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siding vs painting
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Metal siding definetly interferes with cell phone reception
vinyl is
a better choice
Honestly your better off with siding, your existing wood probably has
lead based paint
Repaining is a never ending job, and when it comes
time to sell low maintence is a advantage.
Low maintenance may be considered an advantage by some, but many people
prefer the look of real wood. Well maintained, quality, real wood,
always looks better than siding. If it didn't, you'd see vinyl siding
on custom high end homes, yet you never do. Put vinyl on one of those
homes and you'd lower the market value, because then it would look like
one of the cookie cutter homes.
unless your home is in a historic district!...............
Expect siding to cost about 4 times the cost of repainting.
If it costs 4X the price of painting, then the savings in maintenance
costs is questionable. Assuming you paint a wood home every 8 years,
it would take 32 years to break even, and that is without discounting
the present value of money. Factor that in, and it's probably 40+
years, which is about the life of vinyl siding. Plus, with paint you
can change the color periodically if you want a different look.
figure painting abut every 7 years to keep house looking good. every 10
is pushing it. the longer between repaints the more the wood repair.
that adds costs too.
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