I'll email my brother in law and ask him, I'll post his reply back to me.. He's the expert at sideing as he has been doing it for decades now. For me it was just a gig between lay off's (Boeing)
My parents were in on the law suit as there house came down with the mold, but LP was only letting them have 12k to reside there house, the estimate of replaceing the sideing on there house was 28k, so they opt'ed not to do it. Instead we preasure washed the house, then bleached it, applied primer/sealer, new caulking, and painted. That was 6 or 7 years ago, and the house still looks great, there is no mold on there sideing to this day.
Trav.