Menards Vinyl Siding

Buying cheap is a good way to lose money. Some of the local governments around here are discussing not allowing vinyl siding on any construction projects. Initially it is cheap but personally I don't like it because if it is not installed correctly it looks bad plus it doesn't last and it melts and sags if close to another structure that burns. 

You get what you pay for!  Ya buy cheap, ya get cheap, ya buy top, ya get top!  I have done/installed, many hundreds of square of siding, only buying the best, and with a good finished product! AND happy customer.

john(MI) wrote: I did my house in vinyl. took two days.  I figured out everything I needed and then went to the siding store and hauled it home myself.  Didn't have any defective material, except maybe some that were cut backwards or too short. I got a siding cutter, like a paper cutter, but the blade comes straight, pivots on both ends.  It sure made that job a whole lot easier. I can give you some other tips if you are not familiar with installing vinyl.

 

Menards is like every other business, all the products they carry are not created equal, you can buy just as much junk from your local lumber yard. Here in Michigan we are being bombarded by "steel siding manufacturers". They claim to offer the same warranty as the name brand suppliers at a significant savings, but in twenty years if their material starts going bad, they will be headed Chapter 13. The biggest issue with quality control is that they are rolling it on tinker toy skate wheel roller stands that won't hold tolerance for width, some of the stuff varies as much as 1/4" off in a three foot sheet, pretty handy on a 60' building when you come up 5" long or short at the far end. There might be a reason why the roller stands in an industrial rolling facility have 6" axles and 20" diameter rolls, but people still flock to these guys to save a buck. If you press them on warranty information, they will tell you the warranty actually goes back to the manufacturer, which is usually someone in the steel siding business and sells the product if flat roll form , the warranty also states that there is no warranty if the product defect is because of improper forming technique. Let the finger pointing begin if there is a problem.

so what are the names of the good vinyl siding?

In my opinion, there is NOTHING wrong with a quality vinyl siding product on a home. I am well of the lack of job application values that give good products a bad name, it really doesn't take much longer to install vinyl correctly vrs. what most applicators put out  .

Shameless this vinyl siding came in boxes with no name on them. Sorry I can't tell you what it was.