Many of our clients ask us to list the benefits of James Hardie Siding when we suggest that it should be installed on their home. While it’s durable over the long term, low maintenance, beautiful and weather resistance, it’s ability to resist fire is perhaps one of its most interesting characteristics. The video below offers a great explanation of how James Hardie Fiber Cement siding can resist fire. Note how quickly the vinyl is destroyed and how completely the wood is burned. The James Hardie siding however remains relatively intact over a long period of time.

In most cases this resistance offer fire fighters the time to respond and contain a blaze. In other cases this resistance offers you and your family extra time to evacuate the house. In the most extreme cases, such as those that occurred during the Boulder Canyon blaze in the summer of 2010, the fire resistance of James Hardie Siding protects the home from major damage.

Whether you are considering residing your metro Denver home, or you live in the foothills or mountains, you will hopefully never see the benefits of James Hardie’s fire resistance, but is sure is nice piece of mind to know that you have it!

As you are considering the painting your siding again this year? Are you looking forward to the weekends scraping, sanding, priming, and painting and/or paying someone else to do that? Have you ever considered getting James Hardie Fiber cement siding for Denver, Colorado home. Fiber cement siding offers you a number of benefits when compared to the maintenance that is required of wood siding.

James Hardie fiber cement siding offers is has the color baked into the siding. This is a great benefit for that damaging summer sun that so often can cause painted siding colors to fade in Denver and across Colorado.

James Hardie fiber cement siding is termite and woodpecker proof. While we don’t have many woodpecker problems in Denver, we have seen termites and other bugs problems plague many wood sided homes.

James Hardie fiber cement siding does not crack or rot as can often occur with with wood siding.

James Hardie fiber cement siding can be crafted to match almost any style, including the traditional wood.

When considering scraping and painting your Denver home, now is the time to consider James Hardie Fiber Cement siding for your home.

Call Scottish Home Improvements today to learn more.

Did you know that getting James Hardie siding installed your Denver home can lead to discounts on your insurance.

Denver is a particularly dangerous area for vinyl or steel siding. Both of these can potentially be dented or broken by the large hail that we sometimes experience. James Hardie Fiber Cement siding can withstand the toughest hail, wind, rain, or snow that Colorado has to offer. Did you also know that James Hardie is fire proof? The recent fire in Boulder demonstrated the ability of James Hardie Siding to resist fire. 2 of the homes in the fire area that did not burn were covered in James Hardie siding.

Because of its ability to resist the weather and and fire, James Hardie is your best siding choice for your Denver or Colorado homes.

Scottish Home Improvements is proud to announce our entrance into Colorado Springs as a James Hardie Siding Installer.  While we have worked though out the Denver metro area for over a decade now, expanding into the Colorado Springs market provides us with a number of new opportunities to bring our quality workmanship and low prices to another city.

Having completed hundreds of siding jobs across El Paso county and throughout Colorado Springs, our teams has more than 100 years of combined experience dealing with the unique needs of our varied climate.

Because replacing your siding is such an investment we work with only the best products in the industry. We work with James Hardie Siding to provide your home a beautiful and functional skin that is guaranteed for 30 years.

Call us today to schedule your free in home consultation. We hope to hear from you soon.

As summer comes to a close, its time to think about your windows and siding.  Fall is the perfect time to consider replacing your home’s siding.  Preventing Denver’s harsh winter sleet and snow from accumulating moisture in your home can make your home a healthier and more comfortable place to live. In some cases the addition of new siding to your home and the associated structural maintenance can help you identify the areas in your home that are losing heat. By identifying and sealing these areas homeowners can save up to 10% on their winter heating bills.

While Scottish Home Improvements offers Denver a number of different siding products, for most clients our premier product is the James Hardie products engineered for Zone 5. This line, called the HZ5 is specifically designed to stand up against freezing temperatures, snow, ice, and extreme seasonal weather changes. Like all James Hardie products the HZ5 line is both functional and beautiful. It’s broad range of styes and colors allows us to create the look and feel you desire for your home.

Denver Siding Warranty

James Hardie siding offers Denver customers one of the best warranties in the business. A 30 year limited warranty protects your investment. HardieTrim has a 15 year warranty.

Call us today to schedule your free in home consultation. We will come to your home, show you all the colors and styles that might work for you, and give you a personalized bid.

The Colorado Springs Home & Landscaping Show will be here this weekend, January 15-17, 2010. Stop by and see us at the Phil Long Center in Colorado Springs on Friday 4pm-7pm, Saturday 10am-7pm and Sunday 11am-4pm. Scottish Home Improvements will be there to answer any questions you have about siding, windows, and roofs.

Give your home a new look today. Come by and book an appointment at our show !

Dear Martin & Jim,

My husband and I are enormously pleased with the results of your work on our house, and also enjoyed dealing with you and with your employees and subcontractors. Without exception, every person I met who had any connection with Scottish was friendly, diligent and quick to respond to my needs or concerns. Moreover, the price you charged was eminently reasonable – I should know, because before signing up with Scottish, I solicited bids from about six other companies.

Scottish transformed our decrepit, Victorian style home into a “Painted Lady.” (That’s how San Franciscans refer to a really fancy Victorian house.) This transformation required the concerted efforts of highly skilled workers. You removed about 3650 square feet of damaged wood fiber siding as well as sizeable amounts of rotting wood trim and ugly soffit, and replaced everything with Hardie products. In addition, you did the detail work involved in restoring our dilapidated Victorian ornamentation. On top of that, you replaced a bad gutter and two decaying boards on a storage shed, fixed a sagging porch roof, and rebuilt an unstable garbage can enclosure.

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing you ever since late spring, when I began searching for “the right company” for my multifaceted, home improvement project. In the course of our relatively long association over this complex job, I’ve come to respect not only your competence, but also your integrity. I would enthusiastically recommend Scottish to my best friend.

Sincerely,

Joey Kadish