Versatex Cellular PVC Trim and Sheet -- Not Just for Exterior Applications Any MoreFinish Contractors are Finding New Places to Substitute Versatex Trim for Both Interior and Exterior Applications -- Where Wood is Just Not Making the Cut

April, 2009 -- Early adopters like Jim Montgomery from Lettieri Construction in Westhampton Beach, NY, got on the cellular PVC bandwagon years ago. He saw the true advantage of PVC over wood, and started switching to PVC on windows, doors and corners, then graduated to soffits, fascias and more sophisticated uses where weather would just plain ruin wood.

That led our contractor to another discovery — to try Versatex inside the home, in places where poplar and maple were suffering from exposure to moisture of all sorts. Now, Jim uses Versatex in virtually every portion of the house. Inside and outside. He has a couple of new home projects where anything on the house exterior that is painted, (other than a set of mahogany exterior doors), is made of Versatex PVC product. All the obvious exterior features are made of Versatex — columns, window trim, corners, soffit and fascia, railing and balusters. But Montgomery also used Versatex for all sorts of new and unusual applications: window boxes, posts, surrounds for masking trash receptacles – he even created new window and doorjambs, replacing the ones supplied by the manufacturers.

Versatex's Cellular PVC Trim

Inside the home, Montgomery discovered more places to try Versatex—shoe moulding in bathrooms, for shower enclosures, laundry rooms, and other places where moisture ruins wood. He also used Versatex inside for radius walls, enclosures, and inside window casings. For a deluxe custom finish, Lettieri paints 100% of the product, using latex primer and latex finish coatings.

Montgomery realizes that some customers have the idea that for high-end homes, the only trim material that should be used is painted wood. He brings new homeowner prospects to his construction sites to show Versatex PVC trim and sheet and how it looks and works in the real world, and they cannot believe it is 'vinyl'. "You have to see the product in place, then you will be a believer like me."

Versatex is manufactured by Wolfpac Technologies in Pittsburgh, Pa. The company operates a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which produces cellular PVC extrusion products, such as Versatex trimboards, sheet, mouldings and prefabricated corners. Visit the website at www.versatex.com.