Home Improvement Services > Replacement Siding

Beauty, energy savings and maintenance free can all come to mind when talking about siding. Whatever the reason, the more informed you are the better choice you will make for your home.

The cost of energy keeps rising so every penny counts. As homes age and settle, the opportunity for heat and cooling loss increases. Heating and cooling costs represent over 40% of the average families yearly household budget. Almost 45% of your heating and cooling dollar passes through the walls. Over the years this can represent thousands of dollars. Quality siding and insulation can increase the R-value of your home saving a significant amount on household budget.

Every spring you see them, the ladders and the paint buckets, the scrappers and the torches; the smell of paint fills the air. Who has time for that any more? Work and family obligations take precedence. We either neglect one of those or pay thousands of dollars to painters who will just be back in a few years to do it again. The average two story home costs $8,336 to paint, the average siding work of the same house $17,150 so you can see that within almost 2 painting cycles you have spent same amount of money. In the long term, even more money can be saved without the painting costs. Maintenance free siding allows you more time to spend on the more important things like family.

Modern technology allows you to have a product that won’t chip, crack, peel or blister. Color that is part of the material and not just sprayed or painted on. A home that will look new 20 years down the road as it did the day it was sided. Since curb appeal, how your house looks, is so important if/when you sell your house, most real estate professionals say that you can recover almost 80% of your over all cost of the siding job.

Today’s siding fits almost every architectural taste and provides the look and feel of natural materials without the long-term maintenance headaches. Four Seasons uses several different brands and manufacturers to offer homeowners the choices to fit any taste and budget. Vertical siding, FiberCement, Dutch lap, Clapboard and even the look of cedar shingles are some design choices available in dozens of colors.

But what if your home is brick; can you put siding on a brick home? Of course you can but most people wouldn’t since part of the appeal of a brick home is the brick. But is a brick house all brick? What about the eves and overhangs? And what about the wood around windows and doors? The trim work around a brick home and in fact every home, can be capped in maintenance free vinyl or aluminum so that they can be maintenance free also.

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