Облицовка дома металлическим сайдингом: инструкция по обшивке и отделке фасада дома своими руками + фото

Металлический сайдинг: обзор, описание, как выбрать

Размеры

Как правило, металлический сайдинг выпускается в виде длинных панелей, имеющих различные габариты. Длина таких элементов может составлять 3, 4, 5 м. Подходящий параметр следует выбирать в соответствии с размером дома, который вы планируете отделать. Кроме того, подобный отделочный материал должен соответствовать геометрии постройки. Специалисты рекомендуют приобретать панели с запасом, чтобы избежать большого количества некрасивых стыков.

Ширина стального сайдинга тоже бывает различной. Стандартными являются показатели в 120, 300, 550 мм.

В настоящее время многие производители предлагают услугу по изготовлению металлического сайдинга по индивидуальным заказам. Благодаря этому вы сможете приобрести материал, который идеально подойдет именно для вашего дома. Тогда облицовку не придется подгонять под нужные параметры. Кроме того, многие компании не только изготавливают сайдинг по размерам заказчика, но и производят все замеры оснований, чтобы высчитать необходимый объем материалов на м2.

Особенности покрытия

Для защиты металла, а также создания неповторимого внешнего вида на панели наносят специальное покрытие. Есть несколько вариантов, потому перед тем как отправиться за покупкой ознакомьтесь с несколькими и еще дома определитесь с тем, который более всего нравиться.

Пурал (Pural)

Основным компонентом этого покрытия является полиуретан. Его наносят достаточно толстым слоем – около 50 мкм. В других странах этот защитный слой называют кварцитом, гранитом или призмой. Характеристики такого слоя следующие:

1. Матовая и гладкая поверхность.
2. Большая износостойкость.
3. Выдерживает механические нагрузки.
4. Срок службы до 25 лет
5. Относится к средней ценовой категории.
6. Плохо переносит изгиб.

ПВДФ (PVDF)

Этот защитный слой способен выдержать даже самые сложные погодные условия. Механические повреждения ему тоже не страшны. Производители металлосайдинга с покрытием ПВДФ указывают срок службы до 50 лет. К тому же рисунок сохраняет реалистичность и четкость на протяжении всего периода эксплуатации.

Принтек (Printech)

Такое покрытие легко имитирует кирпич, натуральный камень и даже древесину. При чем рисунок получается настолько реалистичным, что издалека отличить, где настоящий материал, а где имитация достаточно сложно. Наносится немного тоньше, чем пурал (35 мкм), но при этом и стоит дешевле.

Полиэстер

Такой вариант считается самым дешевым, но в то же время и самым низкокачественным. Материал может выдержать перепады температуры окружающей среды, но вот механическое воздействие будет губительным. Ко всему цвет сохраняется плохо, а это значит, что через несколько сезонов краска потеряет яркость.

Вес и габариты

Эти характеристики имеют существенное значение для подготовки установочной конструкции обрешетки. Металлические листы имеют разные размеры. Отечественный рынок, как правило, предлагает полосы от 0,5 до 6 метров

90000 How to Fasten a Downspout to Vinyl Siding | Home Guides 90001 90002 Aluminum downspouts direct water collected by gutters away from the house and towards the ground. Downspouts can be attached to houses with rivets or metal screws. In the case of installing a downspout onto vinyl siding, a metal screw is used to secure it to the house. Using screws allows you to periodically take apart the downspout to clean it, which will prevent the gutters from backing up and sending water into your home.90003 90002 Inspect your gutters and look for an area where a downspout would not be obstructed on its way from the gutter to the ground, near the roof corners or at the center of the gutter if it is a continuous run that is 20 feet or longer . The gutters also need to slope 1/2 inch per every 10 feet towards the location of a downspout. 90003 90002 Hold the downspout connector up against the bottom of the gutter and center it. Trace around the downspout connector with a pencil to make a cutting guide.90003 90002 Put on safety glasses. Drill a hole at each corner of the rectangular cutting guide to make access holes for the tin snips. Cut the traced area out of the bottom of the gutter with tin snips. 90003 90002 Insert the smaller end of the gutter downspout connector into the hole from the top opening of the gutter. Drive in four 1/4-inch zip screws, one per side of the downspout connector. Center the screw on the side and drive it up through the gutter into the larger end of the connector.90003 90002 Run a bead of aluminum sealant caulk around the edge of the connector where it sits in on the top side of the gutter opening. 90003 90002 Slip the end of a downspout elbow onto the bottom of the gutter downspout connector. Hold the elbow so that its end is facing the side of the house. Attach the elbow to the bottom of the downspout connector with a 3/8-inch zip screw centered on the side of the elbow that faces away from the house. 90003 90002 Hold the second elbow up to the side of the house with one opening facing towards the free end of the first elbow.Measure the distance, in a straight diagonal line, between the two elbow ends. Add three inches to the measurement and cut a piece of downspout to this length with a hack saw. 90003 90002 Crimp the corners of the top end of the downspout piece with needle-nose pliers by grasping each corner with the pliers and twisting the metal in towards the downspout center. 90003 90002 Insert the crimped end of the downspout piece into the elbow attached to the downspout connector. Slide the end of the second elbow into the free end of the downspout piece.90003 90002 Measure from the end of the second elbow down to six inches above the ground. Cut a piece of downspout to this length. Insert the downspout piece into the elbow. Drive a 3/8-inch zip screw into the downspout piece and the elbow. 90003 90002 Measure 18 inches up from the ground on the downspout. This is where the mounting strap will be attached to the vinyl siding of the house. 90003 90002 Bend the metal mounting strap around the downspout so that the ends sit flat against the vinyl siding.Drive a 1 + 1/2-inch zip screw into each side of the strap and through the vinyl siding with an electric screwdriver. 90003 90002 Crimp the corners of the top of the third elbow with the needle-nose pliers. Insert the elbow into the bottom of the downspout. 90003 90002 Crimp the corner ends of the downspout extension (if needed). A downspout extender will be needed to route the rain water away from your house if the downspout is near a driveway or sidewalk. Insert the crimped end into the elbow.Prop the extension up onto the short end of a splash block. 90003.90000 Find your Feng Shui facing direction of your home or office 90001 90002 90003 90004 90005 Are you prepared for 2020? 90004 90005 Along with an accurate compass direction, determining your sitting and facing direction is critical to performing a precise Feng Shui consultation. We would estimate that 70% of people get this wrong. 90004 90002 This area causes so much confusion, we have been to so many consultations and told beforehand that a property faces a certain direction and when we get there the direction of the front door is totally different to the facing direction.90004 90002 To give the answer is actually very hard, as there are so many different views on how to find the front direction of your home or office, in fact, even a qualified Feng Shui consultant can spend some time analysing a property before she / he makes a decision on where the front is. 90004 90002 90014 Forget your front door direction 90015 90004 90002 Most people assume the front is the direction your front door faces, try and imagine you are in my home (while you are there can you do some ironing and dusting please) as you stand in the centre of my home you will be in my dining room with the living room and hallway and kitchen either side, I have five large windows and one small facing north, there is a road outside and a public footpath also my front garden, but I do not have a front door there.On the east wall, I have a main door with porch and one window, which looks onto the next-door neighbour’s house. 90004 90002 Hopefully, you will get the idea by now, because my front door faces east it does not mean this is the front of my home, my facing direction is north, this is where the most “Yang” (activity) energy is, the road, footpath, people and cars going by, the widest part of the building, if you were the architect designing my home from scratch you would definitely put my front door there.This part is very very important, as when you calculate any school of Feng Shui you need to know which way your property faces. If you take my house again (make sure you lift the ornaments and dust underneath) although I may have a driveway leading to the garage and front main door, for example, assume at the back I now have the main road, pedestrian footpath, lots of people and activity and even a lovely stream, you guessed it, this would now be my front direction as this is where all my Yang energy is, this is not uncommon when you think about it, drive down any main road you will see many homes with back gardens facing the road and yet they will always think this is the rear in Feng Shui terms.This can be hard to judge even for the most seasoned Master especially if you are on the top floor of a block of flats or a large office building. 90004 90005 90014 So what is facing and sitting directions? 90015 90004 90002 The facing direction is the front that faces the “yang” (active) energy, the sitting direction is actually more important this is the area that has the most “yin” (quiet) energy. The sitting direction determines your properties Trigram. So if your property faces 350 degrees north, the sitting direction is 170 degrees south, so the Trigram for this property is “Li”.90004 90002 Now we know that this is a “Li” property we would know that the best colour to paint this property on the outside would be fire colours, red, orange, purple etc. 90004 90005 90014 How do I know which is Yin (sitting) and which is Yang (facing)? 90015 90004 90002 90014 Yang (facing): 90015 This is the most active energy, the energy that is lively: 90004 90002 v A busy road. 90004 90002 v A public footpath. 90004 90002 v A flowing river. 90004 90002 v The side of a property that has the most windows.90004 90002 v Your street sign. 90004 90002 v The south (bright) is Yang and the north (dark) is Yin. 90004 90002 v A children’s playground or primary school. 90004 90002 v The main entrance is usually (not always) the facing direction. 90004 90002 v A nice view. 90004 90002 v The architect’s intention, try and guess how he felt the sitting direction would be. 90004 90002 v A living or family room is normally on the facing side. 90004 90002 Just because your home may face a children’s 90060 playground this does not automatically mean this is your facing 90060 direction, you need to consider all the factors given on this page.90014 90060 90015 90004 90002 90014 Yin (sitting direction) 90015: This is where 90060 the least energy resides: 90004 90002 v A back yard usually is your sitting direction or an alleyway. 90004 90002 v Tall dark trees at the back of your grounds. 90004 90002 v Smaller darker rooms. 90004 90002 v The north (dark) is Yin energy. 90004 90002 v The quiet side of the property. 90004 90002 v The kitchen and bathroom (not always) is normally at the back. 90004 90002 v Bedrooms are normally on the sitting side.90004 90002 v Utility or washrooms are normally in the sitting direction. 90004 90002 v The sitting direction could look onto a large building or a row of houses. 90004 90002 v The side of the property that is not that attractive to the eye, i.e. down-pipes from the bathroom, gutter pipes placed sideways across the main-wall. 90004 90002 You will need to take a view on all of the above; a good test to find your facing direction is if you had to take a photo of your home or office which angle would you take it from? Would you take the picture of the front door that has nothing on that wall except the main entrance or would you take the picture of the side that has the most windows and is more pleasing to the eye? 90004 90005 *** Tip *** 90060 Do you remember the details you had from the estate agents when you bought your home, which angle did they take the photo from? I can remember when we bought our last home, the number of homes we viewed from the pictures on the property details showing the rear of the home because this was the most attractive or bright side, in fact, I was amazed at how the estate agents actually managed to capture the facing direction even though most people would have thought this would have been the sitting direction.90004 90005 90014 Examples of sitting and facing directions. 90015 90004 90002 90014 Example 1: 90015 This property has a main door that faces east; this door looks onto their neighbour’s wall and has no other windows on this wall. 90004 90002 90105 90004 90002 Facing direction is different to front door direction. 90004 90002 90014 The front looking out the living room window: 90060 90015 90004 90002 vA busy road. 90004 90002 vFaces north 90004 90002 vA playing field beyond the road.90004 90002 vA street sign outside the lounge window. 90004 90002 vThe most windows on a wall 90004 90002 90014 The rear looking out the kitchen / dining room: 90060 90015 90004 90002 vA patio / backyard. 90004 90002 vTrees at the end of the garden. 90004 90002 vLooks towards the south. 90004 90002 vA public footpath. 90004 90002 vThe quieter side. 90004 90002 This is a simple diagnosis of facing and sitting direction. Even though the main door faces east, this is not its facing direction, this property clearly faces North and sits in the south, even though it does not have a door on the north wall.You probably noticed I threw in a few little teasers, the front faces north which is “Yin” (normally sitting) energy, however, if you look at all the other “Yang” energy this does not dictate its facing direction. The rear faces south which is a Yang energy and it also looks onto a public footpath, however, the other factors say that this it’s sitting direction. 90004 90002 90014 Example 2: 90015 90004 90002 90146 90004 90002 This house is clear cut, the front door is on the front main wall along with lots of windows, there is a pathway leading to it.Trees are at the back and this clearly the way the architect had designed it. 90004 90002 Now imagine the main door in the middle was on a side wall, which way would it face then? It would still face the same direction, even if the door was at the back of the house. Having the main door on the front wall makes it easier to make a judgment on facing direction, however, modern homes are built nowadays with the main door built in any location. 90004 90002 90014 Example 3 90015 90004 90002 90157 90004 90002 Hopefully, you have the idea by now.The above house main door faces west, however, the front of the house is clearly the north wall where the four windows are. If you had to take one photo of this house and only show one wall you would take it on the north wall. So this house faces north and sits in the south. 90004 90002 Regardless of what books you have read telling you to use your main door as a starting point, this is not what a traditional practitioner would do, she or he will first determine the sitting and facing direction and then take accurate compass direction, then the door would be taken into account.90004 90163 90014 Now I know my directions, what now? 90015 90004 90163 So your property faces 319 degrees and sits 139 degrees, use the chart below to find out the Trigram for your home. A property that faces 319 degrees is a Sun (Xun) house. Having this information will tell you that this year 2002 you will need to activate the north-east for wealth and more importantly you need to weaken the deadly 2 – 5 stars in the east otherwise your health, wealth and luck will be affected. This is going into a more detailed version of traditional Feng Shui if you would like further details on our comprehensive on-line consultations click here.These reports are very in-depth and do not just take into account your home they also analyse you and your family as individuals to make sure you face your best direction when working, sleeping, relaxing etc. 90004 90163 90014 Example Flying star for a 90060 Sun Trigram house. 90015 90004 90163 90175 90004 90163 90014 Compass graduations and their 90060 corresponding house Trigrams. 90015 90004 90182 90183 90184 90185 House Trigram 90186 90185 Compass reading 90186 90185 Facing direction 90186 90185 Sitting direction 90186 90193 90184 90185 Kan 90186 90185 157.5 90014 90060 90015 – 202.5 90186 90185 South 90186 90185 North 90186 90193 90184 90185 Ken 90186 90185 202.5 – 247.5 90186 90185 South-west 90186 90185 North-east 90186 90193 90184 90185 Chen 90186 90185 247.5 – 292.5 90186 90185 West 90186 90185 East 90186 90193 90184 90185 Sun 90186 90185 292.5 – 337.5 90186 90185 North-west 90186 90185 South-east 90186 90193 90184 90185 Li 90186 90185 337.5 – 22.5 90186 90185 North 90186 90185 South 90186 90193 90184 90185 Kun 90186 90185 22.5 – 67.5 90186 90185 Northeast 90186 90185 Southwest 90186 90193 90184 90185 Tui 90186 90185 67.5 – 112.5 90186 90185 East 90186 90185 West 90186 90193 90184 90185 Ch’ien 90186 90185 112.5 – 157.5 90186 90185 South-east 90186 90185 North-west 90186 90193 90277 90278 90163 90014 Our comprehensive on-line reports contain the following: 90015 90004 90002 90284 Professionally prepared accurate ground floor plans 90004 90002 90284 Ground floor plan with Flying Stars “Xuan Kong” “Fei Xing” superimposed 90004 90002 90284 Eight Mansions analysis “Ba Zhai “(4 good and 4 bad areas of your home) 90004 90002 90284 Your personal Min Gua Trigram and up to 4 other family members 90004 90002 90284 Which direction you and your family members should sleep 90004 90002 90284 Which direction you and your family members should face when working 90004 90002 90284 Your true personal element 90004 90002 90284 Your favourable / unfavourable elements and colours 90004 90002 90 284 Ground floor plan superimposed with Eight mansions (Ba Zhai) analysis 90004 90002 90284 Flying star “Xuan Kong” “Fei Xing” analysis report on your home.90004 90002 90284 Your house Trigram 90004 90002 90284 You and your family’s Chinese animal and prediction for the year. 90004 90002 90284 Form School Analysis from photos supplied. 90004 90002 90284 Use of the “Five Elements” in your home. 90004 90002 90284 Advice on how to activate your wealth, health, career, fame and romance sectors. 90004 90002 90284 Where to place a water feature for wealth. 90004 90002 90284 We will accurately determine the centre of your home and give true compass bearings grom reading you give us.90004 90002 90284 How to rectify a missing corner if you have one. 90004 90002 90284 E-mail support after your consultation. 90004 90002 90284 A Dusty Miller happy home kit to clear negative energy. 90004 90002 We are more than happy to share our content; all you need to do is give us credit for our hard work and a link back to our website. You can download and save a printer-friendly PDF file that can be emailed or use any of the vast amounts of share button son the website, the more you share the better the Karma …! 90004 90005 © Feng Shui Store Daniel Hanna 2017 90004 90005 90348 90004.90000 Siding Types & Costs: Which is Best? How to Choose Siding? 90001 90002 Siding is important! 90003 90004 90005 There is no stage of home construction that you should rush through, but if there were, it should not be siding 90006. Whatever type of siding product you choose, purchase and installation is not cheap, so you do not want to do it again anytime soon. 90007 90004 Your siding needs to protect your home from the weather, while at the same time allowing air flow so your interior wall can shed moisture from outside and humidity from inside.And it has to accomplish both these tasks with style, as your choice of siding will be the first thing you see every time you come home, and rightly or wrongly the surface finish is what drives perceptions about the quality of the home. With siding though, it’s important to remember that beauty is more than skin deep. 90007 90004 Depending on the profile of your site and design of your home, gaining access to some higher parts for the siding installation might be difficult. In construction, ‘difficult’ translates into either dangerous, time consuming or expensive depending on how much of your own maintenance you do.90007 90004 For that reason, in the page below we have given an overview of a variety of siding products, giving you an idea of ​​the performance you can expect, cost, general maintenance requirements and durability. 90007 90014 Siding installation tips: 90015 90004 Whatever siding you choose, creating an air space behind it where water can drain and moisture can dry is the key. The following video is about wood siding installation, but includes simple tips for creating a breathable air space to allow walls to dry.You can also read our 90005 Guide on Siding Installation here 90006. 90007 90004 90007 90004 90023 90024 90007 90002 Solid wood siding 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90005 90006 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 90005 Wood siding fitted horizontally © Ecohome 90006 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90046 90047 90005 Pros of Wood Siding: 90006 It makes for a great looking traditional finish to the siding on a home. Certainly with FSC wood siding, extraction & manufacturing can be sustainable, and very little pollution is generated in production and manufacturing.Wood is abundantly available to us in Canada & North America, provided that forests are managed properly. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of Wood Siding: 90006 It is not the most durable choice to protect your home from weather, and clearly wood siding is not the best for fire resistance. Wood can be susceptible to damage from insects and rodents, as well as mold and rot from moisture & humidity. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of wood siding: 90006 $ 8 to $ 20 per square foot installed, depending on type of wood, style and the complexity of the job.90050 90047 90005 Expected siding lifespan: 90006 Durability of 90005 90006 40 to 55 years if the wood siding is regularily & carefully maintained 90050 90065 90004 Note: There are companies that offer pre-painted wood siding products, a quality that you can not match on a ladder with a brush. Several coats of paint are applied, to both sides, so your job is simply to cut the siding to length, paint the ends, and install it. A reputable company will give your siding a warranty up around 15 years, and potentially up to 30 years if you apply a coat of paint within that first 15 years.90007 90004 If you prefer to paint your wood siding yourself, it will be a lot easier (and a better quality) if you do it on the ground before installation. It will require significant space to paint, but also the time to build drying racks for your siding to sit on while the paint finish is drying off. For more information on timber choices for framing a house, see here. 90007 90002 Composite wood siding products 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 Composite wood siding © Céline Lecomte 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90004 Composite wood refers to the repurposing of waste wood into usable siding products.Small chips and sawdust can be steam pressed into a very close likeness of actual wood siding, including the addition of realistic looking ‘grain’. 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of composite siding: 90006 It makes use of post-industrial waste that might otherwise head for a landfill. Installation of composite siding can actually be easier than installing conventional wood siding, due to not having knots to contend with for cutting and fitting. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of composite siding: 90006 Composite wood siding faces the same challenges as solid wood in regards to performance and risk.Though raw material use is effectively eliminated, there is higher pollution during manufacturing than raw wood and you might want to look closely at the bonding agents to avoid plastics, formaldehyde & other toxic content. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of composite siding: 90006 $ 6 to $ 15 per square foot installed. 90050 90047 90005 Expected lifespan of composite siding: 90006 25 years and over if maintained to manufacturers specifications. 90050 90065 90002 Cedar shingles for house siding 90003 90004 Cedar is a beautiful wood commonly used outdoors because it is highly resistant to rotting.Left untreated its lifespan is not as greatly affected as other wood siding, but the look certainly is. Cedar siding will turn grey through exposure to weather and UV rays, and since that will not be even, the resulting color will not be either. So required maintenance of cedar siding depends a lot on your taste and the desired aesthetic for your home. 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of cedar siding: 90006 Wood is a natural product, and due to the length of cedar shingles (approximately 18 “), they can make use of shorter pieces of wood such as stumps that would often be left in forests, or post industrial waste 90005.90006 If you do not mind the look of greying cedar siding, you will not need to do a lot of maintenance. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of cedar siding: 90006 Very expensive and time consuming to install. And if you DO mind the look of greying cedar siding, like all wood products, it will require regular repainting, staining or oiling to keep a consitent color & finish. (See here for eco-friendly wood finishing products) 90050 90047 90005 Cost of cedar siding: 90006 Due to the size of shingles and the cost of cedar, you can expect to pay around $ 27 to $ 40 per square foot installed.90050 90047 90005 Lifespan of cedar siding: 90006 In and around 50 years, much longer with treated shingles and proper installation. 90050 90065 90004 90005 Note: 90006 In this writer’s experience, a step that is often missed in the installation of cedar shakes is creating an air space and drainage plane. One of the cheapest and most effective spacers can be a dimpled foundation membrane cut into 2 “strips. This method allows for an air space, but also allows vertical drainage, where a strip of solid wood limits air flow and drying.90007 90002 Brick and stone exterior finishes for homes 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90005 90006 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 90005 Rustic Brick Wall Finish © Marlon Bunday 90006 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of brick wall finishes: 90006 Very low maintenance and its performance is excellent. Brick and stone resist weathering, and are virtually unassailable from pests, insects, mold, and fire. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of brick wall finishes: 90006 Regarding brick and fabricated stone products, production is very clean but demand a significant amount of embodied energy throughout the extraction and production process.Moreover, it is not easy to install. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of brick wall finishes: 90006 Very expensive – “If you have to ask …” 90050 90047 90005 Expected Lifespan of brick wall finishes: 90006 longer than yours! 90050 90065 90002 Stucco wall finishes 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 Stucco Wall Finish © Yanni Milon 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90004 Stucco refers to a thin coating of troweled or sprayed on cementituous surface finish that is applied to exterior walls to keep them waterproof and protected.90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of stucco: 90006 Performs well against pests and rodents; raw materials are relatively abundant; fairly resistant to fire. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of stucco: 90006 Concrete is highly polluting and energy intensive in its production; poor resistance to weathering; difficult to install and maintain. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of stucco 90006: $ 3 to $ 12 per square foot installed. 90050 90047 90005 Expected lifespan of stucco: 90006 50-75 years. 90050 90065 90002 Acrylic wall coverings 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 Acrylic wall coverings © Céline Lecomte 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90004 Acrylic siding materials are composed of concrete, glass fiber and polystyrene.Suppliers sometimes claim that in addition to siding they also act as insulators, but there is not much truth to that. Any insulation value it might have would be ineffective if you install it properly, which includes an air space between it and your main wall system. 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of acrylic wall coverings: 90006 Performs well against pests and mold and it’s quite versatile. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of acrylic wall coverings 90006: High pollution and embodied energy in the extraction and manufacturing process; materials can be scarce; poor resistance to weather and fire; not easy to install and maintain.90050 90047 90005 Cost of acrylic wall coverings: 90006 $ 9 to $ 14 per square foot installed. 90050 90047 90005 Expected lifespan of acrylic wall coverings 90006: 25 years and over. 90050 90065 90002 Fiber cement siding (Hardie board) 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 Fiber Cement Siding (Hardie Board) © Céline Lecomte 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 Fibre cement siding board was developed by James Hardie industries over a century ago as “Hardie Board”.The original product was made from cement and asbestos, modern day production has replaced the asbestos with healthier alternatives. Fiber cement board can be molded to any style, even to look like wood. 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of fiber cement siding board: 90006 Very strong and very durable; resistant to fire, insects and decay. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of fiber cement siding board: 90006 High pollution and energy consumption during production. This is a popular product in warmer dryer climates, but it does not perform as well in northern climates.While the product itself is durable, paint will often chip off during the freeze / thaw cycle. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of fiber cement siding board: 90006 $ 10 to $ 20 per square foot installed, depending on style. 90050 90047 90005 Expected lifespan of fiber cement siding board: 90006 40 years or more 90050 90065 90002 Metal siding 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90005 90006 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 90005 Metal Siding © AA Architecture 90006 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of metal siding: 90006 Highly resistant to weathering, excellent performance against mold and parasites, easy to install and maintain.It’s durable and fairly versatile, and when the day comes that someone is taking down your home, it will unquestionably be recycled. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of metal siding: 90006 Production (mining) is not at all green, metal has a high embodied energy. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of metal siding: 90006 $ 8 to $ 20 per square foot installed. 90050 90047 90005 Expected lifespan of metal siding: 90006 50 years and over. 90050 90065 90004 Many types and styles of metal siding can be found.Pre-finished steel, galvanized steel, copper, zinc, most commonly of course would be aluminum siding. 90007 90002 Vinyl / PVC siding 90003 90028 90029 90030 90031 90005 90006 90034 90035 90030 90031 90004 90005 Vinyl Siding © Céline Lecomte 90006 90007 90034 90035 90044 90045 90004 90007 90046 90047 90005 Pros of vinyl siding: 90006 Highly resistant to weathering. Very good against pests and mold. Fairly easy to install and easy to maintain. 90050 90047 90005 Cons of vinyl siding: 90006 Cons: It is derived in part from natural gas, which is not renewable, however the largest component that goes into its manufacturing is salt.For consideration in developments and construction that require fire ratings, vinyl siding may need to be used with other building materials to achieve certain fire ratings. Vinyl is technically recyclable but very rarely recycled. 90050 90047 90005 Cost of vinyl siding 90006: $ 4 to $ 12 per square foot installed. 90050 90047 90005 Lifespan of vinyl siding: 90006 40 years and over. 90050 90065 90002 Siding options; final thoughts 90003 90004 Regardless of which siding you choose to finish your home’s exterior, one of the greatest ways you can protect your home is through good design.Extensive overhangs will mean that the majority of rain will not even touch your walls or the siding, this fact alone will greatly increase the lifespan of whatever cladding you choose to put on the exterior of your home. 90007 90004 Rain, UV rays and humidity are the three main factors that will cause the siding of your home to age and deteriorate, sizable overhangs can help protect you from the first 2 out of 3. Along with protecting your siding, shading techniques play an essential role in passive solar design or Passive House designs to avoid overheating.90007 90004 When choosing and installing siding, it’s important to remember that the exterior wall surface of your home needs to be able to be able to dry. That means allowing any water that gets in to drain out, and letting humid air escape – in modern energy efficient green homes using sustainable home design, the siding’s principle role is to protect the air and weather barriers from deterioration while looking beautiful, effortlessly. 90007 90014 Siding Products, further reading: 90015 90014 From the EcoHome 90005 Green Building Guides 90006 – in 90005 North America’s favorite Sustainable Construction website… EcoHome.net 90006 90015 .90000 Hong Kong’s metal cage homes: How tens of thousands live in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches 90001 90002 Where home is a metal cage: How tens of thousands of Hong Kong’s poorest are forced to live in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches 90003 90004 90005 90006 Leung Cho-yin, 67, pays £ 105 a month for a cage in dilapidated apartment 90007 90006 210,000 people are on waiting list for public housing, double from 2006 90007 90006 Leung and his elderly roommates wash their clothes in a bucket 90007 90012 90013 By Nick Enoch And Associated Press 90014 90013 Published: 90016 22:05 BST, 7 February 2013 90017 90014 90013 For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak .90003 90014 90013 For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage. 90003 90014 90013 The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars (£ 105) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighborhood. 90003 90014 90013 Home to tens of thousands, such cages – stacked on top of each other – measure 6ft by 2.5ft. 90003 90014 90031 90031 90013 Cheng Man Wai, 62, lies in the cage, measuring 16sq ft, which he calls home in Hong Kong 90014 90035 90035 90013 Many have been forced by skyrocketing housing prices to live in cramped, dirty and unsafe conditions.Above, Yeung Ying Biu, 77, sits next to his cage 90014 90039 90039 90013 Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what’s known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks 90014 90013 To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages ‘ wooden planks instead of mattresses.90003 90014 90013 ‘I’ve been bitten so much I’m used to it,’ said Leung, rolling up the sleeve of his oversized blue fleece jacket to reveal a red mark on his hand. 90003 90014 90013 ‘There’s nothing you can do about it. I’ve got to live here. I’ve got to survive, ‘he said as he let out a phlegmy cough. 90003 90014 90013 Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what’s known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group.90014 90013 The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks. 90003 90014 90013 They’re a grim counterpoint to the southern Chinese city’s renowned material affluence. 90003 90014 90013 Forced by skyrocketing housing prices to live in cramped, dirty and unsafe conditions, their plight also highlights one of the biggest headaches facing Hong Kong’s unpopular Beijing-backed leader: growing public rage over the city’s housing crisis.90003 90014 90063 90063 90013 Home prices rose 23 per cent in the first 10 months of 2012. Pictured, Cheng Man Wai, 62, climbs up to his accommodation 90014 90067 90067 90013 Legislator Frederick Fung compared the effect on the poor to a lab experiment 90014 90071 90071 90013 The widespread poverty is a grim counterpoint to the southern Chinese city’s renowned material affluence. Above, the exclusive Victoria Peak neighbourhood 90014 90013 Leung Chun-ying took office as Hong Kong’s chief executive in July pledging to provide more affordable housing in a bid to cool the anger.90003 90014 90013 Home prices rose 23 per cent in the first 10 months of 2012 and have doubled since bottoming out in 2008 during the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund said in a report last month. Rents have followed a similar trajectory. 90003 90014 90013 The soaring costs are putting decent homes out of reach of a large portion of the population while stoking resentment of the government, which controls all land for development, and a coterie of wealthy property developers.90003 90014 90013 ‘There’s nothing you can do about it. I’ve got to live here. I’ve got to survive ‘- Leung Cho-yin, 67 90003 90014 90013 Housing costs have been fuelled by easy credit thanks to ultralow interest rates that policymakers can not raise because the currency is pegged to the dollar. Money flooding in from mainland Chinese and foreign investors looking for higher returns has exacerbated the rise. 90003 90014 90013 In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.90003 90014 90013 ‘Many families have to move into smaller or older flats, or even factory buildings,’ he said. 90003 90014 90013 ‘Cramped living space in cage homes, cubicle apartments and sub-divided flats has become the reluctant choice for tens of thousands of Hong Kong people,’ he added, as he unveiled plans to boost supply of public housing in the medium term from its current level of 15,000 apartments a year. 90014 90013 His comments mark a distinct shift from predecessor Donald Tsang, who ignored the problem.90014 90100 90100 90013 Lee Tat-fong, 63, is hoping she and her two grandchildren (pictured) can get out of the cubicle apartment they share in their Wan Chai neighborhood, but she has no idea how long it will take 90014 90104 90104 90013 Anger over housing prices is a common theme in increasingly frequent anti-government protests 90014 90013 Legislators and activists, however, slammed Leung for a lack of measures to boost the supply in the short term. Some 210,000 people are on the waiting list for public housing, about double from 2006.90003 90014 90013 About a third of Hong Kong’s 7.1 million population lives in public rental flats. When apartments bought with government subsidies are included, the figure rises to nearly half. 90003 90014 90013 Anger over housing prices is a common theme in increasingly frequent anti-government protests. 90014 90013 Legislator Frederick Fung warns there will be more if the problem can not be solved. He compared the effect on the poor to a lab experiment. 90014 90013 ‘When we were in secondary school, we had some sort of experiment where we put many rats in a small box.They would bite each other, ‘said Fung. 90003 90014 90013 ‘When living spaces are so congested, they would make people feel uneasy, desperate,’ and angry at the government, he said. 90003 90014 90013 Leung, the cage dweller, had little faith that the government could do anything to change the situation of people like him. 90003 90014 90013 ‘There’s too little space here. We can barely breathe ‘- Lee Tat-fong, 63 90003 90014 90013’ It’s not whether I believe him or not, but they always talk this way.What hope is there? ‘ said Leung, who has been living in cage homes since he stopped working at a market stall after losing part of a finger 20 years ago. 90003 90014 90013 With just a Grade 7 education, he was only able to find intermittent casual work. 90003 90014 90013 He has not applied for public housing because he does not want to leave his roommates to live alone and expects to spend the rest of his life living in a cage. 90003 90014 90013 His only income is HK $ 4,000 (£ 330) in government assistance each month.After paying his rent, he’s left with $ 2,700 (£ 220), or about HK $ 90 (£ 7.40) a day. 90003 90014 90013 ‘It’s impossible for me to save,’ said Leung, who never married and has no children to lean on for support. 90003 90014 90013 Leung and his roommates, all of them single, elderly men, wash their clothes in a bucket. The bathroom facilities consist of two toilet stalls, one of them adjoining a squat toilet that doubles as a shower stall. 90003 90014 90013 There is no kitchen, just a small room with a sink.The hallway walls have turned brown with dirt accumulated over the years. 90003 90014 90013 While cage homes, which sprang up in the 1950s to cater mostly to single men coming in from mainland China, are becoming rarer, other types of substandard housing such as cubicle apartments are growing as more families are pushed into poverty. 90003 90014 90013 Nearly 1.19 million people were living in poverty in the first half of last year, up from 1.15 million in 2011, according to the Hong Kong Council Of Social Services.90014 90156 90156 90013 Nearly 1.19 million people were living in poverty in the first half of last year, up from 1.15 million in 2011, according to the Hong Kong Council Of Social Services 90014 90013 There’s no official poverty line but it’s generally defined as half of the city’s median income of HK $ 12,000 (£ 985) a month. 90003 90014 90013 Many poor residents have applied for public housing but face years of waiting. Nearly three-quarters of 500 low-income families questioned by Oxfam Hong Kong in a recent survey had been on the list for more than four years without being offered a flat.90014 90013 Lee Tat-fong is one of those waiting. The 63-year-old is hoping she and her two grandchildren can get out of the cubicle apartment they share in their Wan Chai neighborhood, but she has no idea how long it will take. 90003 90014 90013 Lee, who suffers from diabetes and back problems, takes care of Amy, nine, and Steven, 13, because their father has disappeared and their mother – her daughter – can not get a permit to come to Hong Kong from mainland China. An uncle occasionally lends a hand.90003 90014 90013 The three live in a 50sq ft room, one of seven created by subdividing an existing apartment. 90003 90014 90013 A bunk bed takes up half the space, a cabinet most of the rest, leaving barely enough room to stand up in. The room is jammed with their possessions: plastic bags filled with clothes, an electric fan, Amy’s stuffed animals, cooking utensils. 90003 90014 90013 ‘There’s too little space here. We can barely breathe, ‘said Lee, who shares the bottom bunk with her grandson.90003 90014 90013 They share the communal kitchen and two toilets with the other residents. Welfare pays their HK $ 3,500 (£ 285) monthly rent and the three get another HK $ 6,000 (£ 490) for living expenses but the money is never enough, especially with two growing children to feed. 90003 90014 90013 Lee said the two often wanted to have McDonald’s because they were still hungry after dinner, which on a recent night was meagre portions of rice, vegetables and meat. 90003 90014 90013 The struggle to raise her two grandchildren in such conditions was wearing her out.90003 90014 90013 ‘It’s exhausting,’ she said. ‘Sometimes I get so pent up with anger, and I cry but no one sees because I hide away.’ 90014.