Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Choosing Colors

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Philip Proefrock  psp [at] cornellbox.com
is the author of the message below. 
It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 

Since this message to be rejected it gave me the opportucinty to restore
the subject (was: "Digest") and I edited the format a bit.  Fred

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I was assuming that there was no quality difference between the
pre-painted and the field painted, and that either one would need to be
repainted after the same period of time.  Because the material is
pre-primed on all sides, it should perform similarly well in either case. 

I also was assuming that there would be other materials that needed to be
painted as well, so the painter could not be completely omitted from the
labor list in either case.  If the siding is the only thing that needs to
be painted, then it may be possible that the pre-finished material would
be more cost effective than having a painter paint it after installation. 

However, I believe that the pre-finishing is something that is done at di
fferent regional plants, so other experience may be different.  Also,
there may be quantity advantages available to larger projects that would
help make pre-finishing more reasonable. 

Philip Proefrock

Luckenbach|Ziegelman Architects
Ann Arbor, MI



>    1. Re: Re: Choosing Colors (Chris ScottHanson)

> From: Chris ScottHanson <chris [at] cohousingresources.com>
> Have you considered the payback period, the time when the higher priced=
> pre-painted material has paid for itself by avoiding the repainting=20
> process?  Is it perhaps 10 years, or 15 years.  Does anyone know?
> Chris