Better Homes and Gardens lists the costs of each type of siding. Unfortunately, some they choose to list the uninstalled cost, and others they list the installed cost. Anyway, you can guess that in most cases installed cost is at least double the material cost, and more for cheap materials like vinyl.
Seen in this kind of presentation, real brick is not out of line. But it doesn't count costs like extra foundation strength, and wasted interior space. Brick and stone veneer are about as expensive as real brick (assuming installation cost about the same as material cost).
Stucco is (or at least can be) surprisingly expensive. Even the material cost can exceed that of installed brick. Both the house I grew up and and the only house I bought in California were stucco. I thought nothing of it at the time, but less of brick and much less of wood, especially horizontal strips of wood which made me think of poor hillbillies who couldn't afford better. Now that's back in style, big time, with fiber cement boards. But I like fiber cement panels better somehow, perhaps partly from childhood prejudice, and that is how my house exterior is finished (vertical simulated boards in panels, originally "engineered wood" but now fiber cement in front). Somehow that looks more modern to me.
I lust after the faux stone veneer in the front of my workshop, to make view from bedroom window nicer. But I'm worried that pieces adhered to the side with special bonding mortar (and not nailed or bolted on) can fall off and hurt someone, especially perhaps under the stress of opening the front doors. I suppose the probability of that happening is very small, but the fact that it could happen makes me think I'll just stick with Hardipanel. Besides appearance, the only advantage of the faux stone pieces is that they never require painting. But you can't get hurt by peeling paint.
The problem with faux brick and stone in fiber cement panels is that eventually the embossed coating wears out. 25 year warranty is typical. And then you have terrible choices. You can either replace the siding entirely, or paint over by sandblasting or chemical etching first. At least that is my guess. You cant just scrape off the loose paint and repaint, as you could with painted panels.
Bottom line is that painted fiber cement seems like one of the best choices of our time. Yes it is fake wood, but superior to most wood in most respects as a siding material. So you might consider real wood to be the overpriced imitation.
Seen in this kind of presentation, real brick is not out of line. But it doesn't count costs like extra foundation strength, and wasted interior space. Brick and stone veneer are about as expensive as real brick (assuming installation cost about the same as material cost).
Stucco is (or at least can be) surprisingly expensive. Even the material cost can exceed that of installed brick. Both the house I grew up and and the only house I bought in California were stucco. I thought nothing of it at the time, but less of brick and much less of wood, especially horizontal strips of wood which made me think of poor hillbillies who couldn't afford better. Now that's back in style, big time, with fiber cement boards. But I like fiber cement panels better somehow, perhaps partly from childhood prejudice, and that is how my house exterior is finished (vertical simulated boards in panels, originally "engineered wood" but now fiber cement in front). Somehow that looks more modern to me.
I lust after the faux stone veneer in the front of my workshop, to make view from bedroom window nicer. But I'm worried that pieces adhered to the side with special bonding mortar (and not nailed or bolted on) can fall off and hurt someone, especially perhaps under the stress of opening the front doors. I suppose the probability of that happening is very small, but the fact that it could happen makes me think I'll just stick with Hardipanel. Besides appearance, the only advantage of the faux stone pieces is that they never require painting. But you can't get hurt by peeling paint.
The problem with faux brick and stone in fiber cement panels is that eventually the embossed coating wears out. 25 year warranty is typical. And then you have terrible choices. You can either replace the siding entirely, or paint over by sandblasting or chemical etching first. At least that is my guess. You cant just scrape off the loose paint and repaint, as you could with painted panels.
Bottom line is that painted fiber cement seems like one of the best choices of our time. Yes it is fake wood, but superior to most wood in most respects as a siding material. So you might consider real wood to be the overpriced imitation.
feel free to read this one, some houston siding companies are demand of such a huge amount to put on their service but we should think what quality is that company have.
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