hello all,
I asked my builder last night about using foil faced polyiso, he gets back to me and tells me he’s been told by the supply company about the foil getting very hot and melting the vinyl siding. anybody ever heard of that?
hello all,
I asked my builder last night about using foil faced polyiso, he gets back to me and tells me he’s been told by the supply company about the foil getting very hot and melting the vinyl siding. anybody ever heard of that?
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After you stopped laughing, what did he say?
Why yes, the sun in Central New Jersey is so incredibly hot you have to periodicly run water on your roof so the asphalt shingles don't spontaiously ignite!
Seriously:
Your builder is gullible, or thinks you are.
or
The supplier is giving you siding made from wax, not vinyl.
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
i told him nicely that i suspect that there were other reasons why the siding melted.
I've seen puckered/melted vinyl siding on a house that itself wasn't directly involved in a fire only when:
1) The house next door caught on fire.
2) A BBQ grill was used near the house.
3) A large brush pile was burned in the yard too close to the house. That one even cracked a couple of windows.
some of my siding melted, turned out I had a window that had "collapsed glass", Anderson window. double pane, gas leaked out creating a concave window. this acted as a prism, focused sunlight on siding at very high temperature and melted it. had glass fixed, problem solved. window was on part of house at 90 degrees to the wall with melted siding.
There have been a few stories about windows being the cause, but that's one I've not seen one myself.
I've recently heard about that problem... glass collapsing slightly and turning windows into magnifiers. Apparently there is a fair amount of it in NC right now, a couple of different window manufacturers.
Here's a thread on JLC about melting siding. Some fairly ugly photos...
http://forums.jlconline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34021
Good to hear from you Dave. Tried your link and I have to register first, I'll check it out later. Just got my first issue of JLC this morning and about 1/2 the articles are things I'm currently researching for the beach house, looking forward to reading them.
Talk to you soon
Kevin
Utter nonsense.
jokes belong in the Tavern
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you can of course use foil faced polyiso, but don't put the foil side facing the siding...it will cause problems...the siding will get too hot...DAMHIKT