Palliside or masada cladding

[alaska]

Have read the posts about pallisides and masada on this site but they are quite dated and was just looking for an update or whether any new posts are available. Looking to reclad a house of about 90m2 and would be interested in feedback about these two or similar cladding. Also whether people clad over existing or totally remove the old before new cladding is added, thanks.

[Vai-man]

I can vouch for palliside, easy to work with has a 25yr guarantee which alot of claddings dont have, dont have to paint it, i have done about 4 town houses in palliside the oldest being 7years and it doesnt show signs of fading or brittleness. You can use things such as cedar cornerboxes, scribers etc to dress it up a little and keep it low maintenance as well. i would definitly remove the current cladding so you can add insulation, and building paper to create a weatherproof layer, and also make good the current structure. Why are you recladding?

[alaska]

thanks for the info. Currently the house has a mix of weatherboard, palliside(i think) and cement board cladding - we will be looking to make the whole house more uniform and also to insulate at the same time.

[jimO]

one drawback is it looks cheap

[StJohn]

Hi Alaska,

I put Mitten insulated cladding on my house (260sqm two story) three years ago and love it. We did our research on all of the products because we are on the coast and never wanted to have to paint weatherboard or replace tin when it rusts out so we went with Mitten vinyl which is a Canadian product (but supplied here by a company called Thermalspec, their website is thermalspec dot co dot nz I think), we got it off them and they were brilliant, we just sent them our plans and they did the rest - gave us a price and liaised with our builder on install instructions. It just turned up to site ready for our builder to install. It took the two builders just over a week to do the whole place and then the scaffolding came down, no painters nothing so it ended up saving us on that end.

You can choose to have it backed with 20 or 30mm foam insulation to beef up your over all RValue. We went for 20mm. A huge selling point for us was that it also has a 50 year warranty on it so really we shouldn't have to worry about it again. We used Macrocarpa eaves and stuff just for a bit of detail and interest and it looks awesome still today after three years. The number of people that tell us they love our 'weatherboard' house is amazing, they don't even notice it's not wood until we point it out to them. We also liked that it had a texture to it rather than just a flat plasticy shiny finish.

So for us it ticked all of the boxes - really low maintenance, never have to paint it, has a robust manufacturer warranty. The only limitation would be if you wanted an outrageously bright colour because all of the colours were quite neutral, greys, browns etc.

Anyway, hope this helps - we spent ages deliberating but when we found the Mitten stuff we just went for it because it seemed like the pick of the bunch in that sort of cladding type and we definitely we/are really chuffed with it.

Cheers!

[north shore]

Our last house was clad in Masada, it was built in 1990, (we own a rental behind it, so are there quite regularly), it still looks good.

[StJohn]

That's great to hear - when we were looking around we went and saw houses in Christchurch with the Mitten cladding on them which had been on for 30 years and still looked great. We liked the fact Mitten has a wood-grain finish and wasn't shiny. Vinyl has definitely been the way to go for us right on the coast, we tell everyone about it because it seems no one realises it's even an option. Home build companies usually don't offer these products to their clients because they have their deals with the big companies that they can't/won't deviate from so unless the client asks for something else they don't get offered a choice. Of course, vinyl won't suit everyone but for people who want no maintenance and are interested in the thermal properties it's awesome.