Georgia
Between Sawnee Mountain and the western shore of Lake Lanier, Forsyth County homes deal with more moisture than the rest of the north metro. Morning fog off the water, shaded lots on the mountain side and red clay that holds damp against foundation walls all work on an exterior year round. The building stock skews newer here. Windermere, Vickery, Polo Golf and Country Club, Hampton Golf Village and Creekstone Estates went up from the mid 1990s onward on fiber cement and hardboard with stucco accents, brick water tables and painted wood trim. Fiber cement outlasts the paint on it by decades, which is the whole argument for coating it once and properly. Rhino Shield is ceramic, laid on at 10 to 12 mils at minimum, roughly nine times what rolls out of a paint can, and it holds through freeze and thaw without hairlining at the butt joints. Instead of another repaint inside five years, the 25-year warranty carries over to whoever buys next.