Aluminum siding was sold as the siding you never paint. Decades of Gulf sun and salt air say otherwise. The factory finish oxidizes into a dull, chalky film that rubs off on your hand, and corrosion works fastest exactly where we live: warm, wet, and salty. Once the finish is gone, the metal itself starts pitting.
The chalky oxidation layer on old aluminum siding is the enemy of every paint job. Roll paint straight over it and the paint bonds to the chalk, not the metal, and sheets off within a couple of seasons. Meanwhile salt air keeps working underneath. Most failed metal siding paint jobs in this area failed on day one, at prep.
My crew treats metal siding as its own discipline: the oxidation gets cleaned and prepped off, an adhesion primer made for metal goes down first, and then the Climate Proof Ceramic Coating seals the surface against the salt air that drives coastal corrosion. The finish resists chalking and fading through Gulf UV, and the system carries the 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty.
One system defends the three things that matter most about your home.
A sealed metal skin sheds rain and salt instead of pitting, and stays bonded because the prep reached bare, sound metal first.
No more chalk rubbing off on hands, clothes, and everything that touches the house, and no corroding panels working loose in storms.
Aluminum siding in good coat is a durability story buyers like. A documented 25 year transferable warranty on its finish makes it a closing asset instead of a line item on an inspection report.
Kevin Mmahat, Exterior Home Protection Consultant
When you book your free Home Protection Consultation, I come out myself. I do not give estimates. I give diagnoses. On metal siding I check how deep the oxidation runs, where pitting has started, which panels are damaged or loose, and where trim and fasteners are streaking rust. Then I tell you what the metal needs, in writing, before anything begins.
Oxidized metal, brought back and sealed.
The questions homeowners ask before they book.
From postwar aluminum in Old Metairie to metal-sided camps down the bayou, we stop the chalk-and-pit cycle salt air runs on this metal.
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