Siding Contractors Serving Des Moines and Central Iowa

Longer than most people expect, if it was installed correctly. Quality vinyl and fiber cement both have long service lives, and what actually ends a siding job here is almost never the material wearing out. It is water that got behind it through a bad detail, or hail. That is why we spend more time on flashing and fastening than on which panel you pick.

Three things decide it: how long you plan to own the house, what your budget genuinely is, and whether hail has already found your exterior. Long hold, painted-wood look, or a neighborhood that keeps getting hit points to James Hardie fiber cement. Tight budget, large square footage, or wanting to stop thinking about maintenance points to Mastic vinyl. We install a lot of both.

It can be done and it is faster and cheaper, but we do not recommend it. A replacement is the only chance you will ever get to see the sheathing behind your walls. Siding over the top covers whatever is there, including rot you do not know about, and you are not getting a proper new weather barrier. We would rather tear off, look, and tell you.

We do both, and we would rather sell you the repair when the repair is the right answer. Isolated damage on a sound wall is a repair. Widespread cracking, soft sheathing, or panels nailed wrong from the start is a replacement, because the repairs will not stop. A free inspection tells us which you are looking at.

It depends on the size of the house, the material, and how much trim work is involved, and any contractor who gives you a number before walking the house is guessing. We will give you a realistic window in writing before we start, and tell you promptly if anything behind the old siding changes it.

We stop and show you before anything gets covered back up. You get photos, an explanation of how far it goes, and a price, and then you decide. What we will not do is quietly wrap it into the invoice at the end, or cover it and say nothing. On an older house it is common enough that we plan for the conversation.

Hail and wind damage to siding is often a covered loss, but that is between you and your carrier and coverage varies by policy. We inspect and document the damage with dated photographs and give you a written scope of work and an itemized estimate. That documentation is yours to submit. We can be on site during an adjuster's inspection to answer questions about our own scope. Under Iowa law we do not represent or negotiate with an insurance carrier on your behalf, and we would encourage you to be careful with any contractor who offers to.

Usually yes, and not because it sells more work. Those pieces all meet each other, so one pass means one mobilization and every transition detailed together instead of working around somebody else's work. If your gutters have plenty of life left we will say so and leave them alone.