When it comes to installing a new siding on your house, you can come across Allura – a young and developing company established less than ten years ago. This manufacturer is a branch of a Mexican company, named Plycem, famous for its trim products. Exponentially growing, Allura had three fiber cement factories at the start, and by 2016 there were more than a dozen plants. Before launching its branch, Plycem invested in developing and researching fiber-cement products and came up with many improvements.
*pictures were taken from https://www.mittensiding.com
Allura Products
Toloka Corporation, as a General contractor and builder, can provide you with a wide range of residing options, including Allura company, as a manufacturer. Their fiber cement products imitate wood-like patterns, with more than 20 standard colors, allowing our clients to make their houses unique and aesthetically sophisticated backed by a 15-year coating warranty. It’s a great alternative to cedar without maintenance.
Allura Products
Most of the siding purchases by general contractors and dealers, so every client looking for an affordable and lifetime lasting residing option comes across our company. Why should you choose us? Because we provide high-class materials and experienced installing services, including one of the latest developing manufacturers Allura.
Allura company takes care of dealers and contractors, showing their importance. They play a crucial role in delivering the best products to the market. That’s why Toloka Corporation provides a successful, understanding service for its customers, supplying excellent materials from time-checked companies. We appreciate your time and make sure to provide the best quality for you.
Allura is known for respecting the provision chain. As a responsible company, it chooses to partner with only experienced contractors to grow with them mutually while serving the market needs every day.
Durable and developed products are made for you to have confidence in their long lifetime and high quality. Toloka Corporation makes sure that every client has especially developed design and development from industry-leading companies.
We make sure that all products provided and installed by Toloka are affordable and allow you to stay within your budget, despite the size of the construction project.
New-line durability
Many homeowners would question themselves while deciding to make residing works on their houses. Vinyl, wood, metal, and stucco siding options would look great, but most of them are vulnerable to moisture and ocean air exposure and have complicated and high-priced installation. Moreover, no manufacturer can assure its clients that, for example, wood will last more than five years without proper maintenance.
Fiber cement materials can solve all these problems with fiber cement materials. Reviews on Allura siding show us that young and bright manufacturers can make their products practically indistinguishable from wood or vinyl, still providing a 50-year warranty on them.
Fiber cement siding is beautiful and at the same time durable and robust, withstanding hailing wind and rain, especially during hurricane season. Allura materials are also well endurant with heat and UV rays, so colors won’t fade or wear off. A specially developed formula to protect you from cold weather typical in Vancouver also doesn’t ignite and is environmentally friendly. Each piece of the siding is adequately sealed to be resistant to any exterior impact.
As we mentioned before, all materials are provided with up to a 50-year warranty, but Allura siding colors, factory baked-on, are only offered with a 15-year warranty. However, this period is more than “slightly less”. It is still longer than you can expect from on-site paintwork to last.
The main siding types are
- Cedar Grain or Smooth Lap siding
- Smooth, Cedar Grain, 8” OC Grooved, and Stucco Panels
- Straight and Staggered Edge Shake
We have done a little review of each of those types and are ready to introduce them to you briefly.
*pictures were taken from https://allurausa.com/
Allura Lap Siding
Their product makes sure that it is long-lasting and durable, accenting your structure. Cedar Grain laps imitate an authentic wood look, maintaining its natural appearance while staying
Here is a brief overview of the various siding products manufactured by Allura.
Allura Lap Siding is available in 3 styles:
- Traditional Lap
- Smooth Lap
- 7” Perfection Shingles.
Traditional Lap is a siding that has a wood-grain pattern, allowing homeowners to reproduce their unique old-time and modern designs. Moreover, they can get a decent visual statement used to form an authentic farmhouse look and add magnificence to your house.
Smooth Lap siding is an entirely smooth board with a modern aesthetic for office buildings. These outstanding products are noteworthy, indestructible, with bright, intense pigments, in addition to that with authentic, ageless design.
Suppose you are looking for outstanding design features, including shingle texture. In that case, we strongly suggest you take a look at 7” Perfection Shingles. Available in 12’ lengths and are 7” wide, provided with a unique texture, making them look like shingle pieces, installed in one section, without putting up plenty of individual ones.
Available in 25 different colors, you can choose from 5 stain finishes offered for Traditional Lap and Shingles. We can assure you that such a wide variety of provided styles would make your house outstanding among others.
Vertical Panel Siding
We encourage you to select rich and eye-catching colors; however, we also provide neutral shades to satisfy any customer with their great pattern and pigments. With a warranty against cracking, scratching, and force damage, you receive an environmentally friendly and outstanding product.
Vertical siding can be used only as a partial decorative element at your house; its adjustability and elegance may give an exterior look a final, definitive touch.
Allura’s Vertical Panel Siding is available in 4 styles:
- Traditional 8” Groove Panel
- Traditional Vertical Panel
- Smooth Vertical Panel
- Stucco Vertical Panel.
Traditional 8” Groove Panels are produced with a special edge on both sides of the panel, forming a V-shaped groove where the tongue and groove joints come together. This type of planks was a standard wall cladding in Colonial-era homes, provided with different widths. Allura 8” Groove Panels with an updated design that imitates the pattern and texture of lined cedar boards. Installation can be provided with a variety of widths and lengths.
We can compare traditional Vertical Panels to Traditional 8” Groove because of similar patterns and the same color palette, but they are different. This siding is produced seamlessly, so the installation process is different. 8” Groove can be easily installed, with every panel basing on the previous one, while Traditional Vertical panels should be fastened to your exterior wall directly.
Smooth Vertical panels create a very modern look. As the title suggests, panels have a stucco look and texture.
The detailed history with the Smooth Vertical Panels makes any house look contemporary and often used in big cities, such as Vancouver.
They are all primed and sealed and available in 25 paint colors to create the design that best suits your home and taste.
Shake Siding
One of the most high-end and expensive siding options that Allura company produces are shakes and shingles. Their price can be explained by the beautiful look and imitating natural wood feel and look, without any maintenance.
Allura Shake Siding is available in 6 variations:
- 8-inch Individual Shakes
- Half Rounds
- Octagons
- 7-inch Shake Select
- 7-inch Straight Edge Shakes with the size of 16” x 48”
- 5-inch Straight Edge Shakes with the size of 12” x 48”
Looking for something unique that provides your siding with a “fish scales” design? Allura company made accurately detailed and architecturally correct Half Round overlaps, imitating wood patterns and providing various colors and patterns.
Also, you should take a look at Octagon-shaped shake siding, which became a new trend of exterior designs. The eight-pointed shape makes it look at old buildings and houses, underlining its historical value and sharp exterior features.
The 7″ and 5″ estimations allude to the amount of the shingle configuration uncovered beneath the shingle above it. The 7″ Shake Select has a fantastic edge, and the 7″ and the 5″ Straight Edge have an even edge.
The 8-inch Individual Shakes are for the individuals who love the appearance of customary cedar shakes. They come in simple-to-introduce boards that resemble 8-inch wide, singular shakes with either a straight edge or a fantastic edge appearance. The boards come ready for action for your preferred paint shade.
These are altogether accessible in 25 tones and five stain choices.
*pictures were taken from https://allurausa.com/
Installation requirements of Allura siding
As with any exterior covering, all Allura products require high-class installation, provided by a qualified and experienced work team. We encourage you to not risk and hire only checked contractors, which are required to keep your lifetime warranty on siding products.
How to paint and caulk your Allura siding
Toloka Corporation recommends not to caulk but joints to keep it free of upkeep, but re-caulking is needed eventually. That is why we decided to provide you with special tips for re-caulking:
- Caulking should be ASTMC920 and class 25 designation. (ASTMC920 is Standard Specification for Elastomeric Joint Sealants and class 25 stands for its sealant and adhesive qualities)
- Always apply only acrylic latex dye.
- Cut edges also must be primed.
- Never use paint or colorant based on oil.
- Caulking and flashing can be applied to all butt joints, but be aware that such a thing can add more maintenance in the future. However, it also protects your siding edges.
- Your contractor company should provide its workers with high-quality paint that has exterior grade and environmentally friendly.
Things to know when installing fiber cement siding
As you already know, fiber cement siding is not compliant material as others, so there a few things you should consider before its installing:
- It can’t expand. Allura siding doesn’t grow under the influence of temperature, moisture, or UV rays.
- Unlike with other siding materials, there shouldn’t be a gap between the panel edges. Allura siding requires at least moderate contact between the butt joints.
- But, when it comes to siding end edges, there should be a ⅛” space where it contacts other trim boards, panels, or corner boards.
- The same thing, when it comes to windows and doors: there should be a minimal gap of ¼,” and it can be expanded to a maximum of ⅛”.
- The maximum flashing that is allowed for Allura siding is ¼”. Otherwise, water would be gathering in it, which may become a big problem soon.
Storing and keeping Allura siding
- All types of installation works should begin with providing a safe environment on the construction site, wearing appropriate safety equipment such as dust masks, eye protection, hard helmets, and special gloves.
- Then, we ascertain that all of the material is kept covered, off the ground on a flat surface, preferably clean.
- It is essential to keep Allura siding away from direct exposure to weather; moreover, installation workers must not set wet products.
Installment with appropriate fasteners
- It is crucial to use long-lasting, protected from corrosion and acid solid frames so that siding will remain on its site during its lifetime.
- If your project requires fasteners, they should also be corrosion-resistant, hot-dipped galvanized, or stainless nails.
- All workers should know that using staples, D-head nails, and construction adhesives is restricted while installing fiber cement siding.
Cutting Allura siding on-site
- This type of exterior covering can not be snapped or scored and cut with a circular saw, miter, or table saw.
- The most important thing is to cut it outside, if possible, but if not, the room should be appropriately ventilated.
We would love to help you with your project and offer you the best product firsthand to see how the Allura company products can give your building the character and beauty you are looking for. Contact Toloka Corporation to make the first step towards your brand-new modern house.
