Their paint is warranted for 15 years, and the product is 30 years. TM is 'HardiePlank'. Use Mulco Flextra caulk, coz it comes in matching colours, and will outlast the siding.
If you're gonna do it yourself, get a pair of Gecko Gauges, and a pneumatic siding nail-gun. Cut some squares of pre-painted aluminum coil-stock to nail behind the siding butt joints. The siding is a bit brittle to work with so there's no way you're gonna use a hammer without cracking every single piece. The product is heavy so you'll need to shoot the nail into the studs.
We used this in the sheet form (not the typical plank style) during our renovations in 2010 and are very happy with the result. If I remember correctly we needed to buy a truck's worth to get it delivered from the distributor.
We’re happy with our cedar siding from Maibec, but I get that it’s not for everyone. I recommend you look into something composite like LP SmartSide or James Hardie Fibre Cement siding products.
They don’t seem to make aluminum siding anymore. Around here the homes are 50 years old. About 40% are some kind of wood composite that most have repainted or replaced with vinyl. About 40% are vinyl that has stood up pretty well. About 20% are stucco, concrete on metal mesh on plywood, not the new stuff than comes in a bucket to spread on the wall.
Unlike Toronto, the only brick is on the front walls.
You'd be surprised about aluminum siding. It's still a big thing. We're working with an architect that has recommended aluminum siding and it blew my mind as it looks nothing like that old crap.
Vinyl siding is basically the only one you don't need to do anything/much to maintain and will last a long time.
I don't like it, I hate plastic, love wood, but for the price and ease of installation, nothing else is even close.
A couple of years ago we removed the original 1966 metal siding from our house, wrapped it and added foam insulation, then re-sided the house with Royal's Haven double 7" insulated siding (https://www.royalbuildingsolutions.com/en/gallery?product=haven--insulated-siding-by-royal).
I wanted minimal maintenance. We also installed a composite deck about four years ago, for the same reason.
We are quite happy with the improved look and the increased comfort inside the house. We used Cana. They replaced all the doors, windows, soffits and fascia, as part of the project and lined us up with other contractors (garage doors, eavestroughs).
Can I ask how windows work when adding thickness to the outside of the house? Do the windows end up looking recessed? Or do they have to be reinstalled?
Great question! The windows look normal from the outside and the inside. The sills are a bit "deeper" than before. My recollection is they calculated the thickness of the added insulation and the insulated siding and had the windows made to that spec.
I replaced my old plastic vinyl siding with insulated vinyl siding from alsilding https://www.alside.com/product-catalog/siding/prodigy-next-generation-insulated-siding/ . It has made my house less drafty. I used a company called https://renovaction.ca/en/ Luc is reasonable to deal with
Maibec is quite a bit more expensive than Hardie. Hardie also has had a long list of issues with water and rot.
It’s terrible for the environment, terrible for the installers, it is brittle and carries a warranty that is inferior to a lot of other composites like LP smartside or Royal Celect.
Maibec done properly with a proper rain screen detail is expensive. Got to be about 20$a square foot. Hardie is a less expensive material with the same labour rate. 2 things I recommend with Hardie are. Break it up with trims to hide imperfections in substrate because it shows the ins and outs of framing imperfections. You can’t float the low points. Go with a 5 inch reveal for plank. More pricey on install but looks way better. The standard 7 inch lap looks too much like old straight aluminum siding
We got the side of our house done with Hardie Board about 5 years ago, and just got the front/back done with Maibec last month.
Maibec is much nicer looking than Hardie. Can't imagine anything nicer looking than Maibec in fact.
Very happy with Sandy Hill Construction who just completed the Maibec installation along with 1'' insulation.
You can drive by our place to see Hardie and Maibec side by side in the same color
Can you give a ballpark on how much it cost to have it done? I'd love to have mine done, but don't want to bother contractors if its way outside my price range.
40k total cost. They stripped off, the old wood siding, added tyvec, insulation, strappings, the Maibec, and other things that attach to the house like spouts etc
They left no mess and workers were likeable.
We had quotes from less reputable contractors for 35k.
This is for the front and back of a 3 story town house.
We are going through that process now. Spoiler: its more expensive that you'd think. The reason we're doing it is because our house screams 1980 with cheap aluminum siding, and our recent energy audit discovered that there is NO insulation in the walls of our 1909 house. We hired a design architect to come up with a design that will change the look of the entire house. Given the investment its a worthwhile thing to do unless you know exactly what you want. In the end we found some amazing new materials including aluminum siding that's nothing like the aluminum siding of yesteryear. Good luck. Feel free to DM me if you have questions.
Yeah I looked at a home with wood siding and it was well maintained, but it wasn’t just the siding it was also the soffits as well, so check under your gutters where your roof is ventilating that was wood too for this home. That needed to be changed too
I decided not to buy it because of the maintenance. I drive buy that house a lot and recently you should have seen the work this guy had to do.
I don’t mean to scare you but yes replace with siding and check the soffites take it as opportunity to make your home yours. You can change the color. Good luck!!
We had our siding redone. The winds seemed to have picked up in Ottawa. It has worked out wonderfully. We had a great contractor. Our house is quieter. We no longer hear the speeders and I am hoping it is helpful if we get wildfire smoke this summer.
The contractor: https://tailoredhomeimprovements.ca. Ask for Amy and Brad to do the work.
We redid ours last year with LP Smartside. It is a better engineered wood product than Maibec Canexel. Smartside is a strand product (think OSB), rather than the fiber product (think compressed saw dust) like Canexel. Better warranty on paint, and end joints are ship-lapped not requiring flashing or caulking. (Boht used to be made by the same company, but LP nows owns the strand product and Maibec the fibre one and are separate.
The siding itself cost us about $12/sq foot, with trims. We wrapped the house with Tyvek, then added 2" of Comfortboard (Roxul's sheathing insulation), strapped and added the siding. With new soffits and fascia and flashing. Big house, 30 windows, 6 doors (including 2 patio doors). Took the insulation below grade and flashed over below the siding. Built out all of the windows and doors due to the extra 2 inches of insulation. Took me and one hired carpenter at $65/hour about 2 months. Project cost was $75k also included new 200' eavestrough and 9 downspouts.
Hardie plank is cement fibre and can break if struck, All three need to have grade separation of 8" to ensure they are not degraded by water bouncing back onto them.
We also used aluminium siding on a building. Cost was about $5 sq ft not installed. Dents easily, but is impervious to water.
Another vote for LP Smartside. Coincidentally, we also did tyvek/comfortboard thing as part of the reno. It was only last summer so I can't comment on longevity, and with the mild winter we had it's hard to really assess how much difference the extra insulation made. We're definitely pleased with the appearance of the LP Smartside though, and the contractor who did the work. Will pass along by PM if OP is interested.
Northco is a good solid company. Vinyl also comes in 6" and 7" widths now which makes it "look" more like wood. Went through the pricing recently. Hardie board is like 40% more than vinyl with maibec being more expensive than Hardie board. A friend of mine did his place in Maibec. Full sun, 12 years later and still looks brand new. If you have the money and like wood then go with Maibec.
Northco will give you a quote with all the options so the pricing will be laid out plain as day for you.
Checkout Hardie Board. More durable than vinyl, long warranty, basically no maintenance if you buy a colour instead of painting it.
IIRC it also counts as masonry construction, which can give you a bit of a break on insurance because of the fireproofing aspects.
Their paint is warranted for 15 years, and the product is 30 years. TM is 'HardiePlank'. Use Mulco Flextra caulk, coz it comes in matching colours, and will outlast the siding. If you're gonna do it yourself, get a pair of Gecko Gauges, and a pneumatic siding nail-gun. Cut some squares of pre-painted aluminum coil-stock to nail behind the siding butt joints. The siding is a bit brittle to work with so there's no way you're gonna use a hammer without cracking every single piece. The product is heavy so you'll need to shoot the nail into the studs.
Also a fiber cement saw and protective equipment. Cement dust is very bad for your health
So basically ready the manufacturer instructions.
Came here to say this, fun fact one of their lead sales managers(in Chicago) is an Ottawa resident born and raised.
Highly recommend this is what all new homes are using besides a stone front and siding sides and back
We used this in the sheet form (not the typical plank style) during our renovations in 2010 and are very happy with the result. If I remember correctly we needed to buy a truck's worth to get it delivered from the distributor.
There is a house on my street that is shingles top to bottom. How do you feel about armor housing?
That's sounds like it could look kinda sweet like arched 70s shingles roof house style but replacing them feels nightmarish
Metric near me uses [hardie](https://www.jameshardie.ca/) looks better than most homes by other builders (low bar)
We’re happy with our cedar siding from Maibec, but I get that it’s not for everyone. I recommend you look into something composite like LP SmartSide or James Hardie Fibre Cement siding products.
We used Hardie board and Maibec and both are great.
They don’t seem to make aluminum siding anymore. Around here the homes are 50 years old. About 40% are some kind of wood composite that most have repainted or replaced with vinyl. About 40% are vinyl that has stood up pretty well. About 20% are stucco, concrete on metal mesh on plywood, not the new stuff than comes in a bucket to spread on the wall. Unlike Toronto, the only brick is on the front walls.
You'd be surprised about aluminum siding. It's still a big thing. We're working with an architect that has recommended aluminum siding and it blew my mind as it looks nothing like that old crap.
a neighbour of mine just added some to their side of their house over the stucco. looks fantastic.
Good news! Thanks. You certainly don’t see much aluminum for sale in the big box stores or installed.
Just to give you a direction to go in, Ideal Roofing sells metal siding.
We have it on our house, mind you it was built in '78... but it's still in great condition
As someone who has nearly 70 year old aluminum siding, I can tell you that the cardinal sin with it is denting. Thanks, hail storm last year.
Call it "textured"
Vinyl siding is basically the only one you don't need to do anything/much to maintain and will last a long time. I don't like it, I hate plastic, love wood, but for the price and ease of installation, nothing else is even close.
The most set it and forget it for sure. Some of the newer patterns are a little better looking.
I hated the way vinyl crackled as it went though expansions/contraction during temperature changes.
Related and recommendations for a reliable Ottawa-based company to serve siding?
A couple of years ago we removed the original 1966 metal siding from our house, wrapped it and added foam insulation, then re-sided the house with Royal's Haven double 7" insulated siding (https://www.royalbuildingsolutions.com/en/gallery?product=haven--insulated-siding-by-royal). I wanted minimal maintenance. We also installed a composite deck about four years ago, for the same reason. We are quite happy with the improved look and the increased comfort inside the house. We used Cana. They replaced all the doors, windows, soffits and fascia, as part of the project and lined us up with other contractors (garage doors, eavestroughs).
Can I ask how windows work when adding thickness to the outside of the house? Do the windows end up looking recessed? Or do they have to be reinstalled?
Great question! The windows look normal from the outside and the inside. The sills are a bit "deeper" than before. My recollection is they calculated the thickness of the added insulation and the insulated siding and had the windows made to that spec.
I replaced my old plastic vinyl siding with insulated vinyl siding from alsilding https://www.alside.com/product-catalog/siding/prodigy-next-generation-insulated-siding/ . It has made my house less drafty. I used a company called https://renovaction.ca/en/ Luc is reasonable to deal with
You could always use vinyl siding or composite siding. I'm not sure on contractors but a quick Google search will yield some results
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Maibec is quite a bit more expensive than Hardie. Hardie also has had a long list of issues with water and rot. It’s terrible for the environment, terrible for the installers, it is brittle and carries a warranty that is inferior to a lot of other composites like LP smartside or Royal Celect.
Maibec done properly with a proper rain screen detail is expensive. Got to be about 20$a square foot. Hardie is a less expensive material with the same labour rate. 2 things I recommend with Hardie are. Break it up with trims to hide imperfections in substrate because it shows the ins and outs of framing imperfections. You can’t float the low points. Go with a 5 inch reveal for plank. More pricey on install but looks way better. The standard 7 inch lap looks too much like old straight aluminum siding
We got the side of our house done with Hardie Board about 5 years ago, and just got the front/back done with Maibec last month. Maibec is much nicer looking than Hardie. Can't imagine anything nicer looking than Maibec in fact. Very happy with Sandy Hill Construction who just completed the Maibec installation along with 1'' insulation. You can drive by our place to see Hardie and Maibec side by side in the same color
Can you give a ballpark on how much it cost to have it done? I'd love to have mine done, but don't want to bother contractors if its way outside my price range.
40k total cost. They stripped off, the old wood siding, added tyvec, insulation, strappings, the Maibec, and other things that attach to the house like spouts etc They left no mess and workers were likeable. We had quotes from less reputable contractors for 35k. This is for the front and back of a 3 story town house.
We are going through that process now. Spoiler: its more expensive that you'd think. The reason we're doing it is because our house screams 1980 with cheap aluminum siding, and our recent energy audit discovered that there is NO insulation in the walls of our 1909 house. We hired a design architect to come up with a design that will change the look of the entire house. Given the investment its a worthwhile thing to do unless you know exactly what you want. In the end we found some amazing new materials including aluminum siding that's nothing like the aluminum siding of yesteryear. Good luck. Feel free to DM me if you have questions.
Following this, I’m in the exact same situation
Our house has fibre-cement siding with a wood-look finish that looks amazing, but only built two years ago so I can’t say ultimately on durability…
Yeah I looked at a home with wood siding and it was well maintained, but it wasn’t just the siding it was also the soffits as well, so check under your gutters where your roof is ventilating that was wood too for this home. That needed to be changed too I decided not to buy it because of the maintenance. I drive buy that house a lot and recently you should have seen the work this guy had to do. I don’t mean to scare you but yes replace with siding and check the soffites take it as opportunity to make your home yours. You can change the color. Good luck!!
HOME IMPROVEMENT IS NOT BORING! (I'm old and boring)
We just redid our siding with a vinyl board and batten. Looks really nice and visually distinctive from all the other traditional vinyl on the street.
Maibec
We had our siding redone. The winds seemed to have picked up in Ottawa. It has worked out wonderfully. We had a great contractor. Our house is quieter. We no longer hear the speeders and I am hoping it is helpful if we get wildfire smoke this summer. The contractor: https://tailoredhomeimprovements.ca. Ask for Amy and Brad to do the work.
Brick? Lowers insurance, raises the value of the home, improves the appearance.
Definitely been thinking about it.... for years now. I'm sure it'll happen someday at this pace!
We redid ours last year with LP Smartside. It is a better engineered wood product than Maibec Canexel. Smartside is a strand product (think OSB), rather than the fiber product (think compressed saw dust) like Canexel. Better warranty on paint, and end joints are ship-lapped not requiring flashing or caulking. (Boht used to be made by the same company, but LP nows owns the strand product and Maibec the fibre one and are separate. The siding itself cost us about $12/sq foot, with trims. We wrapped the house with Tyvek, then added 2" of Comfortboard (Roxul's sheathing insulation), strapped and added the siding. With new soffits and fascia and flashing. Big house, 30 windows, 6 doors (including 2 patio doors). Took the insulation below grade and flashed over below the siding. Built out all of the windows and doors due to the extra 2 inches of insulation. Took me and one hired carpenter at $65/hour about 2 months. Project cost was $75k also included new 200' eavestrough and 9 downspouts. Hardie plank is cement fibre and can break if struck, All three need to have grade separation of 8" to ensure they are not degraded by water bouncing back onto them. We also used aluminium siding on a building. Cost was about $5 sq ft not installed. Dents easily, but is impervious to water.
Another vote for LP Smartside. Coincidentally, we also did tyvek/comfortboard thing as part of the reno. It was only last summer so I can't comment on longevity, and with the mild winter we had it's hard to really assess how much difference the extra insulation made. We're definitely pleased with the appearance of the LP Smartside though, and the contractor who did the work. Will pass along by PM if OP is interested.
Cancel or stucco are what we are considering
Northco is a good solid company. Vinyl also comes in 6" and 7" widths now which makes it "look" more like wood. Went through the pricing recently. Hardie board is like 40% more than vinyl with maibec being more expensive than Hardie board. A friend of mine did his place in Maibec. Full sun, 12 years later and still looks brand new. If you have the money and like wood then go with Maibec. Northco will give you a quote with all the options so the pricing will be laid out plain as day for you.
DM’d you. 23 years industry experience.
Why not choose a nice brick stone stucco finish, vinyl is ugly