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We have some of the best siding contractors in Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia Contractors can get you the best contractor to install siding on your home. All of Northern Virginia Contractor teams are companies that are licensed by the Virginia DPOR an insured. In today's world there are many choices of material for siding your home in Northern Virginia. The best choice. One of the best choices for re siding your Northern Virginia home is to use James Hardie plank siding. James Hardie siding is made of cement fiber and has the look and feel of wood siding. The second choice for your home is vinyl siding which is maintenance free and will last a life time.

Hardie Plank Lap Siding is the most popular brand of siding in Northern Virginia homes . James Hardie siding is made of cement fiber and has the look and feel of wood siding. Though James Hardie Plank siding is a little more expensive than vinyl siding, it can stand up to hail and does not have the chance of buckling like vinyl siding. Hardie Plank siding comes in many factory finished colors and a smooth or wood grain finish. James Hardie Plank is sold in lap, shingle, and colonial beaded siding panels. Hardie now offers a complete fascia, trim and soffit systems to go along with your siding project. How to install l James Hardie Plank siding is to remove the original siding from your home . Your old siding must be completely removed, which allows for the new James Hardie siding to be installed as if it were the original siding being installed for the first time. The next step installing James Hardie Plank, is to rap and tape your home with Hardie rap or Tyvek wrap. James Hardie rap and Tyvek is a siding membrane that is used to help stop air infiltration, and still allow siding breathability. No not let your siding contractor sell you insulation on any Hardie plank siding job because it will void the warranty and cause the siding product to warp. In the past when having your James Hardie plank installed on your home Azax boards had to be cut to form the corner pieces of the siding project, recently James Hardie came out with their Hardie corners that make for a much nicer siding installation. Your James Hardie siding will be installed by our contractors using the Installation Best Practices guidelines. Unlike vinyl siding which is installed by hanging the panels Hardie siding is nailed to the studs of your Northern Virginia Home.

Vinyl siding made its appearance in 1973. The manufacturers of vinyl siding did not choose to limit color choices. As Northern Virginia public tastes have changed, the older, more varied colors became less popular and manufacturers went with the choices dictated by their customers. Color choice is therefore driven by market demand. Panel design has also changed since the 70's. In the beginning, vinyl siding came in only two configurations: 8 inch; and double 4. Both are eight-inch panels. As competition developed, more styles came on the market. German and Dutch laps, Jamestown bead, triple four (a 12" panel), double five cedar shake and fish scale replicas expanded a home owner options in exterior decoration.

The bad news is that vinyl siding cannot be painted so the color can never be changed. Vinyl, unlike aluminum, returns to its original configuration despite being hit with projectiles or car doors. Vinyl is pure color all the way through. This tends to hide scratches and abrasions. Vinyl is impervious to acid rain and other airborne pollutants. It is as maintenance free as any product ever developed. Homes that were built 20 years ago still look as good as the day the vinyl siding was installed. Warrantees on vinyl siding against defects in workmanship and materials have gone from 40 years to Lifetime, with many manufacturers offering warrantees that are transferable to subsequent owners. Vinyl is subject to hail damage, but most manufacturers cover this damage in their warranties. Vinyl is also subject to fading under certain circumstances. Manufacturers guarantee their products to weather normally. This means that the product will fade no more than 3% from its original hue, and that all of the siding will do this simultaneously. In cases where some panels weather abnormally, meaning defects develop on single surfaces, manufacturers will replace the panels at no charge materials only, labor costs born by the customer.

Informed customers should request that all unused panels from an open box be left on site. This gives the homeowner the ability to match damaged or distorted panels and guard against a discontinued color in future years. Vinyl plasticizes at about 450 deg. Panels will distort when homeowners put BBQ grills too near the siding. Even when 3' feet away, lifting the top on a grill towards vinyl siding can cause big problems. Vinyl has the added advantage over metals in that single panels can be easily replaced in the middle of a wall. To do this with metal products means carefully stripping panels from the top down until the course of damaged panels is reached. An inexpensive zip-lock tool is all that is needed to remove and replace vinyl panels. These are available at most siding distributors.

Aluminum manufacturers began using vinyl coatings (PVC) in the improved the product. But aluminum is still subject to damage from hail, scratches, and it makes noise as it expands and contracts . Unlike vinyl which always wants to go back to its original configuration, aluminum has no memory characteristic making it suitable to bending (called 'braking' because it is shaped and molded on a piece of equipment known as a brake), and therefore is widely used to make permanent capping for wood trim including rake boards and fascia, windows and doors, and occasionally gable louvers.

All manufacturers of vinyl siding also carry aluminum coil stock in matching colors. Various backer board materials accompanied vinyl onto the market. These are made of expanded polystyrene foam and a few other types. Vinyl siding insulation was originally intended as wall leveling devices creating a flat surface to apply siding. This eliminated a phenomenon called most exterior wall surfaces are not uniformly flat. This makes attaching vinyl and metal sidings difficult. It is easy to tell a cheap application that skips the backer. The siding seems to be going wavy across the wall. As the first hit, backer boards became marketed as insulation. Replacing the siding on Your Northern Virginia and installing insulation will increase the home's energy efficiency. What is the best type of insulation to use under a vinyl siding panel on a siding project? The best answer is to use polystyrene foam type insulation with the highest R value, these are many brands marketed in Northern Virginia. Aloca Structure vinyl siding is a panel bonded with Dow Styrofoam, this is a nice choice."

As the nineties progressed new types of siding came into use by contractors in Northern Virginia. They claim to be insulation, but that claim is UN founded. These substrates are actually corrugated cardboard laminated with a Mylar film. Mylar is a very tough building material. Most people are unable to either kick a hole in it or tear it with their hands. Therefore it appears very strong. It also does not level walls well enough for any but the most experienced mechanics to follow with a uniformly level wall surface. In new construction, mechanics get paid for speed, not quality, and it shows in some of the most expensive homes in the Northern Virginia. Use of a good insulation may add around $800.00 to $2000.00 to the cost of a siding job, but it is money well spent. Insulation also levels out wall of your home and gives a much more professional end product to your siding job Homeowners that want to save money should insist on insulation for any vinyl siding project.

Monsanto introduced a fabric house wrap in the early 90's called Tyvek (spun bonded olefin). It is extremely strong and durable. Wrapping a home in Tyvek greatly reduces infiltrated heat loss in the winter, and air conditioning as well in the summer. Essentially, it acts as a prophylactic device. Tyvek is well worth its costs for what it does. What it does not do is provide a level wall surface. The combination of a foam backer and Tyvek is the very best option to insulate a home. Homeowners be cautioned though. This combination can button up a dwelling so well that interior air is unable to escape. Build up of humidity, mold, mildew, and stale air can result. Homes using the double of Tyvek and foam backers may need to make provision for extra ventilation, both intake and exhaust.

Northern Virginia Contractors install many name brands of vinyl siding such as CertainTeed siding including CedarBoards Shake and shingle insulated vinyl siding which comes in 6" double clapboard, double 4", 4 1/2" double Dutch lap and vinyl 12" board and batten siding panels. CertainTeed siding also comes in their Northwoods siding line single 10" random hand split shakes, and Northwoods single 7" straight 7" rough split vinyl. CertainTeed also makes a wide range of horizontal vinyl siding products such as Wolverine, Restoration smooth, Monogram 4", Carolina beaded, and CertainTeed Wolverine American Legend vinyl siding. Finally, CertainTeed makes some nice vertical siding panels such as beaded triple, Ironmax, Universal triple 4' vinyl products. Aside vinyl siding is another popular choice for vinyl siding manufactured for Northern Virginia Homes. Some of asides' best selling siding panels include Charter Oak insulated siding, Prodigy insulated vinyl siding, Williamsport Colonial beaded vinyl siding, Odyssey vinyl siding, and Alside Cypress Creek sold in 5' Dutch lap, 4", or 5" clapboard styles. Crane vinyl siding comes in CraneBoard, American Dream Edge vinyl siding, and Oracle Architectural that is made with a low gloss finish and a nice milled cedar grain finish. One other vinyl siding products used by our contractors is Mastic siding. Mastic siding comes in their Structure insulated siding panel, Quest vinyl, T-lock Barkwood, and Charleston Beaded vinyl siding boards.

Vinyl and aluminum sidings should not nailed to a wall. They are hung from siding nails. Vinyl can have expansion during hot and cold seasons. When they are improperly installed (meaning nailed tight), this factor is eliminated, resulting in the material expanding between the nails resulting in another form of oil canning. Neither vinyl nor aluminum can be reused once this happens. It's probably the single biggest mistake made by amateurs. Aluminum and vinyl panels all have the nail hem (top of panel), cut back two inches from each edge. Panels are then lapped at the seams to allow for expansion and contraction. It should be possible to rock an installed panel back and forth a few inches in each direction. The accessories used (J-channel, inside/outside corners, starter strip, and finish trim) also need to accommodate the expansion/contraction factor. Butting two J-channels will result in them distorting in hot weather. Corner posts should be nailed tight at the top and snug thereafter to control the direction of expansion and contraction. While just about anybody can swing a hammer, it takes skill and a major investment in tools and equipment to be able to install vinyl siding properly, meaning in a way that it will look the same in 30 years as it does the day the installers walk away.