LP® SmartSide® Trim & Siding: Siding Solutions Delivers For The Picket Fence

When building or remodeling a home, it’s not easy to find products that tic all three boxes of durability, beauty, and sustainability, especially when it comes to siding. Often, the most durable siding options sacrifice aesthetics and environmentally minded features for protection, or the best-looking options may need to be replaced sooner than others. With over 20 years of successful performance, LP® SmartSide® Trim & Siding was the best solution for The Picket Fence home, delivering on all fronts.

“LP SmartSide® trim and siding are engineered wood products that come in multiple styles and prefinished colors to complement any home,” says Cameron Bailey, Senior Corporate Brand Manager, Siding at LP Building Solutions. “It's also resistant to hail, wind, moisture, fungi, and termites.”

DURABLE AGAINST THE ELEMENTS

LP SmartSide® products offer advanced durability that will allow The Picket Fence to withstand Pittsburgh’s extreme weather year after year. The trim and lap siding features engineered wood strand technology and is treated with LP’s proprietary SmartGuard® process, which adds strength and helps it withstand impacts—including wind gusts of up to 200 miles per hour—, freeze/thaw cycles, high humidity, and more. Used on The Picket Fence, LP SmartSide® products will help deliver superior protection for the home against all the elements.

BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT

It’s the finishing touches of a home that are the first to get noticed. That’s why LP SmartSide® Trim & Siding come primed for exceptional paint adhesion and are offered in a collection of 16 versatile and beautiful ExpertFinish® prefinished colors and a variety of profiles—including cedar-grain or brushed smooth finishes. For The Picket Fence’s primary color, the project team chose Summit Blue, a playful, light blue take on the farmhouse-style home aesthetic, in a traditional cedar-grain texture that offers a natural appearance. LP SmartSide® Trim & Siding are both available in a variety of widths and thicknesses to provide custom design accents that take curb appeal to the next level. Long, 16-foot lengths also reduce the number of seams, contributing to The Picket Fence’s clean and polished aesthetic.

ENVIRONMENTALLY MINDED FOR THE FUTURE

Durability doesn’t have to mean unsustainable. All LP Smartside® Trim & Siding products are made from sustainably and ethically harvested wood strands, and their durability and ease of installation due to their long lengths cuts down on installation times and helps with jobsite efficiencies, helping builders save time and reduce waste. In addition, this siding has a carbon negative lifecycle impact—it stores far more carbon over its lifetime than what is emitted into the atmosphere during the manufacturing process.