How to Choose Home Siding

Save Time & Energy, Add Beauty
Choosing new siding involves more than just picking out a color and having someone throw it on. New siding makes a powerful statement about your home and can help save energy and time.

Ease of Maintenance & Energy Savings
The first two considerations for siding should be ease of maintenance and energy savings. The underlayment system of your new siding should prevent air and water infiltration while increasing R Value and decreasing outside noise.

Important Siding Tip - Vinyl
Be careful when choosing siding. Many inexpensive brands do not offer enough pure vinyl to prevent cracking or lack the key elements needed to prevent fading.

Clean Up With Soapy Water
A high quality vinyl siding offers a superior underlayment system and resists peeling, cracking, waving, fading, and high winds. And you can throw away your paintbrush, when quality siding starts looking dull just clean it with a little soap and water to restore it to like new condition.

The Statement Your Home Makes
The next consideration is the kind of statement you want to make about your home. Quality manufacturers offer vinyl siding in a large variety of colors and styles that can be mixed and matched for just the look you want. You'll see siding that has the look and color real wood, including the popular cedar siding in various shapes, including half round and siding that looks like hand-split shakes.

Accessories
Choose a product that offers matching and contrasting trims, soffits, gutters, and a variety of beautiful accents.

After The Sale - Warranties
The most important, but often overlooked consideration, is how you are going to be treated after the sale and installation.

	What kind of warranty comes with your new siding?
	Will the company who installed it back their work?
	If something is wrong who will fix it?

Quality companies stand behind their products and services with lifetime warranties.

	Choose a company that stands behind their work 100 percent.
	Find out how they handle problems that may come up either during or after installation.
	Find out how committed they are to your satisfaction.
	If the siding fails make sure they will replace or repair it to like new standards.

Respect & Care
Your home is your biggest investment. Choose a siding contractor who will treat you and your home with care and offers you only high quality product that will add beauty and style to your home that you'll be proud of for years to come.

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