Why Siding Replacement Is Better Than a Paint Job

A dislike of the exterior color of a house often results in the homeowner painting the siding. While PVC siding is fine being painted another color, you might want to avoid this seemingly cheaper option. In the long run, it isn’t as cheap as you might think.

Paint Fades Faster

Even paint that is made for outdoor use will fade faster than the more modern PVC siding. That color you choose to paint your home’s exterior will be faded and ugly in about three years or less. New siding will not fade as it is now made to be UV resistant. It takes many years to even fade a little bit, preserving the curb appeal of your home.

Paint Can’t Hide Cracks and Holes

Paint can’t hide the cracks and holes that already exist in your siding. Painting over it just makes the holes and cracks more glaring. There’s no patch for it and replacing single pieces of siding prior to painting will make it obvious which pieces are new versus which parts of the siding are old.

Paint Will Peel

Older siding doesn’t hold paint well. After being out in the elements, the paint will begin peeling and curling off of the siding. After a year, the paint will make the old siding look really raggedy. Then you are stuck scraping it all off and starting fresh to paint it again. You will have to buy more paint and painting supplies and repeat this process every one to three years when you could have just replaced the siding and had a great looking exterior on your house for at least the next twenty years.

Siding Has Even More Colors and Styles Now

Paint may be colorful, but new home siding has gained more colors and styles than thirty or forty years ago. You have just as much variety in siding as you would with paint. Replace the siding and skip the mess of paint.