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   Piffin | May 07, 2007 05:00am | #1

   Is the designer from Eustolapadoria or someplace?

    

    

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   Piffin | May 07, 2007 05:56am | #2

   http://www.ebuild.com/search/articles.hwx/Q/qu.zinc+siding/tabNum.articles/x.7/y.8

    

    

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   MarkH | May 07, 2007 05:58am | #3

   Probably galvalume siding.

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   Piffin | May 07, 2007 06:12am | #4

   Yeah, could be a lot of things. Pure zinc siding doesn't exist and Zinc sheet metal can be had to make it custom for big dinero, but any time a designer wants to be specific about something he is supposed to be specific without being half azzed about it and specing something that doesn't exist. Pure zinc would be too weak to use the way it reads as clap pattern 

    

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   DanH | May 07, 2007 06:24am | #5

   Actually, zinc alloys could be used, but would be heavy and expensive.
   So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin

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   Piffin | May 07, 2007 06:29am | #6

   But the friggin designer did not spec zinc alloy, did he? 

    

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   1muff2muff | May 07, 2007 07:48am | #7

   allum,copper, whoops ,dropped my friggin muffin piffin, gettin zinc nottin, pullin over .wait for it.

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   1muff2muff | May 07, 2007 08:00am | #8

   Sorry, thought I read "pinc".

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   DanH | May 07, 2007 01:24pm | #9

   I've no idea what he speced. But any metal building material you use is an alloy of some sort.
   So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin

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   seeyou | May 07, 2007 02:15pm | #10

   What's copper an alloy of, Mr. Generalization?http://grantlogan.net/

6. 
   VaTom | May 07, 2007 02:32pm | #11

   C'mon, who'd use copper for siding?

    

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   DanH | May 07, 2007 04:51pm | #13

   Copper may be the exception, but I doubt it.
   So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin

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   jhausch | May 08, 2007 02:44am | #18

   Copper and Oxygen (and bird poop) ;-P

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   Danno | May 07, 2007 02:35pm | #12

   Like people who call tin-coated steel cans "tin", he probably means galvanized steel. But, when a person is specing something unusual, he should be sure to describe exactly what it is he wants!

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   Piffin | May 07, 2007 11:02pm | #14

   I know that
   And you know that
   and most professionals know that, but the designer is apparantly clueless.The OP should contact the designer directly annd lambast him 

    

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   Hiker | May 07, 2007 11:06pm | #15

   There is a company out of germany called Rheinzink (sp) that sells zinc or zinc coated shingles for walls and roofs.  I do not know their entire product line, but they are distributed in the US by UNA CLAD and the local ABC Supply may have access to them.  I would not be suprised to see material cost in the $10/sf range.

   Bruce

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   Piffin | May 08, 2007 12:02am | #16

   I came across them googling yesterday. Their siding is about 8" and not a clapboard pattern.But i'm sure they'd be delighted to take somebodies money to develope a new market.Adnittedly, I get pissed about somebody who pencils in words like this that don't really mean anything , but what I think is that he is using some generic local terminology to describe something other than what he is writing. A generic term is fine if it is commonly used and widely understood, but if somebody wants to spec a product, they need top learn how to spec it.Even with wood clapboards, there is #4 pre-primed finger jointed, all the way up to select clear red cedar... I don't know if I have even ever seen a drawing that speced "Wood siding" without being more specific. 

    

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   MOOPY | May 08, 2007 02:27am | #17

   Did you talk to your local rhienznik rep?
   You might try These guys, http://www.vmzinc-us.com/
   Or maybe even call ATAS, I think they have something that might work.
   Or call the archy and ask for clarification. They are using the vmzinc version on our couthouse and I know it is exspensive.

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   Hiker | May 08, 2007 03:37am | #19

   I hear you on the specification. Thinking about it a little more I wonder if unfinished aluminum siding would be an approved substitute.  I think the zinc siding has caught on with all the Gehry hype and the new Denver museum.  We looked at the copper version and decided not to spend the whole house budget on the siding.

   Bruce

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   DougU | May 08, 2007 04:30am | #20

   Bruce

   Heres an alternative for the copper sidding.

   Galvanized tin, this house is right off Redbud not to far from Bee Caves Rd.

   Doug

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   Hiker | May 08, 2007 04:55am | #21

   It looks cool Doug,  I just can't bring myself to doing that.  I love metal roofs, but I just do not like such large areas of metal.  It always reminds of a tin can with the wrapper removed.  It is being done so much around around here that it is no longer so unique.  I would appreciate it so much more if there was at least some texture to it.  I guess I have seen more than my share of aluminum siding that any metal besides copper does nothing for. 

   We actually went with a stucco with a bark texture that I hope to post up here in the photo section soon.

   How's Iowa?  Summer is starting here.  Only need to change my shirt once today.

   Bruce

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   DougU | May 08, 2007 06:38am | #22

   How's Iowa?

   Rainny, which means plenty of mosquitoes!

   On that house I showed they have a few walls inside with copper, same look just different metal.

   Doug