There are over 100 different shapes styles and textures of hardboard and osb siding manufactured by 11 different companies.
Osb siding lawsuit.
You may also take a piece of your siding to your local building supply store which may be able to assist you.
If you watch modern houses being constructed nearly all of the wall sheathing sub floor and roof decking is done using osb.
25 years after installation of siding installed between may 15 1975 and may 15 2000.
The lawsuit also does not concern oriented strand board osb siding.
It was plagued with rot and swelling and once that process.
Over 500 million has been paid out to customers regarding this suit.
Foremost among these were lawsuits pertaining to its simulated cedar inner seal exterior siding.
Louisiana pacific used this osb material and formed it into siding panels and lap siding with an embossed covering meant to look like the natural grain in real wood.
How to identify masonite siding masonite siding is typically identified by a stamp of the name masonite and or the number x 90 on the siding itself.
Measure the thickness and compare the measurement to siding that is weather protected for instance under an eave or in a porch.
Timeframe for claim filing.
I have seen measurements at lower courses that exceed one inch.
If it s the failing lp you will usually see swelling and or delaminating.
Many of these manufacturers have settled house siding lawsuits since 1995.
The siding should measure approximately one half inch.
Osb is widely used today as a substitute for plywood.
District judge robert e.
It s too late to be part of the class action suit between 1985 and 1995 800 000 homes were sided with a louisiana pacific lp product called inner seal that sparked one of the largest class action lawsuits in history after the siding began to fail.
During the 1990s lp was the defendant in a major class action lawsuit over its osb siding product known as inner seal manufactured from the early 1990s through 1996.
Lp had just gone through the fiasco of their earlier oriented strand board osb siding product inner seal which had major problems.
A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit concerning a siding product known as cladwood.
Abitibi price hardboard siding sold under the names abitibi lap or panel siding and or abtco lap or panel siding.