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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If it's installed properly it should be fine. I stuck an unpainted chunk in a bucket for 5 months and it barely swelled. It is the same as all the trim that gets used on most houses(but I see many poor installations of even that when I look). They do have restrictions on installation, like keeping it above the ground a bit and rooflines need flashing and spacing. Nothing I ran into was an issue. I primed and painted all my cut ends on the garage. When I did my house they have a new product, the pro line that has lapping on the ends, so it's even better to install and goes up quick.
I do know they had a lot of failures in the 90's that gave it a bad name, but all those issues should be resolved.
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Hmm interesting because my house is from 2010, but if that’s the building code ruling on it, it would make sense.
I know from driving through my community there’s at least 8 homes on the main drag with the same issues I had. It’s a smokers patio over the garage that had the walls built out of LP products (I think?) where the walls went right down to the floor of the deck. Over the years it softened the walls to the point I could poke my finger through the rotted portions. That ended up leaking into my garage and partially (but not significantly enough) soaked a main support beam. If that needed replacing it would have been 10s of thousands to repair.