Hartford Courant (Sunday)

When it comes to siding, vinyl or wood?

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Tribune Content Agency al like true wood shakes. siding, even the lower-cost I would choose the shake These individual­s get up They interlock to make a shake imitators, is they just vinyl siding I saw two each day to feed their pasweather­proof barrier. don’t look like real wood up years ago. sion and treat what they do

That said, let’s consider close. You can short-circuit Years ago, I would have as a vocation, not just a job. traditiona­l vinyl siding that this issue to a degree if you answered no for a number However, each day there comes in bigger pieces. You use a special window, door of reasons. I had more are fewer of these muchcan get any number of and corner trim that has a energy back then and I needed individual­s. It’s designs that mimic wood built-in J channel that was not in love with the easy to come to this conclushak­es. Vinyl requires no hides the open end of the look of vinyl. But now I’m sion if you read the scads of maintenanc­e unless you vinyl siding. This trim older and I have the same frightenin­g requests for live in an urban area, where really looks like traditiona­l concerns about maintehelp I get each week on my it may require periodic painted wood trim and gets nance. You should be AsktheBuil­der.com webwashing to remove dirt andsite.ridofthetr­aditionalb­ulkyconcer­nedaboutma­intediesel truck exhaust soot. J-channel that makes most nance too. The primary My advice to you is to This siding installs so fast wince. reason I feel is the steadily lobby your public school that an experience­d crew Would I install vinyl on declining trend of finding system and do what you can side an entire house in my home? The answer is an excellent tradespeop­le can to bring back vocajust a few days. Some unequivoca­l yes. As with that will do the work for tional schools. We need to smaller housesyou.theymightm­anybuildin­gproducts, begin to foster that desire do in less than two days. vinyl siding is far enough Here’s a fact. There are to build things well in

The only negatives I can down the developmen­t great craftsmen and craftsyoun­g adults before they come up with when it timeline that many of the women in the residentia­l succumb to perfume and comes to traditiona­l vinyl bugs have been worked out. constructi­on industry. gasoline fumes.

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