Types of Siding

Whether you are starting a new construction or updating an existing structure, new siding has an incredible impact. It is the largest exterior building product visible, which also means it is the greatest defender of your home in rough weather. There are so many types of siding that offer different colors and performance. Great options include vinyl, steel, fiber cement and various types of wood siding. What is best for the home or construction project will depend on your climate, style and budget.

Engineered Wood Siding

LP Smart Side

Engineered wood siding offers the warmth, beauty, and workability of traditional wood with the durability of treated engineered wood. These products are engineered to eliminate flaws, resist deterioration, and be cost-effective to install and maintain.

Amerhart carries LP® SmartSide® engineered wood siding in a variety of styles, including smooth finish and cedar-grain textures, to help you create exactly the look you want.

These products are available pre-primed, ready to paint, or pre-finished to reduce field and labor time once installed. LP SmartSide ExpertFinish is in stock in 16 versatile colors!

Engineered Wood Siding

Vinyl Siding

Vinyl siding is the most popular cladding used in the United States due to its price, versatility and low maintenance. It is made from PVC and does not need to be painted or caulked. Vinyl is one of the lowest cost siding options that is readily available and requires few tools to install. There are hundreds of colors to choose from in a variety of styles and designs. Vinyl siding is very easy to maintain and only requires a wash using a garden hose on occasion.

Amerhart carries the vinyl siding brand CertainTeed. CertainTeed vinyl siding come in various styles, textures and colors with strong warranty protection.

CertainTeed
CertainTeed Siding`

Steel Siding

Rollex Teel Siding

Steel siding ranks the highest in strength and durability among other siding options. The metal construction provides a virtually maintenance free finish that is resistant to dents and scratches. It provides tighter seams and a more rigid composition that will stay true to form without buckling or warping. Steel siding is also green and safe for the environment because it doesn't produce silica dust like fiber cement siding products.

Amerhart carries Rollex steel siding which is 100% recyclable and safe to install. It is available in numerous non-fade colors that provide lasting beauty. Rollex Steel Siding offers total confidence by providing a limited lifetime warranty.

Rollex

Cedar Siding

The main reason an individual chooses cedar siding is due to style. Although cedar is softwood that is a great insulator, it is not as durable as other man-made materials and will weather throughout time. Staining cedar siding will help in maintaining its look, but it will need to be maintained by re-staining about twice a year.

Amerhart offers cedar siding from Columbia Cedar. Their bevel and rustic siding options provide natural beauty, durability and a charm that looks great on any home.

Columbia Cedar
Columbia Cedar Siding

Siding Panels

Tando Siding Panels

Siding panels are great advantage to the individual or contractor installing them. They are a lightweight option that is easy to use and provides a quick installation. The siding panels eliminate the need to attach each piece individually, and instead provide larger sections that can cover more area in less time. Amerhart carries many types of siding panels, from wood to Tando siding products.

Tando Composites raises the bar when it comes to siding. They offer a variety of beautiful shake sidings made of polypropylene composite.

Tando Composites

Log Cabin Siding

Using split logs as siding is done to give the building a traditional mountain or forest feel. Log cabin siding is usually made from dried and treated cedar, cypress, redwood, or pine. Log cabin siding will typically run on the more expensive side and require greater maintenance than its siding counterparts. These logs require painting, staining or a clear-coat regularly in order to maintain their natural beauty. Like with any wood siding, termites and other pesks may be attracted to them. Regular treatment against insect infestation will help deter this. It is best to seal any of the log cracks so moisture infiltration and decay do not occur. The installation of log siding is similar to other wood siding options and may require a professional or knowledgeable homeowner to complete.
Log Cabin Siding

Pine Car Siding

Pine car siding, also known as tongue and groove siding. Consists of fitting wooden boards together either horizontally, vertically or diagonally to create a flat surface. These boards typically have beveled edges and a smooth face. It is a popular siding option because of its versatility. Pine car siding can be painted, stained, and installed both indoors and outdoors to create vastly different looks.

Pine Plywood Siding

Plywood siding is ideal for exterior applications like home construction, remodeling, and industrial projects. Plywood is a lower-cost option that comes in large sheets that install quickly. Home Plywood siding offers a rough-sawn textured face with ship-lapped edges for a tight fit. It is used to create a beautiful rustic appearance and can be stained or painted to fit your style.

Pine Drop Siding

Pine Drop siding, often called Dutch lap siding, is one of the oldest forms of exterior siding. Pine drop siding is installed horizontally with the upper piece overlapping the lower for a very traditional look. Choosing wooden siding allows you to paint or stain it however you wish, but also means you will have to keep up with that maintenance.

Cedar Shakes & Shingles

Cedar shakes and shingles have a rustic style. Cedar Shakes are thicker, jagged in appearance, more durable and usually split on one or both sides. While cedar shingles are smooth, uniformly shaped and sawn on both sides, wood shake or shingle siding is installed over a solid surface with a weather barrier in between.Cedar shake and shingle siding will require regular maintenance, including painting and caulking.

Pine car Siding
Cedar Shakes and Shingles

PVC Trim

Apart from siding, trim is the next exterior building product that will help provide your home with eye-catching curb appeal. The trim brings the look of your home together and adds elegance. Trim is often made from wood or composites and PVC.

PVC trim is lighter weight, longer-lasting, requires less maintenance, and is easier to shape, mold or cut compared to traditional wood trim. It provides greater performance and aesthetic advantages that wood trim cannot provide.

Amerhart offers PVC trim from the trusted manufacturers Skytrim and Royal Trim & Mouldings. Their products come in a large array of styles and colors, so you can find the perfect trim to accent your homes style.

Skytrim

Fabrication

If you are want to add a customized component to your home or project, then adding one or more pieces of fabrication is the way to go.

From simple postwraps to the restoration of complex and ornate designs, the Amerhart Fabrication team creates custom decorative exteriors for residential and commercial buildings. Amerhart Fabrication uses only quality PVC products to create innovative decorative exteriors.

Amerhart Fabrication

AMerhart Fabrication Post Wraps

Post Wraps

Enhance the elegance of any home or structure by adding decorative columns. Column wraps, or postwraps, are a timeless feature and simple way increase the curb appeal of any residential or commercial building. A postwrap is a non-structural, decorative building exterior product that installs around an existing structural support, like a wooden beam. They are commonly seen on entryways and porches. Amerhart constructs their postwraps from high-quality PVC, so they are easy to maintain and built to last. Select from a variety of flat and tapered postwraps that can be personalized with multiple moulding profiles to match your style.

Amerhart Fabrication Custom Wraps

Custom Exteriors & Railing

Sometimes the general exterior and railing product offerings are just not going to be able to create the look you want. In this type of situation, the best solution is to get your exterior products customized. Whether you wish to restore decorative trim or install curved deck railing, Amerhart Fabrication can easily provide a custom exterior product solution. It is completely within range to re-create timeless mouldings on a building with many years of history. Also, a simple railing can be transformed to look more natural and luxurious by simply bending the composite to create curve appeal.

Amerhart Fabrication Gable Brackets

Gable Brackets

An easy way to add character and sophistication to a structure is to install decorative gable brackets. Gable brackets are ornamental pieces of architecture for the outside of a home. They typically attach to the soffit and are placed where the roof comes to a point. Amerhart fabricates PVC gable brackets, which offer low maintenance construction with a variety of widths and pitches available. If necessary, Amerhart provides custom gable bracket styles and sizes to guarantee your home looks exactly how you want it to.

Insulation

Installing a home's insulation should be done after the frame is completed. There is exterior and interior types of insulation that must be added to the structure. The exterior insulation is often called house wrap, and is a sheathing applied to the exterior walls and roof. Interior insulation is typically placed inside all exterior walls, attics and floors. Insulation is used in order to keep the home at a consistent temperature and improve its energy efficiency.

Housewrap

House Wrap

Once the skeleton of the house is completed, it must be covered with a protective barrier known as house or building wrap. This barrier prevents water from infiltrating the structure and causing damage like mold or wood rot. A long-time trusted house wrap (building wrap) comes from the TYPAR Weather Protection System. The TYPAR Building Wrap has extraordinary tear strength, blocks air and water, lets moisture escape, resistant to oil, tannin and soap damage, has UV stability and is incredibly versatile.

Insulated Sheathing Board

Compared to traditional types of insulation like batts, blankets and loose-fill, structural insulated panels will provide superior energy savings. The Atlas Energy Shield Insulation Sheathing Boards are a cost effective and energy efficient product for insulating a residential and some commercial construction applications. These panels are composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate (polyiso) foam core that is faced with trilaminate foil. They range in sizes of 4ʹ by 8ʹ to 16ʺ or 24ʺ widths. Custom sizing is also available.

Roofing

The roof is another area of the structure that will need proper protection from air and water. Once the roof is completed with sheathing, it will need to be entirely covered and weatherized.

Roofing Underlayment

A roof underlayment is a water-resistant barrier that is installed directly on top of the roof. It is the step after wood sheathing and the step before applying materials like shingles. This system will cover the whole roof and protect your home from the elements. GCP Technologies (formerly Grace) provides high-performance roofing underlayments, including Grace Ice & Water Shield, that have been contractors' trusted roof protection solutions for decades. Their underlayments are self-adhering and deliver the most superior waterproofing performance even in the most severe climates.

Soffit

Soffit is the material underneath a roof's overhang. It typically consists of vertical panels and looks similar to siding. A home's soffit is usually only seen when you're close to a home and looking up at it. Soffit works as a venting system to keep a steady airflow between the roof and attic. This helps prevent moisture build-up and mold. Rollex is a leader in the soffit business, providing one of the most durable siding options on the market.

Roofing Underlayment

Ventilation

Although a structure needs to be covered and protected with different materials, there also needs to be openings that provide airflow throughout it. A proper ventilation system keeps the air inside a building fresh and healthy, so that moisture, odors, gases, dust, and other air pollutants do not build up inside. Good air quality is the key to a longstanding, happy and healthy home. The vent manufacturer Lomanco lives and breathes by that statement to create state-of-the-art vents with proven performance. Their product offerings include turbine vents, ridge vents, static roof vents, intake vents, standard power vents, solar power vents, gable vents, foundation vents and even a variety of specialty vents. Lomanco makes it easy to create a proper ventilation system in any home.