[BroadHopper]

My dad had the cheap thin vinyl sidings that use to cost an arm and a leg back in the 60's. Bird drippings practically melted the sidings and the south side faded pretty fast. After a decade of BS from the mfg. we replace the vinyl sidings with fibrecrete. When we took off the vinyl sidings the old clapboards were rotted and the water channeled onto the sills and rotted them out too. My father was a carpenter and he saw his share of rot under vinyl sidings. The fibrecrete is much more durable and still in use.

I notice the vinyl shingles aka certainteed are a lot thicker and more durable than the old vinyl siding. I'm sure there must be better vinyl sidings today, however I was looking at a brand new stick built home that had the flimsy vinyl siding of old. They still make them. It was buckling all over the house and the seams shows. Maybe half a$$ installation? I don't know.