinyl. If you look at the country and garden houses built in Soviet times, then almost all of them are sheathed outside with either clapboard or tongue-and-groove boards. However, there was nothing else then.

The wood sheathing was very short-lived: it rotted from rain and snow, dried out and warped under the influence of the sun's heat, and was destroyed by wood-eating insects and wood-boring ants. And the appearance of a house with such a cladding was not at all impressive … With constant care, such cladding served for 15-20 years.

Siding has

become a real breakthrough in the cladding of any houses and buildings.

: both metal (Figure 1-a), and much more often used - vinyl (Figure 1-b) or, as it is also called, vinyl lining. And although vinyl siding has been used in many countries for over 50 years, in Russia it is still in its "adolescence". He just turned 20 years old.

The use of metal siding (steel or aluminum), located at a certain angle to the walls, creates a very reliable structure that does not fade in the sun, resistant to any destructive effects from solar radiation to sudden temperature changes in the range from -60 ° C to + 120 ° C … The guaranteed service life of metal siding is 30 years.

True, steel siding is susceptible to corrosion, and aluminum siding poorly resists external mechanical damage, after which non-rectifiable dents remain. In addition, the significant weight of the cladding requires a reliable way of fixing the panels to the wall, so as not to create additional loads on the foundation.

Vinyl siding is a figured panel consisting of 80% polyvinyl chloride (PVC), reinforced with shape stabilizers and a titanium hardness layer. Vinyl lining occupies a dominant position in the outer cladding of residential buildings and industrial premises. And this is no coincidence, because it has exceptional performance characteristics:

• environmentally friendly material;
• warranty period - 50 years;
• it is used both for reconstruction and for new construction: garden and manor houses, cottages, retail facilities, industrial and public buildings. Installed on any type of surface (on wood, stone, brick, concrete, plastered walls);
• non-toxic, does not support combustion (it only melts in fire);
• resistant to harmful atmospheric influences: moisture, ultraviolet radiation;
• frost-resistant, able to withstand temperature fluctuations from + 50 ° С to -50 ° С;
• does not change color, does not corrode, does not rot and is not damaged by insects;
• a titanium layer of stiffness can withstand serious deformation loads;
• there is a fairly wide variety of colors and patterns, all kinds of combinations of tones, imitation of both a rough matte structure of natural wood, and tiles, stone, bricks. All this can satisfy almost any aesthetic needs of the customer;
• simple and convenient in operation, does not require painting or updating during the entire service life. The rain washes away dust and most of the dirt from the walls. To maintain a naturally tidy look, just wash the siding paneling with plain water and a garden hose detergent, or simply wipe it down with a washcloth. No other processing is required;
• siding with an anti-hurricane lock easily withstands the pressure of even the most violent raging elements and keeps the facade of the house intact.

… Siding panels suit both horizontally and vertically. A fairly stable practice has developed in construction, when vertically oriented panels are used mainly in decorative cladding of utility and commercial premises.

The profile of horizontal panels is in the form of a double "ship's beam" or "herringbone". In both cases, the surface of the siding panels is at an angle to the wall. As a result, they form, as it were, a small visor above each other, which does not allow atmospheric precipitation to penetrate under the skin. And this, in turn, allows you to keep warm in winter and provide sufficient ventilation in summer. In a word, siding is a material for all times …