Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

Q. I’m going to be building a new home, and I have to make a decision about the siding. I can afford wood shakes and love the look, but I am concerned about long-term maintenance. Vinyl siding seems ...

Unlike wood, composite wood siding doesn’t require regular staining or painting and can be easily cleaned with soap and water. The durable material lasts 20-30 years, and resists rot, warping, and ...

Engineered wood can also weather natural elements better than an all-wood exterior. LP SmartSide, available in 16-foot-long boards that allows for fewer seams when installed, is one of the top brands ...

If you want your home’s cedar siding to live up to its reputation for longevity and decay resistance, make sure it’s treated or stained properly and checked periodically. Left untreated, cedar shakes ...

There's nothing like a deadline to get a long-stalled project back on track. And by long-stalled, I mean nine years. It was that long ago that I began siding the shed with to give it a rustic look -- ...

Las Vegas — DaVinci Roofscapes invested in a press and eight-cavity mold at its Lenexa, Kan., manufacturing plant that has opened the door to two new building products: its fourth shake profile for ...

When years of exposure cause siding problems it’s tempting to cover them up. These days that usually means a layer of vinyl, which has about 40 percent of the market, including new installations and ...

This summer, my family home turns 100 years old. Built in 1911, in a suburb on the east side of Seattle, it has an old oil furnace, uneven floors, bad plumbing and the kind of wood shake siding that ...

Wood composite (also known as engineered wood) siding, made with scrap wood and a resin binder, creates a natural wood appearance at a lower cost than wood. Unlike wood, composite wood siding doesn’t ...