Siding

It’s hard not to like fiber cement siding.  Durable, cost-effective, and long-lasting are all attributes anyone will want in a siding material, after all.  It should hardly come as a surprise then that, as reported in Remodeling magazine’s yearly Cost vs Value assessments, installing fiber cement siding has ranked #1 in terms of return on […]

With autumn well on its way, most homeowners are probably busy getting their homes ready for the chilly months ahead. And if you’re still not doing anything to winterize your home, you should definitely get started. After all, you wouldn’t want any problems to pop up at the height of the winter season.

At first glance, fiber cement siding would seem to be no more energy-efficient or cost-saving than other siding materials. For one, it costs almost as much as wooden siding and provides a similar amount of insulation as wood or vinyl.  How exactly, then, is it an energy-efficient, or even cost-efficient choice of siding material? The

Composite material is defined as anything made up of at least two materials with dramatically different chemical or physical properties that, when combined, result in a material with different (and usually better) characteristics. There are a number of composite materials around you and one of them is fiber cement, which is a combination of cellulose