Sometime back in the middle 90’s I was setting up our home show booth and I noticed a piece of vinyl siding being suspended from the ceiling of the exhibit hall and naturally I was interested in it because it was 60 foot long and my brain said no seams, would that be great.

As the show opened I went to the booth and introduced myself and asked what was up with the long vinyl siding, the manufacturer’s representative said he was working the show and they were looking for a dealer’s in Iowa and explained, we are trying something different in the vinyl siding industry, we are getting ready to put into production seamless vinyl siding.

I said great I have a 70 foot ranch style home that was considering seamless steel siding but really didn’t like the paint finish on that product and since it is seamless how would I go about getting the specifications and cost on the product? He explained to me that it could be produced up to 40 foot long and they ship to our facility and we would need to ship to job site. My response was, so then it is really not seamless is it, he said maybe we should call it virtually seamless vinyl siding then.

That was over 20 years ago and still today there is only one manufacturer of so called seamless vinyl siding and after doing some research and inspecting some local jobs in the Des Moines, Iowa market. The product needs to use extra wide J-Channel around all of the windows and doors to hide the expansion reveals, only come in 16’8” or 29 ‘ panels with no fade protection warranty.

As much as I would love to see seamless siding or any type there is a reason even wood siding is cut to standard lengths. All material needs room for expansion and contraction. Metal siding has very little expansion and contraction and vinyl siding can expand and contract as much as 3/8 to ½ inch on a standard vinyl panel. When our great state of Iowa builds concrete hiways, driveway or sidewalk is poured; they cut expansion joints into that material to allow for expansion and contraction.

So if seamless vinyl siding was the best for your home Midwest Construction, Iowa Home Improvement Leaders would have secured the rights to sell and market the product years ago.