Georgia
Railroads and textile mills built Griffin, and you can read that history in its exteriors. North Hill Street and the blocks around the downtown historic district carry mid-1800s Greek Revival and late Victorian houses with wood siding and heavy ornamental trim. The mill village streets are small frame cottages. Postwar neighborhoods are brick ranches with painted eaves, soffits and trim, and on the northeast side Sun City Peachtree and the newer subdivisions run to fiber cement and vinyl. All of it sits on Piedmont red clay forty miles below Atlanta and takes the metro's beating: spring pollen, hard UV, humid summers, and freeze-thaw swings that split caulk joints and mortar. A ceramic coating is a different answer to that than another gallon of paint. Rhino Shield goes on at a 10 to 12 mil build, many times over what a brush leaves on the wall, thick enough to bridge the movement instead of cracking along it. Nothing chips off the mill cottages, nothing peels off the ranch trim, and the 25-year warranty passes to the next owner.