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Mon, Mar 18, 13 at 8:42
| My husband and I are planning to have new vinyl siding installed on our doublewide this year. We have looked at samples of different types of siding available and I need some opinions on "dutch lap" siding vs. the traditional horizontal siding. Our MH is very long, and it seems to me that the dutch lap, while very popular right now, looks more narrow than the traditional siding once it's installed. To me, installing siding which looks narrow would probably make the MH look even longer and more boxlike, whereas using a wider siding might offset the length a little bit. Any comments, ideas and especially pictures would be much appreciated. |
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RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Our MH is very long, and it seems to me that the dutch lap, while very popular right now, looks more narrow than the traditional siding once it's installed. |
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RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Now that Mason has gotten his jollies spamming, I'll try to answer your question. I would definitely go with traditional siding. Simply because as you say, it won't make your home look so long. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| We were going to reside our dw as well. Everyone has their own taste, but for us since our home is small we have been in the thinking of going for the small cottage look,and to that end will be going with vinyl board and batten siding.The vertical lines in our thinking can make a dw look taller.and the batten gives off nice shadow lines. We are going with Certain Teed brand siding. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Thanks for your responses. I too would like to make my DW look more "cottage like"--it's just a real challenge with such a rectangular shape. I have found that landscaping in a cottage garden style has really helped make it look more individual. I like the board and batten siding as well--I'm afraid my MH might look weird since it's so long. But I think we're going to use either board and batten or fishscale shingles on the gable of the porch that we have added and also on the side gables to make it look more like a cute cottage and give it some individuality. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Yes it can be a challenge to say the least. We to have used landscaping to give our home the cottage feel. Good luck with your project ! |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Pictures please :-) We have been in our 2002 DW in upstate NY for 2 1/2 years. Started with a clean slate outside and after a lot of work, finally had some substantial perennial growth last summer and had a carport installed. I've extended the garden further toward the back on the side where the steps are. I'm going for a small cottage garden. This picture is when we bought the home - Muffin shrubs and zinnias everywhere :-( I'll post more pics in another thread. |
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| garden across front last summer |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Oh, what an improvement! Your gardening work is beginning to really pay off now. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| It's really pretty. Good landscaping helps improve the exterior of a mobile home just as much as any actual changes to the structure. I'm really interested in doing things to the exterior to "soften" up the boxy look at the mobile home. The new siding will help. We've done a lot of landscaping ourselves, adding a picket fence with a cottage garden around the entry. I think putting up different shutters will help as well. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Ingardenguy57, The more I think about your comment about board and batten siding, the more sense it makes. I've always liked that style, but thought that because my MH is so long, it would make it look longer. But I've been noticing a few houses that have that style of siding and it does seem to make the house look taller, which could only help with my long low MH. If you have already had the siding installed on your home, could you possibly download some pictures of it? It would be great to see it on another MH. All of the "visualizer" tools on the siding websites only seem to have two-story houses to use, which doesn't help a whole lot. Also, is this option more expensive than the horizontal siding? Any info you could give would be appreciated. |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| wanttoretire, your home is beautiful!! |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| have you considered HardiPlank? Just did my grand-son's DW last month and wow, what a change (even took off the skirting and ran the Hardy down to the ground/foundation |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| I've always heard that HardiPlank is really expensive. Is there a big cost difference between that and vinyl siding? |
RE: Question/Ideas about vinyl siding
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| Generally your insurance should be cheaper w/Hardi due to the fire rating. Click around the site attached .
Might help a little. I am in no way assoc.w/that site ~Just something I found while "googling"
There's a lot of articles and they don't seem to be selling a particular type. |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://sidingmagazine.com/
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