Steel vs. Vinyl Siding For Your Home?

For those of us who want a maintenance free home there are a few options, steel and vinyl siding. These two options come from a number of reputable retailers and manufacturers but you’ll find that the steel option is the better way to go. Both will afford you the luxury of not having to paint you home every 5-10 years but the advantage of steel is that it can be completely seamless. ABC Seamless is a company that specializes in exterior home conversions with steel siding. Their siding is different from the others, because it’s SEAMLESS. Other sidings must be constantly overlapped every 12 feet to reach the length of your home, creating a pattern of unsightly splices. When evaluating a home for this type of make over you’ll need to take into consideration that the home will have 130 splices (cuts of material) to complete the job. That’s a lot of overlapping pieces that are easily visible for the street decreasing your homes curb appeal. ABC Seamless’ patented steel siding and manufacturing technique eliminates the UGLY splices. The most unique aspect of the process is that the manufacturing plant is portable! That’s right portable! Every piece of steel that goes onto a house is measured, formed and cut on site.

Vinyl siding will give you the same look but with splices, give good durability and requires little to no maintenance. But Vinyl won’t do well in a fire.

Now for your science lesson, vinyl melts at a temperature of roughly 300 degrees Fahrenheit, as opposed to steel, which is 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. With this information you would choose steel, naturally. We are used to seeing wood siding houses with the splices and cracks, if you could have a home without these cosmetic defects and obtain a more energy efficient home, wouldn’t that be the way to go? With ABC Seamless Steel Siding, the siding is cut at the home site; there are no ugly gaps for moisture and rot to congregate. Your home will stay warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, allowing you to save money on your energy bills and do your part in helping the environment.