Why Permalife Inc. products are “Better than Wood”
Shown below are two photos of gable decorations. The one on the left is wood. It had been up for
two years at the time the photo was taken. It was installed and painted according to the manufactur-
ers instructions. As you can see, it is rotting cracking, and peeling. The one on the right had been up
for twelve years at the time this catalog was printed. They are actually both on the same house,
although on different gables. The owners installed Permalife Inc. gable decorations when the house
was remodeled. The Permalife Inc. gable decoration still has only the original factory finish on it. It
has required zero maintenance. We hear from dozens of people who have put wood trim on their
homes for various reasons. Some did not know that products like ours existed at the time they
installed their trim. Others thought that the wood product would be cheaper, and never considered
the long term cost of maintenance and/or replacement. Stillothers bought a house where an unin-
formed Builder used wood trim, and it was too late to do anything about it. The common thread with
all these homeowners is that they are now calling us to help them remedy their problem.
If you are now, or soon, considering building or remodeling, you owe it to yourself to at least
give our product a good look-see. This applies not only to gable decorations, but to any place that
you can avoid using wood trim. Door surrounds, window surrounds, and especially porch columns
and railings. There are few household maintenance items that are more labor intensive and time
consuming than scraping, repairing, and repainting these items.
If you are a Builder, you owe it to your customer to provide them with the most economical to
maintain dwelling that you are able to produce. I cringe when I see Builders using wood trim on any
structure or application that could be built using maintenance free products. I only hope that intelli-
gent consumers today know that they never have to settle for maintenance laden wood on the exte-
rior of any structure again.
There are some who believe that our trims are more expensive than wood trim. It may appear so
on the surface, but here are some facts to consider:
When you consider the labor involved in maintaining wood trim, if your time has any value, you
will see that the slight amount more that our trim might cost,in some cases, is easily overshadowed
in a very short amount of time. That is the difference between “cost” and “value”.
When most carpenters install wood trim, they are trying to get it up quick and move on to the
next job. It should look “ pretty good”, but hey, its just outside trim. On the contrary, when we
supply you with our products, you cannot help but see the difference in quality of construction.
When we make a pattern and/or mold for our products, we realize that hundreds or thousands of
parts will be produced. We literally spend days making sure every detail is just right, on the same
type of product that most carpenters can only afford to spend an hour or two on. Our louver vents are
an excellent example. Look at the detailing and notice that there are ZERO joints that could seperate
or let water in and cause them to rot. Compare this to anybody’s wood product.
I hope you’ve enjoyed perusing through our catalog. If you have further questions, please don’t
hesitate to call us. 1-800-376-6768
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