We are beyond satisfied with our Tru Logs. Honestly, visitors never know that they aren't real logs until we tell them. I can't tell you how nice it is to just sit back and enjoy the appearance of our house instead of constantly worrying about restaining the logs. And, we live in the forest and if there is ever a threat of a fire we are much safer with steel siding then wood. I just wish we would have used TruLogs when we first built instead of having to remove the logs to put The Tru Logs on. We could have saved ourselves alot of money and aggravation.