Lp smartside trim siding products are treated with our proprietary smartguard process.
Lp smartside lap siding problems.
Lp louisiana pacific smartside came into the marketplace in 1997 with barely a blip on the radar.
Lp s smartside also adds a seven year 100 percent labor and replacement warranty.
Problems with lp smartside installations lp smartside is the new high end siding of choice here in minnesota.
It used to be stucco but moisture intrusion problems with stucco siding made many high end home builders start using.
Smartside siding is available as lap siding or panel siding.
The coatings on lp smart siding can sometimes flake off.
The coating that you see on lp smart siding usually comes from the finisher or applier instead of the manufacturer.
Lp smartside is made out of what lp calls an engineered wood product the first step in the process involves placing raw lumber through a wood chipper to create wood strands chips that are somewhat uniform in shape size.
The wood strands are then fed through a mixing mechanism whereby all surfaces of the wood chips are coated with a mixture of waxes resins and zinc.
If they are used incorrectly then there is a high risk that the outer material can start to flake off.
The most commonly seen problematic siding out there hands down is louisiana pacific inner seal siding.
Collins and lp products both offer 30 year transferable warranties on their engineered siding systems.
It used to be stucco but moisture intrusion problems with stucco siding made many high end home builders start using james hardie siding.
Just a little history of composite siding.
Lp had just gone through the fiasco of their earlier oriented strand board osb siding product inner seal which had major problems.
Lp smartside siding is a manufactured wood product.
Yes there is still a lot of lp siding out there.
After forming from a georgia pacific spin off in 1972 louisiana pacific was born.
It is coated with smartguard lp s proprietary sealant which.
In the last few years this his changed.