Vinyl Cedar Shingle Siding

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I know,vinyl?These day people want to forget about routine maintainence,so it has it`s place for these people.Here in maryland it can be 10 below to 104 and either flood or drought.Wood,and especially today`s paints,can really take a beating.
These old folks wanted to slap some vinyl siding on their old house down in Baltimore,since they weren`t able to keep painting the 70 year old cedar shingles.I hate to see an old house lose it`s character and they seemed to feel the same way.The vinyl cedar shingle-look is expensive compared to clapboard-look vinyl and they had a tight budget.They had actually talked to me the year before,but after getting someone else`s price first they told me they had to save or another year.I dug up a lower cost product that actually would install about as easy as regular siding.The "good stuff" installs alot slower and more of a p.i.a.,which I have a hard time charging enough for since the material is already so high.
The siding I found came in a color very close to their existing one,which they said they really liked.So,for a bit more than they had planned on again,yet at a discount from me,we came to an agreement.