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More Evidence Supporting The Young-Earth Theory of Earth's Magnetic Field
Posted by jlwile on September 24, 2010
One of my "top five" reasons for thinking that the earth is only thousands of years old comes from studying its magnetic field. As I wrote in the post I just linked, the young-earth theory of earth's magnetic field (often called the 'rapid-decay theory') not only properly reproduces the magnetic fields of the planets, it actually predicted two of those magnetic fields before they were measured. When a theory can make predictions regarding unmeasured quantities and the subsequent measurements agree with the theory, there is strong evidence that the theory is true.
The young-earth theory of earth's magnetic field not only correctly predicted the magnetic fields of two planets before they were measured, it has made other predictions that were later confirmed by measurement. As discussed in the previous post, it predicted that rocks from Mars should show that Mars at one time had a planetary magnetic field, even though it does not have one today. That was later confirmed. In addition, it predicted that Mercury's magnetic field has decreased since it was last measured in 1975. MESSENGER, the latest spacecraft to visit Mercury, did a "quick and dirty" measurement of Mercury's magnetic field in 2008, and the measurement confirmed this prediction, albeit with very large error bars. I eagerly await MESSENGER'S more precise measurement to see exactly how close the young-earth theory's prediction is to the precisely-measured value.
In the meantime, some geologists have come up with even more evidence for the validity of the young-earth theory of earth's magnetic field.
One of the expectations of the young-earth theory is that the earth's magnetic field reversed rapidly (probably several times) during the worldwide Flood.1 During these rapid reversals, the north pole of earth's magnetic field became the south pole, and vice-versa. The old-earth theory of earth's magnetic field also predicts that the field has reversed in the past, but it predicts that these reversals occur over a period of several thousands of years.
Five years after the young-earth theory was published, the first evidence for rapid reversals of earth's magnetic field was discovered.2 The authors of the study were examining lava flows, which "record" the direction of earth's magnetic field when the lava cooled based on the orientation of magnetic crystals in the rock. The authors noted that in a particular series of lava flows, the earth's magnetic field seemed to have reversed over a period of days, not thousands of years.
Not surprisingly, most geologists resisted this notion, since old-earth geologists tend to prefer believing in slow, gradual change. However, the same authors produced a paper six years later that provided even more evidence to support their analysis.3 Despite the new evidence, most geologists would like to ignore these data, as rapid magnetic field reversals are not consistent with the old-earth theory of earth's magnetic field. Of course, young-earth geologists see the data as yet another confirmation of the young-earth theory of earth's magnetic field.
Well, recently the idea of rapid magnetic field reversals has become harder to ignore, because a paper that is slated for publication in Geophysical Research Letters claims to have found another example of a rapid magnetic field reversal.4 This comes from a different lava flow entirely. According to the analysis, the change is not as rapid as is indicated by the previous studies. Instead of reversing over a period of days, this lava flow indicates a reversal took place over a period of years.
Now the young-earth theory does not predict that "slow" a reversal. Instead, it predicts that the earth's magnetic field probably reversed several times during the world-wide Flood. Nevertheless, all three of these studies are much more in line with the predictions of the young-earth theory than the old-earth theory.
Of course, don't expect old-earth geologists to be persuaded by these data. After all, old-earth geologists have lots of preconceptions that will most likely force them to assume there is something wrong with all three of these studies. However, those of us who are free to follow the data can accept the studies for what they appear to be: evidence in favor of the young-earth theory of planetary magnetic fields.
1. D. Russell Humphreys, "The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields," CRSQ 21, 1984 (Available online)
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2. Coe, R.S. and Prevot, M., "Evidence Suggesting Extremely Rapid Field Variation During a Geomagnetic Reversal," Earth and Planetary Science 92:292-298, 1989
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3. Coe, R.S., Prevot, M., and Camps, P., "New Evidence for Extremely Rapid Change of the Geomagnetic Field During a Reversal," Nature 374:687-692, 1995
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4. Bogue, S. W., and J. M. G. Glen, "Very rapid geomagnetic field change recorded by the partial remagnetization of a lava flow," Geophys. Res. Lett., in press, 2010 (Available online with subscription)
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23 Responses to "More Evidence Supporting The Young-Earth Theory of Earth's Magnetic Field"-
Dr. Wile:
I would like to make a few comments regarding Earth's magnetic field, and why the study of it does not provide evidence for a young Earth:
1. The geological evidence does not point to a decaying geomagnetic field, but rather to a fluctuating field. The argument that Earth's geomagnetic field is decaying exponentially and would have been dangerously high in the past if Earth were millions of years old is not nearly as strong as many YECs make it out to be; in fact I would say that it is completely invalid. YECs show plots of measurements of the magnetic moment of Earth's magnetic field since the early 1800s, then fit an exponential curve to those points, and then extrapolate that curve into the past. The conventional geological interpretation of this "decay" is that the strength (I'm not referring to north-south polarity) of the magnetic field varies over time, in some sort of approximately sinusoidal pattern. We can discern which of these two interpretations is correct by looking for residual magnetism in archeological sites (for recent events) and in the geological record for the longer term record. The field evidence clearly supports the fluctuating model. Because of this, the strength of Earth's magnetic field is absolutely not an evidence for a young Earth.
While many YECs now acknowledge that the polarity (north or south) of Earth's magnetic field can reverse, they still hold on stubbornly to the idea that it is decaying over time. For a graph of values of Earth's magnetic moment over the past few hundred thousand years see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brunhes_geomagnetism_western_US.png . What we see for the past 200 years is just a tiny fragment of this longer trend.
2. The number of reversals of Earth's magnetic field in the past is large (see the graphics on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal ), and difficult to reconcile with events that spread over a year (the flood) or even a few centuries, as in the post-flood residual catastrophism that many YEC geologists now advocate. Most measurements of geomagnetism have been made in igneous rocks, such as lava flows. The orientation of magnetic grains in the lava flows is frozen into place when the flow crystallizes, which is a process that takes time. If the magnetic field were fluctuating as rapidly as YECs say it was during the flood, almost all lava flows produced during the flood should contain records of multiple reversals as different parts of the flow crystallized. The reality is that a vast majority of flows are either normal or reversed polarity. The measured rapidity of geomagnetic reversals doesn't really help the YEC case; in fact it is evidence against it.
3. I don't put much weight on the predictive value of Humphrey's theory. Comparing the geomagnetic fields of terrestrial planets to that of gas giants is like comparing apples and oranges. The magnetic fields of terrestrial planets is related to their iron cores. The magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn are probably related to liquid metallic hydrogen deep in their interiors. The fields of Uranus and Neptune, though very poorly understood, could be formed by ionic currents (perhaps ammonium ions) in their interiors. If so, these gas giant magnetic fields are not residual, as Humphreys advocates, but sustained.
In summary, I think that YECs greatly overstate their "Earth's magnetic field proves the Earth is young" case.
Grace and Peace,
Kevin Nelstead -
Can you explain how magnetic reversals are part of the model for magnetic field decay, or at least give me a nudge in the right direction. After all from my perspective the sequence starting 100, -90, and 81 doesn't look much like a continual decay!
Your link in Creationist Research works from the assumption that the earth was created out of pure H2O, which surely ought to cast a good deal of doubt upon the results. Wouldn't the nuclear energies involved in changing from from Hydrogen and Oxygen to the many elements and isotopes we have today invalidate any magnetic field results instantly?
Dr Wile:
I think you are being overly selective in what you admit as evidence for the decay of Earth's magnetic field. You accept the direct measurements of the intensity of Earth's magnetic field since the early 1800s, but reject paleointensity measurements from archeological and geological studies which consistently show a variable geomagnetic intensity throughout the Holocene, rather than an exponential decay. If one does an image search on the internet for "geomagnetic paleointensity" they will quickly find a number of graphs depicting values of Earth's dipole moment over the past few thousand years. A good test of Humphreys' theory is how well it matches real-world values, and in this case it fails.
No matter how Earth's magnetic field is generated (not all geophysicists are satisfied with the dynamo model as it now stands), the super-rapid reversal scenario of "flood geology" simply doesn't match what is observed in rocks in the field. We have a fairly continuous record of geomagnetic reversals written in the basalt on the sea floor. This record doesn't contain "several reversals" but hundreds. If most of these occurred during the flood year, then they must have occurred at a frequency of around once every day or every few days.
Think about massive lava flows, such as the Steens Mountain basalts (where the rapid changes in geomagnetism associated with a reversal have been measured) and the related Columbia River basalts. The combined volume of these two basalt groups in Oregon and Washington is in the 200,000 cubic kilometer range! This didn't all come out of the interior of Earth at once, but as individual flows, some of which were over 100 meters in thickness and covered tens of thousands of square kilometers. Almost all of these flows are either completely normal polarity or completely reverse; the Steens Mountain flows that show a snapshot of a reversal occurring are certainly the exception rather than the rule.
Lava flows don't crystallize overnight. A modern analog would be the Kilauea Iki eruption on Hawaii in 1959. Basaltic lava from this eruption pooled in the crater to a depth of over 100 meters, and didn't crystallize completely until around 1995. That's 36 years later. Now think about the flows in the Steens Mountain or Columbia River basalts. If these came out at a time when reversals were occurring on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly basis, the rocks should contain a record of numerous reversals at best, or complete geomagnetic chaos at worst. As it is, they are almost all either purely normal or purely reversed in polarity.
My conclusion is that the rapid, short-duration geomagnetic reversals found in some lava flows and advocated by the Humphreys' model never occurred. Field and laboratory evidence show us that almost all of these basalts erupted, flowed, and crystallized in times of stable geomagnetic polarity.
My final paragraph needs a little re-wording:
My conclusion is that the rapid, short-duration geomagnetic reversals advocated by the Humphreys never occurred. Field and laboratory evidence show us that almost all of these basalts erupted, flowed, and crystallized during lengthy times of stable geomagnetic polarity. Flows that record a portion of a geomagnetic reversal are very rare.
This is off subject, but you mentioned that Answers in Genesis had "theology leaves a lot to be desired". What do you mean by that or what examples do you have that you don't agree with?
Just curious.
jwilie, I think you are missing some of what Kevin N is saying.
For example, the lava flows he mentions – as he said, the vast majority of them show a normal or reverse magnetic orientation meaning the cooled down while the magnetic field was consistently pointing a certain direction, and only only a few of them showing a reversal in action, meaning they cooled down while a reversal was happening.
However, all those flows would have happened during the Flood (in a relatively short time – a few months) and according to the Flood view of polarity reversals, there were hundreds of reversals going on during the Flood, roughly every day a reversal happened.
And yet, only a very few of those lava flows show a reversal in action, while the vast majority of them show the field fully set one direction or another. If the magnetic field really were reversing every day or every other day, the vast majority of the flows would show reversals happening, or magnetic confusion from several reversals happening while the lava cooled, but that's not what is seen.
Dr. Wile:
I think I understand what the YEC geologists are trying to say: lots of lava flows, most of which just happen to crystallize entirely within week-long periods of geomagnetic stability. However, thick lava flows don't crystallize quickly enough for this to work, and the model suffers from a critical shortcoming of most of YEC geology: too many events, too little time.
Thin lava flows observed at volcanoes typically take days or weeks to completely crystallize. The only way to crystallize the lava more quickly is to have it flow into water, but that completely changes the texture of the rock and the overall character of the flow.
The basalt lava flows we are discussing here, however, are quite thick—mostly in the tens of meters—and did not cool and crystallize in just a week. This was my point when I discussed the Kilauea Iki lava lake, which had similar thickness to the larger flows and took decades to crystallize. For the most part, these flows did not crystallize under water, but flowed freely over the land surface, in some cases up to 600 km. There are places where field evidence shows that the lava flowed into smaller bodies of water, such as lakes or streams, but the overall character of the flows is terrestrial. If the Humphreys geomagnetic theory were correct, virtually all of the flows should show evidence of geomagnetic reversals occurring, and they do not.
The Columbia River Basalt (CRB) Group consists of as many as 270 individual flows. Many of these show evidence of the passage of time between eruptions, such as sedimentary deposits and deep weathering and soil formation. If these eruptions occurred during the flood, they occurred late in the flood year, as once has to account for all the Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic sediments that are stratigraphically lower.
A current trend in YEC geology is to put the Cenozoic (such as the Steens Mountain flows and the CRB) into a period of post-catastrophic residual catastrophism. This doesn't help the YEC position, however, as 200,000 cubic kilometers of basaltic magma in 200+ individual flows won't erupt, cool, crystallize, and weather in a few hundred years any more than it would in a few months at the end of the flood.
Humphreys focuses on the record of geomagnetic change within an individual flow, but his model completely fails to explain the big picture geomagnetic record of these massive "flood basalt" groups.
Lava cooling rates are pretty well verified, lots and lots of examples to look at today, both in and out of water. The thickness of the flows is known, and so it's pretty basic math to figure out how long it took the flows seen in the CRB to cool down.
What part of that is "unverified assumption"? What is being left out that the YEC view takes into account?
You mentioned "rapid cooling". How would that happen? The CRB didn't flow into water for the most part, so most would take months to years to cool, easily long enough to capture lots and lots of reversals even if only happening once a week.
However, that is never seen. How is that explained?
How is it explained that those 270 flows show no evidence of being cooled by water (aside from chunks cooled by lakes or streams) while they are supposed to have come out in the middle of a Flood?
Kevin mentioned soil forming (as opposed to being deposited) in between flows. How does that happen during a Flood?
What is being left out of that picture that a YEC view takes into account which allows all that to happen in such a short amount of time?
You mentioned that there are things Kevin is leaving out, but you never mentioned what they are.
I'll take a closer look at the Woodmorappe and Oard article on the Columbia River Basalts (CRB) you referred to. My initial impression, as one who is somewhat familiar with the CRB, is not at all positive.
For example, they refer to "a significant number of pillow lavas" in the CRB. Pillow lavas are pillow-shaped features formed when lava flows into water. Pillow lavas are not rare in the CRB, but are certainly not a dominant feature, and some flows lack them altogether. When present, they are generally found at the base or margins of lava flows, indicating that the lava flowed into water on the Earth's surface, such as into lakes or streams. This is confirmed by the presence of freshwater (not marine as the authors say) fossils in the lake and stream sediments the lava flowed into. If the lava flows had been extruded under water, as the authors suggest, there ought to be pillow structures on the tops of the flows, but there are none as far as I know. There is no evidence that any of the flows on the Columbia Plateau were extruded subaqueously.
There are other, factual problems with the article that I won't go into here. I read it and shook my head a number of times. This isn't a worldview "you've just got to think like a YEC in order to understand" issue. The authors misrepresent some of the articles they footnote, and simply don't seem to understand the implications of what they so confidently assert.
"However, that is never seen." Is referring to the claim that the entirety of the CRB flowed out underwater. What IS seen are particular locations which look like they've flowed into water. What is NOT ever seen, even according to the AiG article, is that the entire thing was flowing out into water. They point to individual locations where PART of the flow shows evidence of flowing out underwater (and even those small areas only showed up in 1 in 10 or 15 of the locations, according to them).
"the main unverified assumption is that you can tell when lava cooled underwater and when it didn't."
I'm not sure why you say that when the entire article is based on the premise that one CAN tell when lava flows out underwater compared to on land. They even point out the typical formation which forms when lava flows underwater – pillowing.And then there are the obviously non-underwater formation which are found throughout the CRB – lava plateaus, lava breakouts, tumuli formations, inflated sheet flows, and more. (an aside on the inflated sheet flows – you can see how long it took them to cool/inflate/cool/inflate pretty easily, and some of the inflated sheet flows in the CRB took years to stop their cooling/inflation pattern, and the inflated sheet flows absolutely cannot form underwater)
As for the evidence of soil forming between the flows, are you really arguing that people can't tell the difference? Really? Kevin might want to give a more complete description of the differences, but I can give you at least a brief one.
Especially between the Grande Ronde basalt and the Wanapum basalt flows, there is quite obviously quite a bit paleosol and fossil soil. There are areas found between other flows, but the GR and Wanapum flows have the most. There are thick layers of soil (now solidified into rock) which were obviously not laid down by any sort of flood waters – the soils have old stream beds in them, there are entire environments mostly intact with root structures still in place, there are root tracings in the soil, there is different coloration from the chemical changes caused by growing plants, there are different types of borders between layers. Paleosols have a much different pH, and have different chemical content than a sedimentary deposition. You can do x-ray diffraction studies to look at the type of crystalline structure is present, which again, is very different than the structure of sediments.
Paleosols and fossil soils are pretty easy to identify. They are found all over the world too, in layers that are supposed to be laid down by the Flood. It's not just the CRB where they are found – there are thousands of locations all around the globe where layers are present that show intact and growing environments and soil. According to Flood geology, there shouldn't be any – the Flood came along with enough volume and force to scour the entire earth down for MILES thick of soil and rock rushing around at speeds over 100 MPH and then started laying the sediment back down, again miles thick. There shouldn't be a single instance of paleosol anywhere. There shouldn't be a single evidence of subaerial formation of anything anywhere. Certainly not in between lava flows which are supposed to have come out during the Flood over the course of mere weeks.
But, instead, they are there, and they're all over the world.
Dr. Wile:
It is possible to determine in general how quickly a lava flow cooled.
As determined by both laboratory studies and field studies of modern lava flows, the primary determinant of crystal size in a lava flow is the rate at which it crystallizes. When a lava cools very quickly, such as when it comes into contact with water, there is insufficient time for ions to diffuse through the lava solution and the result is a glassy texture (e.g. obsidian). The individual pillows in a pillow basalt have glassy rinds, with a fine-grained crystalline core. The interior cools more slowly, as it is not in direct contact with water, so there is time for distinct (though still microscopic) crystals to form. When the lava has even more time to crystallize, crystals grow larger. (There are other factors involved: rate of formation of nucleation sites, amount of undercooling of the lava, ion diffusion rates; but the rate of cooling seems to dominate).
How would I apply the YE model to this? Unless we somehow modify the laws of chemistry and physics during the flood (which mainstream YECs don't want to do), we have to account for 200,000 km3 of basalt erupting, flowing, and crystallizing under water, very late in the flood, with no evidence that the tops of the flows were ever in contact with water.
This will be my last comment, unless you specifically ask me a question.


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I had the privilege last week of hosting a webinar with Andrew Borg from Aberdeen Research. In the webinar, Andrew presented findings published in their recently released research report Enterprise Mobility Management 2011: Mobility Becomes Core IT. You can view the webinar here or download the full Aberdeen research report here. As Andrew and I prepared for the webinar early last week we had some animated conversations regarding a few of the more surprising findings from the webinar. I thought I would share one here.
The diagram below (from the report) depicts the stages of the EMM mobile device lifecycle. The diagram is absolutely accurate but what the diagram doesn't portray quite clearly is the pressure that the consumerization (or bring your own device, BYOD) trend is creating for IT departments. In the traditional top-down IT-driven model each of the three refresh cycles in this diagram can stretch over years. That seems manageable.
The reality with mobile devices, like iPhones, iPads, Android and BlackBerry devices, and who knows what next is quite different (see here). There will be new device refresh cycles being launched by the day (or even hour) in your organization as new mobile devices hit the market, devices are lost or stolen, employees receive new devices as gifts or as their current mobile network plans expire, or some hot new application shows up in the Android Market. Not so manageable anymore.
So what is a responsible mobile operations professional to do?
Well, if you take anything away from the findings of this research it is this: no organization should accept the risks of neglecting ANY of the phases of the EMM lifecycle. Each of the 6 phases of the lifecycle are necessary. So how are the best-in-class companies dealing with the realities of the perpetual mobile device refresh cycle, while simultaneously enjoying lower support and IT costs per mobile employee than organizations that are not best-in-class?
There are two clear areas where best-in-class organizations have differentiated themselves.
- Best-in-class organizations have adopted a process-driven approach to EMM, centrally managed by the IT organization
- Best-in-class organization have adopted Mobile Device Management platforms (like MaaS360) that automate key mobile device management workflows
The answer to the perpetual mobile device refresh cycle is NOT the perpetual change control cycle.


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Just by a fluke I was at a local gunshop and my dealer had a flyer from CDNN. Thumbing thru it I saw that they had Steyrs MA1 series in both 9mm and .40 for $339.00. I have never really looked closely at one before but have heard good things about them so I thought for that price, why not. Apparently the company was going thru a reorganization with a new owner and CDNN bought out there entire inventory.
I have to report after my 1'st range session with it today WOW!
Points like a Luger and is now one of my favorite pistols. Typical Austrian quality with fantastic ergonomics, this this just feels right. The thing ate everything I put thru it and the accuracy at 25 yds was like a death ray. If you get a chance to shoot one you'll want it. I'm buying another one before they're all gone. This is the gun Glock should have been.


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The baby bunnies born in our yard and growing up in our woodpile (we think) have eaten all the leaves off my asiatic lilies. I've put down blood meal and bought some chicken wire that we'll use to surround them. Is it likely the stalks will grow taller and make more leaves to absorb energy to feed the bulbs for next year? |
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Rabbits can be devastating to lilies. There's not much hope for taller new growth this year. Keep whatever stem and leaves you have (as is) 'till Fall when they go dormant. it won't kill the bulb, but your plants will be smaller next year. You'll have to install a chicken wire or rabbit fence because it's either the bunnies or the lilies, the two don't mix. Rabbits can also spread plant viruses when they go from plant to plant munching along. |
So very sorry....I feel your pain. I loose lilies every year to rabbits. I try and surround most in chicken wire and that helps. But, last year the voles ate the bulbs! I am no longer adding lilies to my garden. I love them so much, but can not fight Mother Nature. Lesley |
- Posted by imscattered 5b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 1, 13 at 21:27
This is my first year at this house and I've been busy planting new beds. 3 days ago I planted two Asian/Oriental lilies. They are at their mature heights and have lots of buds. We have several resident rabbits who've eating my blackeyed susans and purple cone flowers as new growth comes up. We are making progress on these by spraying deterrent and covering plants with little cages of chicken wire. |
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We recently purchased a 100 year old home in a fairly historic area. The exterior needs to be painted or otherwise recovered. Has anyone ever had permacoat (goes on like paint, but performs like vinyl) or a similar product put on their house?
We'd like to avoid vinyl siding because it is not used much in our area, and we don't want to have to repaint the house down the road. Does this seem like a good alternative to vinyl siding or regular paint? Any idea how this affects resale value vs. paint or vinyl siding? Thanks,
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Personally, my likes/dislikes - Vinyl siding is cheapo stuff to hide faults. If you are going to use siding, why not aluminum that will actually last 30 yrs without the cracks and warps and chintzy feel. Spray on coatings, yea right - hide the faults rather than fix them. I think of that stuff as really cheapo stuff that is sold to retail consumers for way too much money. Profit making stuff for the seller. Cracks and falls off walls eventually. Do it up right and paint the dang thing is my opinion if you want it to continure appreciating in value and actually have class rather than jerry rig the whole place so it looks cheap down the road with those consumer sales gimmics. |
Hi, Maybe you should listen to someone who actually has USED the permacoat. I had the CHIC liquid vinyl system put on my house three years ago. We have a great 1900-vintage foursquare, which was badly neglected by the prior owners. The paint had peeled off most of it, and lots of the clabbords were rotten and needed to be replaced. We considered vinyl siding, but some of our neighbors' houses had it, and we just hated the look. On the other hand, my dad seems to have to paint his house every 5 years or so, and it's not cheap. Obviously, I only have 3 years' experience to go by, but I can tell you that it looks great; exactly like the day they finished. No peeling, cracking, chalking or anything. Luckily I haven't had to call in the waranty, but the manufacturer did provide me with a lifetime, transferable waranty for any issues. We were also able to match our exact color choices, just as if we had used regular paint. Vinyl siding comes in boring colors, because it tends to fade badly over time. The key to getting this done is using a reliable dealer, and making sure that the surface is prepped correctly. That is really most of the cost of a paint job anyhow. It's impossible to look at our house and tell that it isn't just a normal paint job. It really came out beautifully. It doesn't "hide faults" and it doesn't look "cheap". In fact, I think we preserved the value by going this way, instead of vinyl siding. |
Thanks mwkbear, Did they have to take all of the paint off before applying the liquid vinyl? If you don't mind telling, how much did they charge to coat your 1900 sf home? Sorry mikie, I wouldn't dream of using aluminum siding. |
Hi, They didn't have to take all the paint off. They had to replace all the rotten wood, of course. Then, they scraped and sanded the rest, the same as any good preparation for a regular paint job. Also, before going through with this, I'd thoroughly check out the contractor. Check with local references who have had the Permacoat, as well. I believe the cost of just the painting and the standard prep (not including replacing clabbords, fascia, etc) was $10,000. I live in the Boston area, so prices are a bit higher here, too. Also, I did get a few estimates for standard paint jobs and those ranged from $5,000-$8,000. So, it seemed definitely worthwhile to do. My only caveat is if your house has asbestos cement siding, that really holds the paint very well, and a good paint job can last upwards of 15 years or more. So, in that case, it's a toss up as to whether it's worthwhile or not. For what it's worth, here's a picture of my house with the CHIC: |
"Luckily I haven't had to call in the waranty, but the manufacturer did provide me with a lifetime, transferable waranty for any issues." I bet teh waratny is not worth the paper and ink they used to print it. |
Hi, The waranty comes directly from the manufacturer, CHIC Liquid Vinyl Systems. If you want to check out the company, here is the company website. They have been in business for over 25 years. Do you have a roof on your house? The standard waranty for asphalt roofing shingles is 30-40 years, and I bet that GAF or OwensCorning or CertainTeed are not local companies. Yet, they issue those waranties and people have probably collected on them when necessary. I'm not sure why this liquid vinyl product engenders such misplaced anger and derision from so many people. It's a viable alternative to having to paint your house every 5 years, and for some people like me, it made sense to try it. I've been very happy with the results, and the other people who I used as references were thrilled with the results as well. In order to have a regular paint job last for more than 5-6 years, you need to really prep the house, and pretty much remove all the prior paint. By the time you get through paying for that kind of prep work, the Permacoat process starts to look pretty good. NONE of the paint quotes I received would guarantee their work for more than 2 years, no matter what the level of the prep work. |
Here is a link that might be useful: CHIC Liquid Vinyl
- Posted by sacto_diane (My Page) on Sat, Aug 19, 06 at 0:30
I"m going to say stay away from any of those "spray on siding" products as over the long term they are going to create more problems than they solve. Here is a link to a discussion on another web site that has been going on for quite a while. Please give it a read... http://www.oldhousejournal.com/cgi-local/forum1/index4.pl?read=1013 |
Here is a link that might be useful: Spray on siding
I don't think anyone is telling you not to enjoy the product you are pleased with. I think, for some of us, the "too good to be true" alarm has gone off in our heads. Also, the five year repaint position you continue to express is not the norm for many of us. A good paint job lasts longer than 5 years. Didn't you say the spray on required a similar sort of prep? How do you repair or touch-up the vinyl? Do they leave a can for touch-ups? History on this forum shows that most here do not use vinyl products on their homes. I think you have presented an alternative for those who might be looking for this sort of solution. Others, including those on the link to the other old house forum, are expressing cautions that those weighing the benefit of this product should take into consideration. |
A quality paint job should least at least 10 years. Poor prep work almost always kills paint films early. My BS detector tends to go off with companires like this. Maybe since for all the advertising claims there is not an actual piece of testing data on the web site? New very tight houses have shown a number of moisture related problems. Heat recovery ventilators have moved from the commercial world into residential use to try and deal with the moisture buildup in tightly sealed homes. |
Hi all, I've been involved in this discussion before on this site. Regarding the Old House Web link posted above, you can read my response below. People keep bringing up that thread, but nobody seems to bother to read it carefully. As for touch ups, they did leave us a bucket of the CHIC product. As for the issue of it being "vinyl" and all the negative connotations that go along with that, I can tell you that it's not some funky plastic wrap. It's paint. It looks like paint on the house, and as I said before, nobody would know that I didn't just freshly paint my house, unless I told them otherwise. I keep "throwing around" the 5 year paint job, because I've never lived in a house where the paint job looked good beyond that point. At the 5 year mark, there were obvious signs of problems...chalking when you rubbed against the siding...little alligator cracking in places, maybe even some peeling here and there. Three of my neighbors just repainted their houses this summer, and all told me that it had been more like 10 years since they last painted. But, it LOOKED like it was 10 years. Each house probably should have been painted sooner. Also, if paint lasts so long, how come NONE of the painting contractors I contacted would offer more than a 2-year waranty? Regarding the water vapor issue and Perm ratings, here are some actual scientific studies from a reputable testing company. The Perm ratings are all listed below (next to last paragraph). This information is on the CHIC website: Does CHIC Liquid Vinyl Breathe? This is very important question and one that many people ask. If Chic Liquid Vinyl or any other exterior coating did not breathe (which is another term for "vapor permeability"), there could be a problem because moisture vapor would build up in the wall of the house, would condense and over time would cause wood damage, mildew, and mold. Vapor Permeability is the degree to which water or water vapor can penetrate (or escape from) a buildings material. This permeability is measured in perms. The lower the perm rating of a coating; the lower the vapor permeability. Conversely, the higher the perm rating of a coating; the higher the vapor permeability. The Boston based Building Science Corporation (www.buildingscience.com) can help one understand perm ratings. Building Science Corporation is an architectural and building science consulting firm with clients throughout North America. This company is internationally recognized for its expertise in moisture dynamics, indoor air quality and building failure investigations. They have a glossary that includes some definitions that relate to vapor permeability. Here are those definitions. · Vapor Impermeable: Materials with a perm rating of 0.1 less. (rubber membrane, polyethylene film, glass, aluminum foil) · Vapor Semi-Impermeable: Materials with a perm rating greater than 0.1 but less than 1.0. (oil-based paints) · Vapor Semi-Permeable: Materials with a perm rating greater than 1.0 but less than 10.0 (plywood, OSB, most latex-based paints, elastomeric paints and coatings) · Vapor Permeable: Materials with a perm rating greater than 10 perms (house wraps, building papers) What is the Perm rating of CHIC Liquid Vinyl? Using the ASTM* E96 Procedure B test method, CHIC Liquid Vinyl has a Perm rating of 18. This rating confirms that CHIC Liquid Vinyl is on the high end of the vapor permeable category. Therefore, CHIC Liquid Vinyl is very breatheable, thus allowing water vapor to escape from the building wall. CHIC Liquid Vinyl has been applied to exterior walls of all kinds on thousands of buildings in North America over the last 21 years. In that 21-year period there has not been one issue of wood rot, mildew, or mold resulting from the application of the CHIC Liquid Vinyl System. |
I wonder what people said when latex paint started showing up. "Use that instead of oil based? Bah! Don't come running to me when it all peels off in the first rain!" I don't know how good this stuff is; this is the first I've heard of it. But advances are made all the time. Maybe this is the next generation of house paint. Is it the word "vinyl" that has everyone switched over to "scorn" mode in the absence of information? Our house needs painting, and I'm going to check this out as an alternative. |
I saw some ads for a similar product about 7 years ago. They called it "liquid vinyl siding." They claimed it was a new product developed by NASA for the space program. Supposedly it had the same R-value something like R-11. It required professional preparation (by their work crew) plus replacement of any deteriorated wood. Their ads claimed the total cost was "comparable" to that of regular vinyl siding. I had entertained the idea of checking it out, but I haven't seen those ads for several years now. If it was such a great product, I would think it would still be around, and widely used by now. One of my concerns was that, from what I read in the ads, the stuff didn't breathe significantly. Yet, I would think that by now, with all the issues involving lead paint and interest in historic preservation, market demand would have lead someone to develop an effective primer that would impregnate wood reaching several millimetres below the surface, and allow a paint job to last in terms of decades rather than years. Don |
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i am a architect in the new york area and there in one liquid vinyl company me an my colleauges recommend and that is am vi co LVS go to neverpaintagain.com it is a true lvs and the chic product is a acrylic paint it is a good paint but is not truly a LVS if you have the extra money upfront such as the govenment and such entities do they are going with the LVS by AM VI CO bc it has proven to be made the way paints should have been being manufactured years ago but paint companys realize people are buying there product ever 5 years and now they may make a similar LVS because in the world of architects this is the only way to go just make sure you have a certified installer. |
- Posted by brian(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Dec 11, 10 at 23:46
has anyone had liquid vinyl paint done over existing vinyl siding?If so, are their links/pictures available. I've read that liquid vinyl paint gives the impression of real wod grain, but I can't imagine that could be true if it was painted over vinyl clapboard siding? Thanks, Brian. |
- Posted by TR(email@example.com) onFri, May 13, 11 at 16:00
I am also checking out this liquid siding. Cost is big for me. The one thing that I think of is the spray on bed liners for pickups....... That stuff is tuff... Products are being improved.. I would like to do my on prep and my own painting. If I can get the price down by doing my own work, I will do it... I would like to see and touch this stuff on a house.. I am very interested in this.... I don't want to paint this house but one time.... |
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My girlfriend bought these for me because she knew I liked Analog denim and because they were on sale. I wish she hadn't. While I like other jeans by Analog (especially the Arto), I can't stand these. Why? First, they're REALLY scratchy. Most Analog denim is soft, not the Dylan's. My legs feel chafed from wearing these. Second, the web site says there's spandex in 'em. No spandex in the charcoal wax. Because there's no spandex, they don't have any flex. This is fine if you just want to sit around in them all day. If you actually want movement, you won't find it here. Finally, Analog thought that it would be sick if the pants looked creased diagonally on the thighs. In order to achieve this look, they actually stitched creases into the pants. This isn't sick, it's stupid. Ugh, I hate these pants. Buy some other analog model. I can't believe Rieder actually skates in these things!
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Got the pants and right out of the package they look sweet! The color is perfect and the waxy looks good but they did have one problem, the charcoal wax didn't have any spandex in them so they don't stretch a whole lot. Wouldn't mind so much if the website hadn't said they had spandex but they are still cool pants.
Easily some of Analog's illist denim yet. Definitely a "slim not skinny" fit, with a nice, narrow tapered opening. Size up for the gangster fit, or go true to size for a session at the park and then a killer night on the town.


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Maybe Telligent will create an OpenSearch directory for all the CS communities out there. We'll have to wait and see. Anyways, if you want to write your own, I'll show you how!Writing Your Own Provider:
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Eddie Murphy's genetically gifted daughter Bria Murphy is now a model and recently revealed some … questionable … eating habits of her peers. Said Murphy in an interview:
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What Corzine's opponent is trying to argue is that Corzine "doesn't live like [Average Americans]" and therefore can't relate to them. Corzine is so rich that when he loses millions of dollars in a single year, he's still richer than most people. That fact does seem to prove Corzine's opponent's point - and *yet* that is, in fact, punishing Corzine for being financially successful (something that pretty much all Americans aspire to). Because he's doing financially better than the average American, you should hold that against him (note that the ad didn't attack Corzine for being a banker, just for being rich enough to lose enough money to not need to pay taxes while not being broke).
Likewise with Obama, the woman I talked to was absolutely right that crowd President Obama hung out with at Columbia and Harvard was in no way, shape, or form, representative of America as a whole. I don't think he hung out with a lot of police officers, coal miners, soldiers, nurses, plumbers, teachers, etc. while eating at the Harvard Law cafeteria. And yet, by arguing that point, she's punishing Obama for achieving what her niece achieved - attending a prestigious university without having wealthy parents donate a lot of money to guarantee the student a spot.
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Warren Buffet is one of the richest men in the world—and he didn't get there by making bad bets.
So when his company, Berkshire Hathaway, announced they would award $1 billion to the person who correctly predicts the outcome of every NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament game, you can be reasonably sure they knew they'd never have to pay out.
The chances of filling out a perfect bracket? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to one.
As an article on Slate pointed out, that means "If all 317 million people in the U.S. filled out a bracket at random, you could run the contest for 290 million years and there'd still be a 99 percent chance that no one had ever won."
Those odds are why we don't encourage gambling. I haven't heard a Mysterious Ways story yet where God made somebody rich–although sometimes winning a contest does serve a higher purpose, as one reader's story showed us.
I'll be watching this year's tournament for its entertainment value, not how much value it can add to my bank account.
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Following up on February's "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" collaboration, Diamond Supply Co. and Ibn Jasper are back at it again, this time producing a "Black Diamond" version of their mid-top sneaker silhouette. Dressed in an upper built with black ballistic mesh and nappa leather trim, the shoe is finished with … READ MORE
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The Queue: Pandaren dance {WoW}
Feb 21st 2012 11:46AM More accurately, the Maelstrom *IS* the Well of Eternity. You might notice the striking similarities between how the Well looks (churning and spinning) in the 5-man and how the Maelstrom looks when you go there. It's actually pretty creepy when you think about it.
Wouldn't this be cool? Another draenei ship {WoW}
Feb 16th 2012 6:09PM I love this idea! I normally play Horde, but as an RPer, something like this would make me be excited about being Draenei!
And I would particularly like for the belves to get some storyline love too.
I'd like to see this idea get posted in a place where Nyarloth and the other blues will see it. :)
Heart of the Aspects video and giveaway {WoW}
Feb 15th 2012 9:51AM Pick me, pick me! XD
Breakfast Topic: What is your class theme song? {WoW}
Feb 14th 2012 8:20AM This comment is so full of win. :D
Breakfast Topic: What is your class theme song? {WoW}
Feb 14th 2012 8:10AM This might be the single most disturbing post I've ever seen here.............. o.O
Should WoW players be responsible for player accountability? {WoW}
Feb 8th 2012 4:43PM It's not a TERRIBLE idea, but I can also imagine people going to vote on these kinds of issues and voting in a way that just griefs a player who may clearly be in the right. It's an easy system to corrupt, unfortunately. I'd be a little nervous about filing a report, because such a report might be voted as needless QQ, "oh he harassed you because you wiped 4 times in Raid Finder on trash, so you must suck at Raid Finder, it's ****ing easy mode, so I vote for the guy who harassed you. Lulz."
Breakfast Topic: How do you roleplay in WoW? {WoW}
Feb 6th 2012 8:56AM "That didn't just happen. Take two...action!"
Breakfast Topic: How do you roleplay in WoW? {WoW}
Feb 6th 2012 8:40AM This is mainly a reply to the topic, but I also wanted to reply to Cyclops' question too... A lot of RPers use addons like Total RP 2, which allows you to create custom RP "buffs" and "debuffs" that can indicate body language or other things about your character that can't be indicated except in text. (For example they might have a debuff that says they are limping on their left leg.) Emoticons are considered OOC, but we (on my server, Earthen Ring) generally try to indicate sarcasm with emotes along with the dialogue. Or in the case of my most common RP partner, I'm usually on Vent with her so I can verbally clarify anything that might not have come across clearly in the typing.
Now for the main topic: I start RPing by thinking about what kind of person my character is. Does she actually like being part of the Horde, for example? In my case, my blood elf mage doesn't really care for the Horde, and considers herself more Kirin Tor than Horde. What does she think of Garrosh? Sylvanas? Other political issues that a blood elf mage would consider? It starts by putting myself into the perspective of blood elves in general and what they think of this and that, and then I start customizing the character's story personally and see how that changes things. My mage's view that she is more Kirin Tor than Horde comes from the fact that she was in Dalaran when it was destroyed, and helped rebuild and protect it.
My character's storyline encompasses MOST aspects of gameplay... Although I've been seen in Alterac Valley many times, my character would not admit to having been there to fight the Alliance... It's just not her thing. She does raid, but does so out of character. If my RP partners are with me, we usually stay silent throughout the raid and then we RP at the end when everyone else is leaving, after loot rolls and so on, to look at the impact that this raid's results might have had on Azeroth and on our characters. (RP after the Sunwell raid, for a blood elf mage, was very...interesting...) This lets us get our RP fix without being disruptive.
Last thing and then I'll shut up... There really doesn't seem to be much PVP involved. Cross-faction RP that could lead to PVP isn't really possible without dual-boxing or Vent to get around communication barriers, and I've only had one case of PVP dueling ever.
So there ya go. Great breakfast topic! This was a fun one. :D
Do mages really need 3 competitive PvE specs? {WoW}
Feb 4th 2012 9:59PM While Frost may be "the" PVP spec for mages, I actually am pretty bad when I give it a go in PVP...but I can make frost stand up and do tricks in PVE. (Freeze, Deep Freeze, Icy Veins, Cold Snap, Deep Freeze, in that order...it dishes out a lot of pain!) But I do think it's a little rough that mages are a one-trick pony, as far as roles go. I'd actually like to see Blizz go out of the box and give mages a tanking spec, to be perfectly honest... This doesn't require high HP, just abilities with good damage absorption and threat generation. I don't think it'll happen, but it would be a cool change of pace.
Breakfast Topic: What parts of gameplay do you consider a chore? {WoW}
Feb 4th 2012 11:00AM For me, the chores are picking through all the talents and figuring out which ones to take and which ones to pass on while leveling. And, the other big chore is leveling my crafting professions. Ironically, that has led me to also take mining like your friend. To me, gathering professions are just simpler. Yeah, I might not make as much money as I would in say alchemy or inscription, but the clink-clink that annoys you sounds like a cash register to me! :)


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Pot Calling the Kettle Pirate: Sony, Universal, and Fox Busted for BitTorrents
Ouhhhhhh, burn. People in SOPA-supporting Hollywood giants should stop throwing stones. Using a new site called You Have Downloaded, a Russian-based service that says it tracks about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads, the fine folks at TorrentFreak took a look at IP addresses at entertainment conglomerates likes Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Entertainment and NBC Universal to see "whether these companies hold themselves to the same standards they demand of others."
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