Although you should always try to find a paint color that s lighter than the vinyl siding itself.
What is a vinyl color.
You only need to avoid darker colors as these can cause the siding to absorb more heat.
Painting vinyl siding starts with choosing the color and the paint.
To turn this clear material into a solid color titanium dioxide and other additives are mixed in.
To make any other color dyes are used instead of black carbon.
Dark colors retain more heat and increase the chances of the paint flaking and the vinyl warping as it contracts and expands.
Other decisions are siding type like insulated or decorative size and orientation.
To make the standard black vinyl color black carbon is often added which strengthens the pvc mix.
Colorscapes from royal building products rbp.
7 signs your house needs.
You can select most colors and a significant number of them will go great on the siding of a house.
This is royal s answer to the demand for rich dark color fast vinyl siding colors by combining luran s asa basf s benchmark color fast engineering thermoplastic with royal s innovative royalside compound and dura technology process they created a product that provides industry leading uv resistance as well as excellent protection.
Blue and gray colors from the company s charter oak line of vinyl siding including ageless slate pictured above amounted to fifty percent of sales for 2019.
All vinyl records are made of pvc which is naturally colorless.