Solid Foam Core Vinyl Siding

Or the foam board.

Solid foam core vinyl siding.

Solid core siding is a much more rigid panel that offers many advantages over traditional non foam backed vinyl siding boards solid core siding is essentailly traditional vinyl siding with a solid core backing. The layer of polystyrene in addition to acting as an insulator and. Traditional vinyl siding most wood sidings and fiber cement sidings typically have an r value of less than 1 0. You know versus the traditional siding material that you know that includes the backer board leslie.

The siding has an r value of 4 0. But my real question is the i m considering the new this new solid core vinyl siding material. A newer product on the market solid core or foam backed vinyl siding consists of siding with a polystyrene backing attached. This product has a solid foam core that allows the siding to lay incredibly flat on a humpy exterior wall.

This product helps form a permanent bond between the vinyl siding and the foam. Extensive laboratory testing and real life installations on over half a million houses during the past 20 years have proven the strength of this permanent bond. The solid core is a foam material that gets laminated to the backside of the panels during the installation and creates much more rigidity than traditional vinyl siding products.