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what a joke

I have heard horror stories about all those companies that offer the "miracle" product like liquid siding, etc. We had one of 'em contact us and asked if we were interested in meeting with them about becoming one of their contractors. Never really investigated the company because several ppl told us their product was a joke. One new home we turned a bid in on decided to go with the "liquid siding" for the exterior. Their price was half what ours was. Woudn't you think that that stuff would cost more than regular exterior paint?
 

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I don't know. I just know that the house was fairly large (6000-7000 sq. ft.), very cut-up on the exterior, high gables, etc. and we were told they were doing liquid siding on the whole outside for $7000. No way we could compete with that! Obviously it was all hardiplank siding.
 

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I just reunited with my father after talking to him he started to explain how he got his ext. house refinished by the TexCoat system. He started to tell me how mad he was he spent 4 grand getting it done and 6 grand getting scraped and repainted because it was pealing like crazy. When he called the contractor who applied it, he never got a return call. He then called the TexCoat office and they reimbursed him 15 gals of TexCoat.
 

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Sorry for my ignorance, I have never heard of this company down here. When I heard the term "liquid siding" in this thread I thought is was some type of cladding system or something. But it is paint right?

Is it an acrylic membrane system or something? If it is then why would it be cracking and fading? It seems to me that when you get cracking AND fading you have a problem with the binder AND the pigment of the paint.

Any way I have not Googled it yet so I probably should have done that before responding to this thread.

I am always interested in new coating technologies, sometimes new things have problems at the start, are the problems coating failure or applicator error?

Do painters apply this stuff or is it only dealer certified applicators?
 

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It is applied by illegal alien subcontractors here in the South. Companies like this come and go every once in a while. They show up spend tons on advertising, and within three or four years they are gone.

Customers are stuck with thick mil sprayed coatings on the exterior of their homes that are failing. A large local church I bid on got caught up with them, and less than five years after coating they had to do a very expensive full strip and new paint.
 
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