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Installing Smartside Engineered Wood Siding

Bob meets Lance Olson of Louisiana Pacific as LP's Smartside lap siding is installed on a Mashpee house. SmartSide is a treated engineered wood siding made of medium density oriented strand board (MDO) with a textured face that is embossed during manufacture. It's rough, cedar-look texture is intended to mirror recent cladding trends as homebuilders have started to turn boards rough side out to give texture to the facade and also provide a better surface for paint. SmartSide is very affordable and cost effective at about one-half the cost of traditional wood siding. It is engineered for its look and durability, is treated with zinc borate to resist fungal growth and termites, and resin bonded for stability. The manufacturing essentially takes the wood, removes its defects such as knots and splits, then reassembles it as a stronger, more stable product. It is a uniform thickness throughout and comes in 16-foot lengths for quick installation. SmartSide comes with a seven-year total warranty and a 30-year transferable warranty for material and labor. It comes pre-primed from the factory for additional labor savings and has a full line of trim to complete the installation. This New England home is using classic trim designs for corners and windows, with a frieze that extends from the roof line to the window, and window casing on the sides that meet the frieze at the top.
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Installing Smartside Engineered Wood Siding

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" That's tell us about what we're putting on the house here. This is our smartside lap siding and it's they treated engineered wood siding. Made of an oriented strand substrate with a prime textured face and what we're looking at is. But but the look of rough. Cedar on how do you accomplish that is it embossed. It's embossed during manufacture and so that there's no separate coating or anything right that's right OK and one of the reasons that we've gone to the rough texture I mean as I understand it originally. Everybody wanted that very smooth finish on the dressy front facade of the house. In the last twenty or thirty years. Clapboard people started putting them rough side out cause they gripped the paint better or the stain better that had I think something to do with taking up heavy metals from the paints. But it's interesting that the industry has addressed itself and is now creating something that looks that way. This is becoming very popular. Product for us based largely because of its appearance in the and in deep cedar texture that it gets is it affordable. Very affordable. There's a very cost effective product versus some of the older products that have been available well let's let's go down of the next house so we can see how it's being a -- aren't. Viola -- over here we've got full lengths of this product going right into place. And tell -- some more about it. But -- product -- it's engineered for its current scale and its great appearance but it's also engineered for durability -- it's treated with a zinc borate which allows us to resist fungal decay and wood destroying termites. It's also bonded together with the state of the art resin package if almost what -- things mean is -- it along with that it comes with a 730 year -- street."

" It's uniform it's the same thickness throughout -- not flared like. And old fashioned clapboard exactly it's it's a consistent thickness always here well let's talk some more about warranty that was pretty impressive. It to seven years fully trans it's -- 730. Year warranty is basically a thirty year warranty that's fully transferable. For. Material and labor and labor so you so how's the product is still under warranty for up to thirty years if if the homeowner sells the house that took the warranty transfers to the new owner had."

" What are the lengths that it comes and it comes in a sixteen foot length and with the way they weren't the way that we manufacture the product we basically are essentially taking the defects are of the wooden then re assembling the product without defects. What that means is you don't have that the common policy can have with wood such as knots or splits. Have they primed -- outsider does some preprimed comes preprimed from the manufacturer. There's a labor saving step. That looks awfully good let's go down to the other element talk a little bit about the trend is obviously -- before they started putting up the the field the clapboards. They've trimmed out the house. And we're watching over here as. A corner board is getting ready to be applied. The fellows built up the corner on the bench. So they can just bring it and shoot it in place. Now this obviously is not the clapboard but it still the same product right there were using for the trim stock that's right the technology is the same it's. It's the substrate is just simply thicker we make a four quarter and a five quarter trim both an -- in cedar texture. And in this to a surface and so the smooth surface is being used throughout our whole project here for all of the trim stock that's right. This will be face nails now and they just it is sentiment and and finish the house but the the way it's being applied is. They're very classic New England look where the breeze and the plaid shirt of the overhang come right down to the window. And the vertical pieces on the casing butt right to the underside. Of that frieze board. So -- I guess that dozens. The final thing I wanted to talk about is that the cost savings in terms of consumer and birth."

" There's. The cost savings of the smartside system versus some traditional systems are about. About half the price. So they're really it is about 50% of the cost that's -- that's terrific."

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