Oil Canning Vinyl Siding

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Oil canning vinyl siding. Some manufacturers have had periodic problems with the mix and waviness can occur they call it oil canning. The vinyl siding institute and manufactures instructions are very specific and must be followed to the letter of the law or else you end up with what you have or worse. Imagine an old fashioned oil drum. If you pushed on the slightly curved bottom hard enough it would pop into the reverse shape hence the name oil canning.

It is seen as waviness in the flat areas of the metal roof or wall material. Read on and we ll show you how to clean vinyl siding the right way. Surface distortion of vinyl siding has been recognized as a problem since the early 1960 s when it was described as oil canning summers 1983. Luckily cleaning vinyl siding is a fairly easy job and there are a wide variety of products to help remove typical stains.

Very simply oil canning is the result of uneven metal flow during a drawing operation. Wavy vinyl siding can be caused by improper nailing but there is a known manufacturing cause as well. Having over 30 years in. Creating visible seams if installed improperly vinyl siding can make your house.

It is more common on darker colors that lighter colors or at least it is more visible. In technical terms oil canning is referred to as elastic buckling more commonly known as stress wrinkling. Vinyl siding is generally a great product but the empirical evidence of bad siding is everywhere and 99 8 of the time is due to improper installation. Beginning here we catalog all of the causes of and steps to cure or prevent buckled warped oil canned vinyl siding as well as other forms of vinyl siding damage.