How to save the face

If on a facade the web of cracks in due course appears, it signals that the file of walls collapses. In other words, the house grows old. The frost and the sun, a rain and a wind, snow and a hailstones gradually do the dirty deed - put home unit out of action.
How to save the house from impact of adverse natural factors? The answer arises by itself: the attack is resisted always by protection. First of all it is necessary to protect a facade and a roof, after all these designs all surface accept a call of natural powers - and term of life of a structure will increase.
From time immemorial facades of houses in our country protected in the traditional ways. Inhabited constructions from a stone and a brick plastered, and then painted. Wooden sheathed and too painted. Year through two-three, and even earlier, again it was necessary to plaster, again to paint and etc. Comes the third millenium, and in Russia the majority of house-owners still, with caution on neighbours, houses plaster, batten, paint. Really all remains, how at grandfathers?
Not absolutely so. At last and to us new finishing materials and progressive technologies became accessible. There was a siding which has made revolution in building. This overseas invention personifies legendary прагматичность the American mind, ability comfortably to live with an abundance of things, without turning thus to their slave.


Siding by a nickname a sheet work

Mistrustful readers will sceptically smile: the pier, is that material which trading tents are retouched, snack bars and all doghouses and a city, I Answer: a siding to a siding.
To understand that there is a present siding, uneasy. I, for example, have spent for it not one day, receiving unconvincing explanations. According to unfair sellers, that is used for refinishing of external walls, and is a siding. Then to this category get both panels, and sheets, and many other materials. The error consists in terminology: a siding in transfer from the American English - "a facade sheet work". But a siding name even decorative panels that too it is incorrect.
The siding is intended for refinishing and protection of walls of buildings against external impacts. As a rule, it is a strip in length from two to six metres, width from 10 to 30 sm and thickness of 1-10 mm. The siding happens vinyl, aluminium, steel, wooden and cement.
Crisis, or profile, a siding happens unary - "fur-tree" or double - "a ship board". The profile does not influence quality of a design, everyone selects on the taste. The raised work, or the invoice does a siding similar to natural lumber. A coating (polymeric, or the paint) protects it from mechanical impacts and rust. The polymeric coating is more durable, but also paints are slightly more expensive. Siding strips are fastened with each other in the clasp-ratchet. The bottom part of a board is latched in the clasp with the previous strip, top is nailed up through punched apertures, and then latched with following and etc. accessories are necessary For siding installation - the complete set of is decorative-finishing elements.
 If to compare a siding with protective materials habitual for us (tab. 1), it becomes clear that the main advantages of a siding - working life and profitability. Expenses for its maintenance as it should be are minimum, and all leaving - to wash off a stream of water from a hose from walls a dirt and a dust. Expenses on refinishing of the house by a siding are quite comparable with expenses for refinishing by qualitative facing plaster . But already a year or two from now the owner of the house sheathed by a siding with surprise will listen to stories of friends how they grease in the spring and tint a facade and walls, annually spending forces, time and money.

Vinyl siding - the most important
From all sidings the major for us is vinyl: according to calculations of experts, it is applied in 55 % of cases (see the chart). Its popularity is based on relative cheapness, working life, speed and ease of installation. Unlike a masonry paint and facing plaster the siding does not demand wall surface thorough training. On the contrary, even if a surface rough under a siding it is possible to hide all defects. Refinishing of walls by this material is similar to a sheet work wooden вагонкой.
The vinyl siding represents the hard surface made of polyvinylchloride (PVC) in the form of strips with the clasp-ratchet and the punched bead for nails which easily gather in section of any sizes. The siding from plastic is a monolithic (homogeneous) sheet in the thickness of an order of 0,9-1,5 mm.
Such material does not exfoliate, is not blown up, not split and not shelled. He is not afraid of impact of a moisture, a fungus and insects, is steady against an adverse weather patterns, is not toxic. Even at a fire a vinyl siding only slowly, thereby weakening fire action on a house design. The siding does not change colour, does not burst under the influence of temperature and can be used in any environmental conditions. Sun rays do not influence in any way a qualitative material as it contains special additives (including dioxide of the titan), interfering  and to fading. The surface of a vinyl siding happens relief (under a tree) or smooth. Last variant is more low-cost.
The material is simple in installation, and restrained enough choice of colouring with interest is compensated by a numerous set of the finishing and decorative elements, allowing to give to a building the elegant and finished sort. The complete set of accessories includes component parts of registration of corners, frames of windows and doors (including arch), a ceiling of a verandah, a frontispice and etc. And there is a set of variants of their installation.

Were-nebyli
In spite of the fact that the vinyl siding is applied in building not so long ago, about it there were already any fables. For example, affirms that the material from polyvinylchloride is toxic, does not pass air and in general is harmful. This error as safety of a vinyl siding is confirmed by the sanitary-and-hygienic certificate. Besides devoutly caring of the health Americans hardly would began to live in the houses representing though the slightest threat. And manufacturers of a toxic siding would wallow in judicial proceedings and for a long time would be ruined.
On other legend, the siding badly transfers temperature drops, a strong wind and a frost. In these conditions the chilled material becomes fragile and, ostensibly, can crack from vibration. Actually, if the siding is established on the house correctly, with observance of requirements of an installation directions he is not afraid neither sharp changes of temperature, nor a wind with a frost. To it convincingly testifies more than 20-year-old experience of its operation in extreme conditions of the Far North, on Alaska and in Canada. Once again we will underline: the siding , is durable and calculated on work in a range of temperatures from +50°С to-50°S within 50 years.
And now we will cite the advertising leaflet of the trading organisation: "the Vinyl siding - a material easy. Its transportation is simple, and the most simple tools are necessary for installation only. It does possible to instal a siding own forces irrespective of a season". However, to cut a siding an ordinary hand saw it is possible only to-5°S. At lower temperature it is necessary to use the professional assemblers applying a special purpose tool which does not put a damage to a material. Cost of installation depending on complexity of object makes 50-200 % from the sum of expenses for siding acquisition.


A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
Establishing a siding, it is necessary to carry out each point of an installation directions. Most difficult competently to make a facade purlin that the siding has laid down exactly, without a wave. If walls straight lines the purlin is not required. Typical errors at siding installation: zinc-coated steel or aluminium nails are not used, the clearance space in 1 mm between a nail head and vinyl sheet is not left. In the first case on a material rusty smudges are formed, in the second - the material inevitably buckles and spoils, as cannot extend and be compressed under the influence of temperature. The design of track beds contains an assembly bead with punching, therefore, if to stem a nail into the middle of a technological aperture with a demanded clearance space the strip moves depending on temperature that change of its length compensates. Also it is necessary to leave a small clearance space between a strip and an accessory that it had possibility freely to move across.
The siding can be established horizontally, vertically or on a diagonal. On if a material horizontal in no event it is impossible to put it vertically, and on the contrary. Whether the house covered with a siding breathes? Certainly, at the expense of fanning through punched apertures. Besides, correctly executed installation of panels and accessories provides qualitative fanning of walls of the house, without passing thus water.


Taking an opportunity
At siding installation at the same time it is possible to warm the house. The wall is fitted  by a material, in a purlin framing the heater, then - a layer of a waterproofing material is established. And only the siding is then sewed. Thus, the house is warmed outside, and the area internal a premise does not decrease. The siding protects a building from adverse natural impacts (in particular from a moisture and fungus formation) and is simultaneously used as decorative refinishing.
The vinyl siding is widely applied in housing construction - since country houses and finishing many-storeyed buildings. It is important that to mount it it is possible on a wall of any type - plastered, wooden, concrete, brick. Thanks to it and old ragged buildings are reconstructed quickly and is low-cost, finding the style.
(For example, refuelling stations, sinks and so forth), it is better to retouch industrial targets and the structures needing strengthened protection against fire and excited environments a metal siding.