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The Best Siding Options for Your Home

Composite, Vinyl, and Fiber Cement Siding

If you're planning exterior improvements to your home, then there are a lot of siding options to consider. Depending on your choice, you can determine how much long-term value you get for your investment, not to mention how much maintenance work you’ll likely have to do over the years to keep your siding looking great.

Composite Siding

Composite siding is an exterior siding or cladding option that is growing in popularity across the country. This cladding option is made from scrap wood, such as sawdust and wood shavings, subsequently compressed and bonded together with resins. The manufacturing process makes composite siding impressively rot and insect resistant. The resins also drastically reduce the expansion of the composite boards when exposed to driving rain or moisture. There are several different types of composite siding products and manufacturers on the market. The durability of a given product will largely depend on its thickness and the materials used. For example, Everlast Composite Siding makes an extremely thick composite cladding. Their product is reportedly 500 percent thicker than vinyl, reduces noise pollution, and offers impressive durability. This product, however, is made from a blend of polymeric and inorganic minerals that resist moisture.

Vinyl Siding

Vinyl is made from durable materials, comes in a variety of colors and styles, typically requires less maintenance than wood exteriors. Insulated vinyl siding goes a step further than non-insulated vinyl siding by combining the insulation properties of a rigid foam board with a vinyl clapboard. With insulated vinyl siding your home gets a face lift and improved insulation – an important benefit for New England homes!

Fiber Cement Siding

Made primarily from recycled materials, fiber cement is gaining in popularity in New England as an alternative to vinyl siding. Fiber cement is a natural looking material that is fire resistant, can look like wood, stucco or masonry when applied, and is available pre-finished in a variety of colors, or pre-primed which can be painted.

What Does Bruin Recommend?

Composite siding provides optimal protection against the New England elements, and is available in many different materials and styles. Everlast Advanced Composite Siding is highly water resistant and impermeable to wood-boring insects. You also get a limited lifetime warranty that caters to material defects such as cracking, chipping, and peeling. The warranty covers fading and extends to hail damage if your insurance doesn’t cover it. Everlast’s advanced technology means your siding will never swell, bow, rot, expand, or contract – maintaining your home’s beautiful exterior, for life.