Siding in Allegheny County Pennsylvania

Siding in Allegheny County Pennsylvania — Built to Last

The Roofing Company – Committed to James Hardie Siding

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Your siding does a pair of functions simultaneously, and just one of those is apparent. It determines what the house looks from the road — and it acts as the barrier that keeps moisture from reaching the wall behind it. When the exterior lets go, the harm is rarely limited to what you can see.

The Roofing Company takes on siding projects for residents across Allegheny County Pennsylvania. We have deliberately concentrated the exterior offering on James Hardie fiber cement systems, because of the manner in which those products behave in weather like Pennsylvania’s.

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Why We Recommend James Hardie Siding

James Hardie fiber cement performs in another way from traditional vinyl and from timber in precisely the respects that matter locally:

• The material does not warp or melt under direct heat the way some vinyl products can.
• Freezing and thawing cycling is specifically the load which punishes many wall options in Pennsylvania, and fiber cement is built with that in mind.
• Wood-boring insects don't consume it, and it won't rot the way timber siding can.
• It keeps paint considerably better than many alternatives, which lowers the work you spend on it down the road.
• Combustion behavior — it is not combustible, which counts considerably more to some families than the rest.

Hardly any of that carries through a careless job, of course. Fiber cement has specific installation specifications — spacing, fastening, flashing details, and butt-joint handling — and doing them badly undoes the reason you selected it at all. It may also affect the factory guarantee.

Exterior Work We Take On

• Full siding replacement – removing the old exterior, inspecting whatever is behind it, and hanging a new system correctly.
• Siding repairs – where the problem is localized and a full redo is genuinely not warranted.
• New exterior job.
• Exterior combined with roof work – doing both at once frequently makes more sense on any project and on a cost.

Where Siding and Trim Installations Cause Trouble

Just as with a roof, the problems are almost always located at the details rather than in the field:

• Metal flashing at windows and door openings. Rain which works around a frame and has nowhere to drain will sit in the wall.
• The house-wrap barrier behind the siding. The exterior is never an impermeable layer; whatever sits under it performs a great deal of the genuine job.
• Ground and roof clearances. Fiber cement specifies mandated clearances at the ground, at rooflines, and at flat surfaces. Tightening them up looks tidier and produces problems later.
• Fastening plus butt-joint handling. Both are specified by the factory for a reason.

The Things That Drive the Siding Number

The material runs more vinyl on both in the product and as installation — the material is considerably heavier, is cut by other means, and carries installation requirements that absorb time to follow. The variables past the product decision:

• Stripping the existing exterior, plus whatever sits under the old material. Sheathing damage and a missing weather-resistive layer remain frequent discoveries and aren't visible until it is open.
• Trim work scope. Corners, window casings, frieze and band detail. This accounts for the point at which a wall job either looks properly resolved else presents unfinished, and it stays hand work.
• Wall geometry. Dormers and gables, architectural returns, projections, and any additional opening.
• Insulation plus a rainscreen assemblies. Substantial performance improvements worth considering when the exterior is off, and realistic at scarcely any other point.

Our 10-Year Workmanship Warranty

With James Hardie, how it goes on is not a secondary question from the material — it decides if the factory coverage holds at all. This is why qualifying siding projects by The Roofing Company include a ten-year Installation Warranty. Should a covered problem trace back to the way we installed it inside that decade, we fix it — at no cost to the owner.

The manufacturer guarantee on the material itself applies in parallel with ours, according to the manufacturer's terms. Given that fiber cement warranty can depend on specification-compliant workmanship, these are considerably more connected than with certain sidings.

Hiring The Roofing Company

We are a family-owned contractor, into the third generation in the trades. That shapes how we price projects: a specific proposal that sets out what will be performed, photos of whatever we found, and a plain explanation of which elements are a problem now against what can reasonably be deferred.

We further operate a veteran price break, and a customer referral reward: when a neighbor goes ahead with a full home project, there is $250 back to you. Terms apply.

Reach 412-858-8858 to get an honest read on siding at your home in Allegheny County Pennsylvania — before any decision is made.