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Factory Tour: Inside a Factory-Finished Siding Plant

For a 25-year warranty on your siding, don't hire a painter. Instead, hire a factory.

Length: 1:53
Produced By: John Ross

To learn more about the quality of factory-finished siding, Fine Homebuilding editor John Ross visited one such factory in Upstate New York. Once the siding becomes stable to the factories environment, it proceeds down giant rollers into paint bathes. The key inside the factory is evenness and consistency, and the target paint application is only 6 mil. thick.

Video by: John Ross

July 17, 2008