Plant a landscape buffer between homes to prevent the reflections from hitting the vinyl siding.
How to keep siding from worping in hot sun.
No matter how hot it gets outside or how much your neighbor s windows reflect the sun the fact remains that fiber cement siding doesn t melt.
Stop the sun from reflecting off of window glass and melting and warping vinyl siding with ez snap exterior shades.
The window acts like a magnifying glass concentrating the sun s energy onto a small area.
You can see the warping on the siding with the deck boards perpendicular to the siding whereas the other siding has no warpage and the boards are parallel to the house.
Replace your siding with vinyl siding that is resistant to high temperatures above 250 degrees f.
Slowly lift up the end of the board making sure to not damage any of the material underneath.
This time of year the morning sun hits the deck and siding.
And am located just north of philadelphia.
Temperatures in these hot spots can soar into the hundreds of degrees.
It s a blend of cement wood fiber and other additives which produce a siding that has the beauty of wood and the durability of cement.
That s because fiber cement isn t a type of plastic.
This allows you keep the advantages of vinyl siding incliuding low prices and lightweight materials while avoiding future problems with melting.
The siding in question faces directly east.
It is almost always caused by the sun reflecting off a nearby window onto the siding.
However if the summers are particularly hot in your area you may want to consider replacing your siding with a different material such as wood fiber cement or another product that will not warp due to temperature changes.