[Greenbuilding] Aluminum siding?

[Bobbi Chukran]

Thanks for your reply, Ben.  The siding is white, wood grained, and  
is ugly.  I'd love to get some color on there.  One advantage to  
removing it is that we could add insulation more easily, or house  
wrap, and caulk.  As it is now, we can't get to the cracks under  
windows, etc. because of it.  I don't mind the aluminum from a  
distance, but they encased EVERY bit of wood in the stuff, so up  
close it looks like a space ship.  LOL. The original wood siding  
underneath is in good shape, but does need scraping/painting.

We have a lot of metal scrappers roving around here now, picking up  
stuff from trash.  We gave one young woman all the old metals from  
inside the house.  She made quite a bit of $$ from the old water  
heater, gas oven, wall heaters, etc.  She worked for the $$ in this  
heat, and had a truck, so I didn't mind, AND the stuff got recycled.   
The siding is a different story, though.  She mentioned going in  
halves on it since she does have the truck and we don't.  That's an  
option.

My preference would be to paint it another color, remove it from the  
rafter tails and let some of the wood show.  Not sure if that would  
work out, though.

bobbi c.


On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Benjamin Pratt wrote:

> If the aluminum is a lighter color, i would expect that it would be
> one of the best options to reflect and not hold heat