Make the Right Call: Trespa Pura vs. Wood Composite Siding for Your High-End Project

You're an architect, designer, or homeowner building a high-end home. You know siding choice is a critical decision. Curb appeal is important but it's about lasting value and performance. You've seen the composite wood options, but you're wondering if they truly deliver the luxurious wood look you need. Trespa Pura Siding offers distinct advantages you need to consider.

Pura NFC by Trespa Classic Oak Wood Décor rainscreen siding on an exterior walls, porch ceiling and soffits.

Summary: This blog compares composite wood siding to Trespa Pura NFC siding for high-end homes. Composite wood is a lower investment but looks less like real wood and requires painting. Trespa Pura, a high-pressure laminate, offers a realistic, consistent wood look with superior durability, fade resistance, and low maintenance (no refinishing). While pricier upfront, Trespa Pura provides better long-term value, design flexibility, and a higher ROI. It's the recommended choice for a luxurious, lasting finish.

In this article: 

• What is Composite wood siding?

• What is Trespa Pura siding?

• Performance and Key Benefits

• Design Flexibility

   

First, let's define the materials and type of sidings so you can compare:

What is Composite wood siding?

Sometimes called "engineered wood siding", composite wood siding is made from a combination of wood strands or fibers bonded with resins or plastics. The siding is then treated with zinc borate to create a durable, weather resistant surface. It comes primed to stain or paint yourself, or prefinished with painted colors. 

This differs from non-wood composites like fiber cement. Fiber cement contains no wood materials and is mainly composed of Portland cement, sand and cellulose.

Composite Wood Siding does not look like real wood, but can be primed and painted to look like a painted wood siding.

Composite wood siding detail, painted, photo courtesy of @structuretech.com

Pura NFC Classic Oak Wood Décor Rainscreen Siding

What is Trespa Pura siding?

Pura NFC by Trespa is a High Pressure Laminate (HPL) siding. Pura Wood Decors are composed of approximately 70% wood fiber and thermo-setting resins. Using high pressure and heat, these materials are compressed into an incredibly durable siding plank.

Trespa then treats the surface with a proprietary Electron Beam Curing (EBC) process, creating a bonded exterior that is exceptionally damage, rot, and fade resistant. 

Pura NFC Wood Decors are known for their realistic wood-look siding colors in natural wood tones or transparent stained color look. They are very low maintenance and consistent in color. 

New construction residence chose Trespa Pura siding wood décor in Aged Ash

Why Trespa Pura Stands Out:

Real wood siding, like Western Red Cedar, is beautiful and offers a range of natural colors, but can be high maintenance. Your project calls for consistency and durability.

That's where Trespa Pura NFC shines. Unlike painted composite wood, Pura NFC gives you a consistent, stained wood look without the variations of natural wood, and never needs refinishing.

This detail of Pura Romantic Walnut installed with black trim proves the consistency of the color

Performance You Can Trust:

Trespa Pura NFC is a high-pressure laminate. This means it's built to last. It resists weather, UV, and scratches, and high impacts. Pura NFC siding has been tested to resist bending, cracking, and coming loose in hurricane force winds (and higher).

This beautiful residence on the shore chose Pura Mystic Cedar to combat storm damage and salt air. 

Key Benefits for Your Project:

• Authentic Wood Look Siding: Get the consistent wood tone you want, with high fade resistance for lasting curb appeal.
  
  
• Color That Lasts: EBC surface treatment means your colors stay vibrant and resist scratching from tree branches and everyday wear and tear. 
  
  
• Tough Damage Resistance: Proven to resist dents or cracks from hail, storm debris, baseballs, and other high impacts.
  
  
• Fire Safety: Class A fire rating meets building codes in most areas and offers peace of mind.
  
  
• Easy Upkeep: Simple cleaning keeps it looking beautiful, just soap and water. No special cleaners!

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Your Investment, Your Return:

Yes, Trespa Pura costs more upfront. But consider the long-term value: Your homeowner avoids refinishing and gets reduced maintenance cost, you get fewer callbacks. That's a better return on your investment and a high ROI at the end of the long Pura NFC lifecycle.

Trespa Pura mixed décor façade uses multiple colors in random lengths to achieve this look

Design Flexibility:

Pura Mystic Cedar and Siberian Larch installed together as vertical rainscreen siding

Need options? Trespa Pura works horizontally or vertically, and you can mix and match all of their colors.

For even more flexibility, use the Climate-Shield CST1 Rainscreen system. This lets you mix and match horizonal, vertical, even diagonal installation and add the look of wood soffits.

The Climate-Shield CST1 Rainscreen system from Mataverde makes Trespa Pura siding installation faster and more efficient

Make the Smart Choice:

For high-end projects, Trespa Pura NFC is the clear winner. You get the look, the durability, and the value you need. Don't settle for less.