Comments on: Metal Siding That Looks Like Real Wood!! https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/ Fearless DIY Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jake https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1594111 Tue, 21 May 2019 20:13:07 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1594111 I called to get pricing on longboard…$20/square foot! That’s way too expensive for any real project. Sorry, longboard.

]]> By: Cortney https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1585929 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:43:29 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1585929 In reply to Jennifer.

Hi Jennifer,

Just a random commenter here. I saw this blog post and loved it, but wanted to let you know that there are a lot of aluminum siding companies that offer knots and textures. Longboard is one, but there’s also Luxyclad – a comparable product which has many films with knots. Hope that helps you for future reference, and good luck building your home! Sometimes, you can have everything! 😉

]]> By: Longboard Products https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1584928 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:47:10 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1584928 Thank-you for the wonderful blog post Mandi! Your project looks amazing, and great choice using Light national walnut.

]]> By: Jennifer https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1584925 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:18:36 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1584925 The extra cost would absolutely be off-set by the maintenance costs. We have real wood planks for siding, real wood board & batten, as well as real wood roof shingles (with rock 1/4 way up from the bottom) on a 40’x60′ shop we live in while we save to build our home. We have had to re-stain it twice now in 6 years (we have really cold winters and serious winds that, combined with the summer sun really weather it quickly). We used very high quality commercial products to coat it at 40% off sale and did the labor ourselves with the help of a rental lift and a commercial grade sprayer, all DIY. Tons of work just this spring and we spent about $2100. It looks amazing right now, and we hope this time lasts longer than 3 years, but even if it lasts 5 years, we’re talking at least $10,000 in 20 years ($14,000 or more at the rate we’ve re-done it so far–at that is doing it the cheapest way we can with DIY). Estimates for someone to come do it for us was really expensive. We love the look of wood, but that is pretty expensive to maintain if you have very much of it. Thanks for sharing; we may use this product when we eventually build our house. The only downside is that you don’t get the real wood texture and variances–I love the knot holes and various subtle differences found in nature that is otherwise absent in faux products. You can’t have everything, though. 🙂

]]> By: Catherine https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1584916 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:02:44 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1584916 Whoa! That’s beautiful and so worth the extra cost. Maintenance gets forgotten sometimes anyway, and if I had to get that high up to maintain something, I probably never would.

]]> By: Joe https://vintagerevivals.com/metal-siding-looks-like-real-wood/#comment-1584908 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:28:15 +0000 https://vintagerevivals.com/?p=6504498#comment-1584908 Check out https://www.Qualityedge.com

They also make a product that looks like wood!

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