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Composite Product Overview: NuCedar Cladding, Part 3

Last updated on October 10, 2016 by Sozo Staff Leave a Comment

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NuCedar Mill might specialize in Shingles, but it certainly doesn’t stop there! These premium products are milled from strong cellular PVC and offer the rustic or traditional look of real Cedar but with a durable, yet environmentally friendly, spin.

Vertical Siding Options

Vertical Siding is definitely one of the most significant products offered by NuCedar Mills. It can be used as an accent or for cladding throughout the exterior of a home. The three styles, or exposures, help you tailor your siding to the architectural style you desire for your historic or rustic home. Whether you choose a Board & Batten, Channel Rustic, or Shiplap profile, your NuCedar siding will prove to be a low-maintenance, durable option.

Impervious to water and able to be run direct to grade without potential for decay, rotting, or any coating concerns, this siding is truly one of a kind. The interlocking features of Shiplap and Channel Rustic profiles utilize tongue-and-groove joinery for a water-tight installation that, along with the strength of cellular PVC, promotes durability over the lifetime of your home. With a warranty against peeling, cracking, or chipping, you really can’t go wrong.

Trim and Corner Boards

nucedar vertical siding rough sawn As part of NuCedar Mill’s complete line of cladding materials made from cellular PVC, the NuCedar trim line includes pre-made corner boards. Like NuCedar Vertical Siding, trim products come in your choice of Smooth, Woodgrain, or RoughSawn™ textures. They are also available in 20 colors that are hand-picked to complement traditional architecture. NuCedar trim comes in several standard widths, but custom sizes are also available. From fascias to casements, rakes and other accent pieces, NuCedar Mill can help mill any product that you need to clad the exterior of your home.

Mouldings and Specialty Items

nucedar moulding Now even the smallest, most ornate details that distinguish historical homes can be replicated in a durable way that requires little maintenance. T&G Beadboard, Beaded Sheet, and specialty Mouldings are available from NuCedar to meet your specifications. Yes, NuCedar can even make beadboard for use on a porch or soffit in order to help you achieve the finished touches on a historical reproduction.

In addition to NuCedar Mill’s full line of pre-finished accessories and mouldings, any historic reproduction design or creative new idea can be made to order. Like all NuCedar products, custom millwork comes with a 25-year transferable warranty that covers both the product and the finish.

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Finishing Touches

nucedar clapboard Thanks to Cortex Hidden Fastener Systems, your Trim and Cornerboards can provide easy installation and aesthetically pleasing design. These are available in the same texture and color as your NuCedar Trim and come in 5/8-inch, ¾-inch, and 1-inch thicknesses.

All NuCedar products are colored with a factory finish comprised of a water-based, urethane formula that utilizes ESR technology. Both durable and environmentally friendly, this finish replicates painted Cedar and provides a striking appearance that will last for years to come. The solar-reflective pigments help reduce transfer of heat from the sun, allowing you to keep energy costs low while your home remains cool, even if you choose a dark color and live in a warm climate.

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J. Gibson McIlvain Company

Since 1798, when Hugh McIlvain established a lumber business near Philadelphia, the McIlvain family has been immersed in the premium import and domestic lumber industry. With its headquarters located just outside of Baltimore, the J. Gibson McIlvain Company (www.mcilvain.com) is one of the largest U.S. importers of exotic woods.

As an active supporter of sustainable lumber practices, the J. Gibson McIlvain Company has provided fine lumber for notable projects throughout the world, including the White House, Capitol building, Supreme Court, and the Smithsonian museums.

Contact a representative at J. Gibson McIlvain today by calling (800) 638-9100.

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Composite Product Overview: NuCedar Cladding, Part 2

Last updated on October 10, 2016 by Sozo Staff Leave a Comment

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NuCedar products are definitely in a class all their own, when it comes to synthetics. As we mentioned previously, one major game-changing factor is that they are milled, rather than molded or poured. Available in 18 color options, 2 textures, and 3 unique exposures, all of which feature special solar-reflective coating that allows for decreased energy costs. Find out more of why J. Gibson McIlvain Lumber is breaking out from our usual wood-only product line to offer these unique new products.

Convenient Installation Assistance

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In addition to the Installation Guides, which are free for download from the NuCedar website, many NuCedar products are extremely easy to install, thanks to the company’s Universal Trim and Snap-In Insert™. These products allow you to create the same traditional look of butted cedar clapboard surrounding a home’s windows and doors as well as accentuating corners.

NuCedar Universal Trim includes a retainer and milled chalk line that simplifies expansion and contraction in clapboard runs of up to 48 feet. Along with the unique Snap-In Inserts™ (download PDF), the Universal Trim allows these unique PVC products to offer the same kind of traditional appearance of butted cedar. Vertical siding can also be easily installed, thanks to Cortex Hidden Fastener Systems, which come in the same textures and colors as NuCedar Vertical Siding.

Classic Cedar Shingles

nucedar shingles s quiver tan — 18 different shingle colors available

Cedar Shingles provide an aesthetic statement, with each uniquely colored shingle contributing to the overall effect. Like real cedar shingles, each NuCedar shingle is unique. Like all NuCedar products, NuCedar Shingles are milled in a sawmill, where they’re given the same kind of texture as natural wood. They’re finished with brushing patterns which produce unique coloring and shading on each shingle, allowing for an exterior effect reminiscent of a quilt or the variegated colors of farmland or forests. While the effect is arguably just as striking as natural cedar shingles, the longevity and low-maintenance quality of NuCedar Shingles surpasses that of real wood.

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Like NuCedar Vertical Siding, NuCedar Shingles are easy to install. NuCedar Shingles replicate many characteristics of traditional cedar shingles: they’re rebutted, precisely tapered, and resquared. They are made to accommodate 5-inch and 7-inch exposures.

Like craftsmen have done for centuries with painted cedar shingles, NuCedar Shingles can be installed artistically, with a Boston Weave on corners, contours above windows or doors.

When it comes to any roof — but especially those along mountain ridges or along the beach — the solar-reflective finish of NuCedar Shingles is important. While standard cladding materials can be damaged by UV rays, NuCedar Shingles will not absorb those rays, allowing them to protect your home for a longer period of time. NuCedar Shingles come in either 13-inch or 18-inch sizes.

While NuCedar Shingles are arguably the cornerstone products made by NuCedar Mills, many other products round out their offerings. We’ll survey them in our next post.

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J. Gibson McIlvain Company

Contact a representative at J. Gibson McIlvain today by calling (800) 638-9100.

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Product Overview: NuCedar Cladding

Last updated on September 19, 2016 by Sozo Staff Leave a Comment

J. Gibson McIlvain now carries a product that is not made from real wood. As featured on DIY’s show “This New House” with Amy Matthews and Kevin O’Connor (see video below), NuCedar products provide an option that’s both environmentally friendly and well made. One main difference between NuCedar siding, trim, and shingles and other leading composites is that NuCedar products are actually milled, just like lumber is.

Because you can order pre-finished products, offering NuCedar can help your customer save money while you save valuable time and effort in coordinating multiple brands or extra subcontractors. We think you’ll find these cladding products from NuCedar Mills to be similar to real wood in both their beauty and their durability.

A Peek at the NuCedar Sawmill

NuCedar products are not stamped or molded, like most synthetic cladding materials; instead, they’re milled, just like wood. Unlike wood, though, NuCedar products never rot. Unlike competitors’ products, these milled products display the same kinds of precise lines and textures achieved in wood when it is milled. Like anyone who’s familiar with saw mills knows, carefully adjusted machines and freshly sharpened blades are keys to creating quality millwork. At NuCedar Mills, they believe in taking the steps necessary to achieve premium results. All NuCedar exterior cladding products are milled from Ex-Cel® cellular PVC.

From Clapboard and Vertical Siding, to Shingles, Trim, Mouldings, and a variety of accessories, NuCedar makes products in a wide range of textures and colors. Since their products are not simply painted on the surface but dyed throughout with a solar-reflective coating, the company backs their products with a 25-year transferable warranty.

NuCedar Appearance Options

NuCedar exterior cladding products are available in a variety of colors and textures. Colors include mostly neutral tones, along with a few more distinctive hues often used in traditional styles. Super White, Antique White, and Ancient Marble are all in the white family. Then there’s the tan family, consisting of Wool Skein, Basket Beige, and Quiver Tan. Grays include Worldly Gray, Svelte Sage, Willow Tree, and Argos. Shades of blue range from Bracing Blue to Open Air and Aleutian Air. Hints of green can be seen in Relaxed Khaki and Coastal Plain. Rounding out the color options for siding are Convivial Yellow and Cedar. Two additional colors are available for trim and cornerboards: Wineberry and Anderson Green.

In addition to color, you can also choose from two textures that you can both see and feel: Smooth and RoughSawn™. Three different exposures offer even more variation. The first, Board & Batten, allows for a rustic look with alternating wide boards and narrow battens. The second, Channel Rustic, includes a ½-inch overlap and 1-inch channel. The third exposure type, Shiplap, hints at traditional ship-building techniques and includes a ½-inch overlap which creates a flush joint.

In a future post, we’ll take a look at the different types of cladding and accessories that NuCedar offers.

J. Gibson McIlvain Company

Contact a representative at J. Gibson McIlvain today by calling (800) 638-9100.

A New Direction for a Lumber Company: NuCedar Exterior Products

Last updated on December 9, 2014 by Sozo Staff Leave a Comment

With issues like availability, sustainability, and climbing prices constantly changing the landscape of the lumber industry, we realize that many of our customers want to explore manufactured alternatives to natural wood. While real wood is truly the ultimate green building material, J. Gibson McIlvain has proven to be open minded about the potential benefits of manufactured building materials. At the same time, we’ve generally seen major problems with both quality and environmental factors surrounding composite buying materials.

While it might seem that our reasons for opposing these newer manufactured wood alternatives are sinister, keep this in mind: We could easily expand our business to include them, if we so desire. Until recently, however, we have decided not to do so, in favor of sticking to our longstanding commitment to traditional principles of quality and responsibility. After careful testing and research, we have decided to offer our first non-lumber building product line: NuCedar.

Environmental Concerns

One of the chief concerns over using manufactured building materials instead of naturally occurring ones is environmental. Lumber, after all, is sustainable and completely biodegradable. While NuCedar products aren’t quite as green as what occurs naturally, they are quite distinct from other products on the market.

Composed entirely of PVC, NuCedar products are completely recyclable. Without the fear of their taking up landfill space for centuries, we thought they were worth a second look.

The longevity of these materials tops those of most other manufactured building materials, further lessening their environmental impact. In fact, NuCedar products actually qualify for coveted LEED design values. Providing a green alternative to wood siding, moulding, trim, and shingles, NuCedar products are worthy of consideration.

Maintenance Issues

The durability of a product is understandably a major issue to most customers. Most composite materials are inferior to real wood, in this regard. However, NuCedar products undergo a finishing process similar to automotive finishing that stands the test of time. NuCedar stands behind its claim to durability by offering a 25-year transferable warranty.

Appearance Concerns

In addition to their environmental impact and lack of durability, many manufactured building products fail to make the grade when it comes to their appearance. Unlike other products that are produced using molds, NuCedar products are milled, just like lumber is. As a result, they appear more similar to wood.

At the same time, NuCedar offers something which wood does not: 18 color options and pre-finishing that mimics a fresh paint job. Other options include rough-sawn or smooth textures for both siding and shingles.

Streamlined Process

Thanks to the pre-finished nature of NuCedar products, contractors and homeowners can benefit by needing fewer subcontractors and less time and money involved in a project. Without painting and staining (or re-painting and re-staining) needed, the simplicity and savings provide added value.

While offering NuCedar definitely means a shift from our usual method of operation, J. Gibson McIlvain Lumber is pleased to offer our customers these cutting-edge exterior products from NuCedar Mills.

J. Gibson McIlvain Company

Contact a representative at J. Gibson McIlvain today by calling (800) 638-9100.