Corrugated Metal Siding
Corrugated metal siding has become very popular among the people that are looking for something special that will provide their homes a unique look and a real protection for the walls against various elements.
Since the invention of metal panels back in the 19th century, corrugated metal siding has appeared as a choice for residential and commercial buildings only in the past two decades. Until this period of time, corrugated metal siding was used especially in the industrial and agricultural buildings and structures. They were made out of wrought iron panels at first and were perfect to replace the wooden panels that needed constant maintenance, expensive purchasing costs and had to be replaced from time to time. The metal panels were used especially to build fences around farms, industrial yards and construction sites. Then they were used for roofing and also to act as walls inside the mentioned locations.
The armies got found of this material and in short time they were the most important customer of this industry. We can even say that armies engineering and designing helped the metal panel industry survive through the first half of the 20th century, when the demand of metal panels encountered a huge drop.
However, in the second half of the last century, new architectural trends, new improvements to materials used in the metal industries and the constant increase of residential house building of people that wanted something different that a neighbour has, made corrugated metal siding popular. It initially started to be applied to commercial buildings, to give them a specific look, to have low purchasing costs, as well as maintenance costs. Step by step, year by year, corrugated metal siding easily became the leading choice of clients all over the world, that wanted to use it on so many various locations and on as many projects.
You can encounter buildings using corrugated metal siding in the middle of the biggest city in a country, as well as in the most distant village from the same country. You have buildings with corrugated metal siding at the beach side in a tropical location and also you meet the same siding material on the weather stations build at the South Pole. There is almost no limit for the use of corrugated metal siding, especially because the metal panels can now be shaped, chemically treated and painted to fit in every project.
The constant attention given to corrugated metal siding by so many architects world wide made producing companies of materials used for the process to call this siding “architectural siding”.
The two most encountered metals used in corrugated metal siding are steel -it has a high rate of resistance to over-aging and corrosion, but remains prone to the rusting process- and aluminium -its characteristics, such as malleability, light-weighted, inexpensive installation and maintenance costs puts it in front of steel. Because corrugated metal siding is made out of metal panels covered with alloys of zinc and coated with powder paint, the endurance, strength and reliability increased considerable.