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Comparing Real And Faux Brick Siding

17 June 2015 by Lucas Cox

Brick siding lends an air of sophistication and luxury to your home, and provides a number of benefits over other types of siding. However, there is a clear difference between real and faux brick siding, with each type of brick siding providing a different set of benefits and drawbacks.

Understanding the features of both real and faux brick siding can help you choose the one that best fits the needs of your home:

Real Brick Siding

Real brick siding is made out of, as the name suggests, real bricks, which provide a great degree of durability and stability to your siding. Real brick siding is highly resistant to both weather exposure and physical trauma, and will be able to protect your home no matter what the weather conditions are like outside. Additionally, the high durability of real bricks means that your siding will have an extremely long lifespan, requiring very little maintenance and repairs, thus cutting down on long run costs compared to other less durable types of siding.

However, real brick siding can be expensive to install when compared to faux brick siding. Furthermore, the weight of brick siding means that the installation process is fairly difficult, which increases installation costs and time. Additionally, the higher cost of materials means that performing repairs on real brick walls will cost more than repairing faux brick siding, which can increase long term costs.

Faux Brick Siding

Faux brick siding is much lighter than real brick siding, which makes it much easier and cheaper to install. Additionally, faux brick siding tends to cost less than real brick siding, as less materials are used, as only a thin veneer of faux bricks are used as siding on your home. This makes faux brick siding ideal for homeowners who are looking for an inexpensive but still aesthetically appealing siding option.

However, it is important to note that faux brick siding is not as durable as real brick siding, and can be easily damaged by physical trauma and weather exposure. This means that faux brick siding will require more repairs and maintenance to take care of its appearance than real brick siding does, increasing the amount of money and time that has to be sunk into maintaining your siding. Additionally, as faux brick siding isn't made out of real bricks, it cannot offer the same structural support to your home that real brick siding can, which means that it may not be able to be installed on certain parts of your home, depending on the layout of your house.

To learn more, contact a company like Rusco Industries.

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