Georgia
Buford is really two building eras in one city. Around Main Street and the old Bona Allen tannery you have early 1900s mill houses and Allen-era homes on wood clapboard with painted trim, while the corridors out toward the Mall of Georgia and Lake Lanier are packed with 1990s and 2000s subdivisions on hardboard, fiber cement and vinyl. Clapboard is the tell. It cups and moves with every wet spell, and a paint film only a few mils thick splits right along the laps. A ceramic coating at 10 to 12 mils minimum, about ten times the film thickness of house paint, spans those laps and stays put through the movement, which is the reason the 25-year warranty can be written at all and the reason it transfers with the house. The rest of the town gets the same benefit for a different reason: Gwinnett and Hall humidity, spring pollen and lake moisture near Clearwater Plantation and Parkside at Lanier Springs all shorten a paint job that would otherwise want redoing every four years.