Vinyl Siding on Fish house

[walksonwater]

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any bad experiences with Vinyl Siding on your fish house. How has it held up from trailering down the road and being in the cold?

Info appreciated!

I've been looking around at different options and the aluminum siding gets expensive.

[Rick]

Vinyl siding tends to crack when cold. A fish house tends to flex a little when trailering and vinyl siding generally holds out ok for a while. However, it's the classic case of you can pay a little more now or a lot more later if you go with vinyl siding.

Re-sale isn't as good with vinyl siding either for the above mentioned reason.

[Try Too Fish]

If you put it on the hitch end you will get a lot of cracks and chips from rocks off of the pickup tires unless you put a rock guard on the front!
Its cheap,looks nice(if its not broke) and dont add much weight!!

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Try Too Fish
Forced Too Work!!

[Dave]

I would think vinyl would not add any strength to the structure. I see that as bad.

[walksonwater]

Thanks for the replys. I was hoping to hear also from some of those that actually have a house with the vinyl on it.

My dilemma is if I go with the nice Aluminum siding, it's going to run me about $1200 to do the sides and roof. My shack is going to be 8 x 16 with an additional 4' v-nose.

The vinyl siding would have to have an underlayment for strength.

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[Rick]

You can get nice aluminum siding for your size house for approximately $630.

You should be able to get by with around 450 feet.

Check out Road King Outdoors - Click here.

Then click on the "Premier" link and scroll down to the Options & Accessories. Their siding is the nice aluminum.

Get the best for less. Definitely try to stay away from the vinyl siding. Vinyl will cost you more in the long run. It will have a tendency to crack, I've seen them after 4 years of use and it's not pretty.

[hawkeye43]

Something to think about, is placing a rubber roof instead of alumimum roof. it comes in 10x20 rolls, easy to work with and a hail storm in the summer wont put little holes in it.

[hawkeye43]

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[walksonwater]

Thanks Rick, I'll check with Matt on the siding. I'm hoping I can get it 16' in length.

The rubber roof is what I am planning to do as well. Thanks for the replys.

I'm still waiting on my trailer to get finished up and then it'll be balls to wall to get it done I'm sure.

[swampman]

Walksonwater I have a house with vinyl siding that i got from a contractor friend .they tore it off a home because it faded a little but i got it for nothing so the price was right. this will be the third winter and so far it has held up fine. I dont trailor it down the road alot though so that could be a concern.also i have a rubber roof on mine with no problems.

[tightlines]

I see that you guys are talking about the rubber roofs. Could you tell me the process that you use to do a rubber roof? What size sheeting, pitched roof,flat roof,16"on center or 24" on center,how to tie into sidewalls etc. ?
BTW, walksonwater, have you considered regular house aluminum siding? Thats what I decided on because it is about 90.00 a 100 sqaure feet, and it should hold up a lot better than vinyl, and is light .

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[walksonwater]

Tightlines,

I've never done the rubber roof install before but I think my brother-in-law will give me a hand with that. From the sounds of it you just need to put an underlayment like press wood and glue. Here's a link I found:

http://frs.flatroofsolutions.com/install.html

I would prefer to do the aluminum for the sides but if it comes down to it I'll go with vinyl. Road King's price's are the lowest I've seen so far. Lenght is the key thought!

[minneman]

Go with CDX plywood for under your roofing, the press board (OSB) will be shot in no time with all the humidity in the house + freeze/thaw cycles. even with plywood you should try and keep it dry.

[jt24]

I built a 6 1/2 x 12 last year and used aluminum sheets that are 4x10 and it worked great. Riveted the bottom to the trailer and screwed the rest to the wood. Keeps the house on the trailer and stiffens the house up. There is no place for wind to come through except our vent holes. Sheeted the whole house for $250 and you can get it in different colors if there avaiable at the time. Ours is aluminum color with orange peel texture. Can be painted if you wish to do so.

[walksonwater]

Minneman, Thanks. You're right CDX plywood would be the way to go. Thanks.

jt24, I stopped down at Garelick Steel Co, they have pretty good prices. I'm hoping to get some siding where I don't have screws showing though. I'm still looking. Thanks!

I can't wait to my trailer so I can get started on this thing.

[tightlines]

Hey walksonwater: WOW, you are gonna have a nice large house. I was curious as to who you were getting your frame from or are you building it yourself? I bought a roadking from Matt and they build a really strong frame. Let me know because I have a tip for ya if you bought a roadking... Doug

[walksonwater]

tightlines,

I talked with Road King today and I'll be getting my siding from them, a great price and you can order it in very long lengths.

I just can't wait to get this thing going!

RB

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