Re: [GBlist] siding

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Alan Courtright:

>One of the things I want in a home is absolutely minimum maintenance.
>OTOH, vinyl and aluminum siding make me cringe, and brick and other such
>faces are prohibitively expensive.  So what's left?  If Hardieboard didn't
>have to be painted, I'd be all for it.  Anyone know of something along
>those lines that does NOT have to be so treated?

     If you do it yourself, stucco is one of the least expensive 
sidings going.  By the time I finish my small house (estimated 
exterior foot print of 800 feet, one story plus two gable ends) I 
will have spent less than $750 on stucco materials.  It's just taking 
a long time.  If you want minimum maintenance and have decent 
overhangs, you should look very closely at stucco.  Especially lime 
stucco, which over time can patch its own hairline cracks.

-Speireag.
-- 
Speireag Alden, aka Joshua Macdonald Alden

If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but 
do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly 
useless parts?  To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution 
of intelligent tinkering.   -- Aldo Leopold, _A Sand County Almanac_ 

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