About a vinyl siding or than to sheathe a facade?

About a vinyl siding or than to sheathe a facade? If the person meet on , the house on a facade. However the facade should be beautiful not only during the first meeting, but also after the lapse of many years. How to achieve it.? How to protect “person” of the house from a rain, snow, a wind, ultra-violet raying, temperature drops, otherwise, from ageing?

One of the most effective, aesthetic and at the same time inexpensive ways – siding installation.

In translation from English a word “siding” means a facade sheet work any hinged material. As a matter of fact, the tradition to cover a facade wooden вагонкой existed in Russia from time immemorial. But thin wooden to write are not too durable, processing by special structures against microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, a mould) and insects, and also colouring and regular updating of a decorative layer demand. Therefore recently in us hinged plates from more durable materials – steels, aluminium or vinyl became popular. The technology of their manufacturing has appeared in the USA and Canada more 50 years ago, from here and an English-speaking word – “siding”. At the same time today in the Russian market are presented not only western, but also home producers of a siding. To itself the vinyl siding has achieved a special arrangement of builders, about it and speech will go.

General data

The vinyl siding represents panels from polyvinylchloride (PVC), as a rule, in the thickness about 1 mm, width from 20 to 25 sm and length from 3 to 4 m. the Texture of laths reminds a surface  lumbers, and only at the most energy conserving panels it smooth more often. And the raised work happens convex or dented. Last variant is worse, as the dust is stemmed into oriels of the panel and more difficultly washed away. Under the form each panel simulates two (less often – three) the boards which have been nailed down . Recently a wide circulation the form of the panel with double crisis – so-called has received “a ship bar”. From below it has a bead-lock bent inside with which help it is latched on the panel of the previous number, from above – the punched bead for a nailing or to a wall, and also a reciprocal part of the clasp. The punched part is closed by a lath of the top number, therefore fixture elements are not visible. The length and height of a facade of value have no: From separate panels it is possible to collect a surface of any size, special vertical connecting the profile will allow to increase length of a siding tightly. For arrangement of adjunctions to windows, a sole plate or a roof also are provided special elements. Moreover, if necessary it is possible to establish panels or at an angle 45? In relation to a horizon line, truth, only in the places protected from a direct hit of a rain. Colours of a siding, as a rule, 8 – 10. Usually it is pastel shades, the most demanded in cottage building, besides well combined with a stone and a brick by which are retouched a sole plate, chimneys more often.

A production technique

The vinyl siding is made by a method . In general it looks so: the melted raw mix which besides polyvinylchloride includes dyes, modifiers, stabilizers and other additives, is pressed through by a press through a main aperture, then cools down, keeping the received form. For the consumer especially important, what version of this method was applied to manufacturing of a siding which it plans to get. In the first case the single layer panel, in the second – the monolithic product consisting of two layers, executed of different  (raw mixes) turns out.  it is considered more difficult and capital-intensive process that, naturally, affects siding cost. But and quality of the two-layer panel is considerable above. The matter is that exterior and internal layers carry out different functions. The exterior protects a facade from deposits and ultra-violet raying, internal is responsible for durability, heat – and frost resistance of the panel, for its ability to keep stable geometrical parametres. All these properties depend on modifiers and the stabilizers added in компаунд. A compounding at each manufacturer the. Domestic manufacturers of a siding assert that at the expense of a special raw mix of their product are more adapted for climatic features of Russia, and also to facade service conditions: panels possess the raised shock resistance, therefore to damage by their unsuccessfully “entered” truck or a banal garden barrow it is more difficult (do not forget: the siding is painted in mass that also promotes safety of its exterior). The foreign companies involve in the production with longer experience of manufacture of vinyl panels. As a whole a qualitative siding – the finishing material possessing variety of conclusive advantages upon which it is necessary to dwell.

Advantages

As the siding is intended for exterior refinishing of a building, the basic question – how much it is steady against an adverse weather patterns in which Russia stays the most part of year. We answer: vinyl panels of a rack to any atmospheric phenomena, including acid rains, they maintain vacillatings of temperatures from-50? To +50? With, without exfoliating, without being shelled and without being blown up, they are not subject to impacts of rust, fungi and insects, do not change colour in due course (solid manufacturers give a 15-year-old warranty of a colour resistance of panels, considering thus that in practice they will be reliable and beautiful unlimited time). The small comment to the told: there are opinions that the vinyl siding badly maintains sharp change of temperature. Really, panels from PVC possess big enough factor of a longitudinal expansion and compression, however for indemnification of it the punched apertures on the top bead of a lath have the special form allowing to a siding “without serious consequences” to extend, and then to accept initial position. For the same purposes the nail is nailed down leaky, and with a clearance space in 2 mm.

It is possible to carry to advantages of a vinyl siding and that it a non-toxic, non-polluting material. Besides, it not горюч: getting under a naked flame, the panel only slowly , thereby reducing fire impact by a building design. It is necessary to note one more feature of a siding – it raises  houses. Besides under finishing panels it is easy to hide a layer of a thermal protection (nonflammable) and if its use seems to you expensive it is quite possible to be limited пергамином – all the same in the house will be warmer. By the way, warming walls in the similar way, you do not reduce a building useful area. It is not necessary to worry about heater fanning: In panel butt ends special apertures are provided (water through them under a siding does not get), plus to it punching on its top bead, plus some space for air in places of joints of panels – all cracks small, but in whole them it turns out enough that air circulated, so that in a heater the condensate was not formed.

Vinyl siding very easy that simplifies transportation. It is simple in installation, moreover, they can retouch walls of any type (wooden, brick or concrete), and both new, and a reconstructed building. Unlike front facing plaster or a paint the siding does not demand wall thorough training. On the contrary, if the surface rough, a siding hides defects. At last, the most important thing: at all advantages the siding is more low-cost than other finishing materials (from 4,5 at. e. / sq. m of a qualitative siding).

Dobornye elements

The facade is not only equal wall, it also mass of corners, knots of adjunctions. In siding system are provided special доборные elements which simultaneously equip all difficult lots of a facade, keeping tightness of facing, and aesthetically finish shape of the house. We will list the most widespread accessories. The starting lath is applied to making fast of the first panel of a siding. The finishing lath tightly finishes a horizontal lot of a siding (under a corbel, with околооконной a lath and a wind board). The J-profile is used for a fringing of door, window and other apertures, and also for end of a sheet work of a frontispice of the house. By means of external and internal corners joints of walls are retouched. The N-profile basic purpose – vertical connection of panels of a siding. He allows to “increase” length of a siding, at the same time giving to a facade more elegant sort. The drain lath is applied to decorative refinishing of adjunctions to a jutting socle part of a facade. Wind and  laths close butt ends of a roof and dip-slopes of profound windows or doors. At last, the spotlights are a panel for refinishing of filing of the corbels, more often having punching for fanning maintenance. It is necessary to add that  elements are more expensive than ordinary panels, however they not much more increase siding cost, if at a facade simple geometry. If a facade of a difficult configuration they can raise cost of its refinishing on 50 – 70 %.

Installation

It is necessary to carry to advantages of a siding and possibility of its installation within almost all year. The most part of manufacturers recommends to sheathe a facade at temperature to-5?, though panels of separate manufacturers are authorised for establishing to-20? To S.Kak it was already told, installation of a vinyl siding is simple. Even the nonprofessional, carefully having studied an installation directions, it is capable to “cover” it a facade. We will stop only on the most general moments.

The strict geometry of a siding gives out unevenness of walls, therefore for their alignment use a wood furring. To straight walls it is possible to fix panels without a purlin. Mount a siding by means of aluminium either galvanised  or nails: application of more low-cost metal fixture turns around rusty smudges on vinyl laths. The distance between nails (саморезами) – no more than 40 see Already was mentioned that between a nail head (самореза) and a panel surface there should be a clearance space about 2 mm for indemnification of expansion-compression of a siding at temperature drops. For the same purposes it is necessary to fix nails  on the centre of the punched aperture in the top bead of the panel. It is impossible to stem nails directly into a siding track bed. Establishing a siding at плюсовой to temperature, leave a clearance space between  elements and butt ends of ordinary panels in 5 mm, at temperature more low 0? With – not less than 100 mm. If you hear stories about  panels, the reason for that, most likely, impossibility of their moving at expansion-compression, that is non-observance of technology of installation.

It is necessary to tell that the siding is easily cut, and the cut off small pieces, as a rule, too are used: them it is possible to sheathe a corbel or lots between windows.
In operation the vinyl siding is absolutely unpretentious. If you once a year have washed it by means of a garden hose, it is quite enough of it for preservation of beauty of a facade. Well and strongly polluted siding it is possible to clear, using a usual not abrasive cleaning agent.

As we see, the vinyl siding is aesthetic, reliable, and the main, inexpensive decision for facade refinishing. So when there is a question, than to sheathe a facade, the answer, is obvious.