Q. When I bought my home, my home inspector said nothing about the exterior siding. Months later, a contractor pointed out that the siding boards have swelled, buckled and disintegrated in many places ...

A Mobile County circuit judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars in damages from Masonite Corp., alleging the company’s hardwood siding is inherently defective ...

The siding is on 100,000 Florida homes, mostly in communities south of Orlando. The state attorney general’s office is investigating complaints that Masonite siding, pulled from the Florida market ...

The builder’s 1-year warranty on their new houses had expired before Nancy Clawson or Debbie Colbert noticed that anything was wrong. But now, the wood around some of their windows is rotting.

I have heard there is a deadline approaching for participating in the "Masonite Hardboard Siding settlement." What can you tell us about this suit and settlement? -- R.P., Tulsa. The deadline is Jan.

Masonite Corp., South Florida’s dominant supplier of hardboard siding, will pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a West Palm Beach developer who claimed the siding was defective, both sides ...