http://jackiecraven.com Home of author and columnist Jackie Craven Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://jackiecraven.com/2011/03/24/removing-vinyl-siding/#comment-198 Save The Vinyl for Records Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:31:33 +0000 http://www.distantdwellings.com/jackiecraven/?p=151#comment-198 A house like the one pictured really needs to be preserved in its original form; just about any covering would obscure its details. But plenty of plainer houses which would look just fine in brick, stucco, stone or fiber-cement siding get ruined by vinyl every year. Worse, while one vinyl sided house can be ignored, when a whole street is covered with it, or build-up with new, vinyl-clad houses, the result looks like a glorified trailer park. Thin, hollow pieces of plastic that are barely attached to a house just can't make it look good. A house like the one pictured really needs to be preserved in its original form; just about any covering would obscure its details. But plenty of plainer houses which would look just fine in brick, stucco, stone or fiber-cement siding get ruined by vinyl every year. Worse, while one vinyl sided house can be ignored, when a whole street is covered with it, or build-up with new, vinyl-clad houses, the result looks like a glorified trailer park. Thin, hollow pieces of plastic that are barely attached to a house just can’t make it look good.

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