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Keep “Vinyl Siding Melt” Off Your Thanksgiving Menu

If you plan to deep fry your Thanksgiving turkey this year make sure you know the proper safety precautions to prevent problems for yourself or your vinyl siding. While deep fried turkeys taste great, deep fat fryers generate a lot of heat over a long period of time. This is the perfect recipe to cause heat damage to your vinyl siding. Excessive heat of this type can cause vinyl siding to warp or even melt. The smoke generated by the fryer can also stain or discolor your siding. For these reasons make sure to keep the fryer at least 10 to 15 feet from the house. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends the following safety procedures to avoid the more serious risks ...

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Installing siding: Do it Yourself, or Hire a Siding Contractor?

If you are thinking of installing new siding on your home, and you are fairly handy with carpentry tools, you can save a lot of money on the renovation project by installing the siding yourself--but it may be easier, and smarter, to hire a siding contractor for the job. Installing New Siding Versus Hiring a Siding Contractor There is much, much more to installing siding properly than just hanging it level on a wall. Foremost is the issue of water penetration--siding contractors know exactly how to waterproof your structure so water won't penetrate behind the siding and cause rot. If you are even remotely unsure of what's required to flash around windows, at abutting wall lines, and around doors, ...

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