Water & Fire Damage
Ruined drywall, subfloor and framing cut back to something solid and rebuilt, instead of patched over.
Water & Fire Damage in Burlington NCVinyl siding, wrapped trim and replacement windows across Alamance and Guilford County. The openings never get left open to the weather.
Siding and window replacement in Burlington NC is the fastest change you can make to how a house looks and how it holds heat. We do both together so the trim and the flashing line up instead of fighting each other.
Siding and window replacement in Burlington, NC. We hang vinyl siding over tired wood, wrap the trim and corners clean, and set replacement windows across Alamance and Guilford County.
They meet each other. The window flange, the housewrap, the flashing and the siding all overlap in a specific order, and that order is the only thing standing between the weather and your wall sheathing.
When siding and windows get done by different crews months apart, that overlap is where it goes wrong. Siding gets cut to an old window that then gets replaced. Flashing gets covered by a trim piece someone else installed. Water finds the gap, and nobody knows for two years.
Doing both in one pass means the layers go on in the right sequence, once.
Old siding comes off, and what is behind it gets looked at rather than covered up. Soft sheathing, rot at the bottom course, and old water tracks around windows are all common on houses around here, and all of them are cheap to fix while the wall is open and expensive to fix later.
Anything soft gets cut out and replaced. Then housewrap goes on, lapped correctly so water sheds down and out rather than getting trapped behind it.
Vinyl gets hung so it can move. It expands and contracts with temperature more than people realise, and siding nailed tight buckles in the first hot week. Nails go in the centre of the slot, snug rather than crushed, so the course can float.
Corners, J-channel and the trim around windows and doors are where a siding job visibly reads as good or bad from the kerb. Those are the cuts that get taken slowly. Fascia and soffit get wrapped where it makes sense, which kills the yearly painting on the parts of the house nobody wants to get a ladder out for.
Old single-pane windows in a Piedmont house lose heat in January and gain it in July, and most of them have long since stopped closing properly. Replacements go in square, shimmed so the sash operates smoothly, insulated around the perimeter, and sealed.
The opening never gets left open to the weather. Windows come out and go in the same working sequence, so you are not living behind plastic sheeting for a week waiting on a crew to come back.
While the ladders are up, the things you cannot see from the ground get dealt with: soffit that has come loose, fascia that has gone soft behind the gutter, siding that has wicked water at grade. This is the cheapest possible moment to handle any of it. Coming back later means paying for setup twice.
If water has already got inside, that is a different conversation and we handle that too. See water and fire damage repair.
Siding is priced by the square footage of wall, how many stories, how much trim and wrapping is involved, and what we find when the old material comes off. Windows are priced per opening and vary a lot by size and type. We measure everything, tell you what we expect to find behind the siding, and give you a price with that contingency stated out loud rather than sprung on you mid-job.
Doing the exterior usually starts people thinking about the inside. If that is you, popcorn ceiling removal and drywall and trim work are the two that change a room most for the money. Or see everything we do and call (336) 380-9459.
We take the old siding off. Going over the top hides rot, soft sheathing and old water damage instead of fixing it, and it stops you finding problems that are cheap now and expensive in five years. Stripping it also lets us get the housewrap and flashing right.
Yes, and it is the right way to do it. The window flange, housewrap, flashing and siding all overlap in a set order. Splitting the work across two crews months apart is exactly where leaks start.
It will not be. We work in sections and windows come out and go back in the same sequence, so there is no living behind plastic sheeting waiting on a return visit.
We cut it out and replace it, and we tell you before we do. We flag the likelihood in the original price so a bad wall is a stated contingency rather than a surprise invoice.
Yes, and while the ladders are up is the cheapest time to do it. Wrapping the fascia and soffit ends the yearly painting on the parts of the house that are hardest to reach.
Ruined drywall, subfloor and framing cut back to something solid and rebuilt, instead of patched over.
Water & Fire Damage in Burlington NCGround level and elevated decks, pool decks, stairs and railings. Framed from the footings up and built to code.
Decks & Pool Decks in Burlington NCHoles, cracks, water-stained board and whole rooms. Hung, taped, floated and finished, then trim run tight.
Drywall & Trim in Burlington NCWe will come look at the whole exterior and tell you what actually needs doing first.
(336) 380-9459