Siding vs. painting the house

 

Over the long term, isn't siding a better investment?

Won't it eliminate the need to paint the house forever?

 




On my street there is a mix of wood siding and vinyl siding homes.  The wood
siding homes were fetching about $20 000 to $30 000 CDN more than the vinyl
siding in my town this fall when were were looking for a house to buy.  It's
tough to come up with fair number because the wood siding houses seemed to
be owned by people who took better care of their homes and added upgrades to
their homes inside the house too.  But the vinyl siding homes we saw lacked
modern upgrades indoors and I believe this was because the homeowners that
had vinyl were less likely to invest in their homes as a whole, or were not
handy

Yes wood takes time and work to maintain but when done right adds more value
in my town.  All homes in my immediate subdivision were built in 1967 and
1968 and most are of a same design side-split 52' x 26' bungalow.  All these
homes were built with wood siding on the second storey part.  Any homes on
my street with vinyl have had that vinyl dising added on in the 80's or 90's
or now.

We deliberately purchased a house that needs more elbow grease because when
done right, elbow grease gives greater returns.  Part of that elbow grease
will be maintaining wood siding but we believe it'll be a better investment.

 



BTW I compare wood siding with vinyl siding cause in my part of Canada,
vinyl is the choice of siding about 75% of the time

 

aesthete8 wrote:


Nope, bricks are even better again.


Bricks in spades.

 

In article
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So when a person asks "is A better than
B" you are too pignorant to answer their
question?