I am the one that suggested Hardiplank from the beginning. We had done some research in the summer and found it to be referenced as one of the leading green products for siding. It is a fibre cement board product as compared with using aluminum to side your house. Hardiplank is also known for its durability and sound insulation. I don’t know if I am guilty of sounding so confident in it that no other suggestions for a product were made but it wasn’t until last Wednesday that an alternative siding was mentioned during a project meeting.
The other product is Canexel Wood Fibre Siding. It is promoted as offering the benefits of wood. It is made from compressed wood fibres (which means from an environmental standpoint that full length pieces of wood are not used to create the product). This Canadian company is based out of Vancouver and the website is: www.canwel.com/canexel.htm
We did speak with an architect friend of ours who referred to Canexcel as a good and reasonable product with a 25 year warranty. He suggested that if we used it we should pick a narrow profile with a cove detail to be in keeping with a traditional look.
To keep our project moving forward, we included an allowance that would work for the Hardiplank product in our contract. If you translate the last sentence it means that the Hardiplank product is more expensive so we kept the line item big enough to still be able to use the product originally planned for. Using the Canexcel product might result in some savings for us so we are looking into it further. The next step is to find a place to actually see and feel the product (as compared with a website). This would also mean revisiting the colour decision as a blue house would depend on the blue siding options offered by Canexcel.
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Any advice or research that someone has on the issue of siding would be very helpful! Hint, hint.
Here is a web address that we were forwarded:
http://www.capecod.ca/products/profiles/boardbatten.html
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