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