Siding Replacement in Kennesaw, GA

Siding Replacement for Kennesaw homes

The stock is overwhelmingly suburban and built in one long wave — 1980s through early-2000s subdivisions off Cobb Parkway and Stilesboro Road, with Legacy Park and Summerbrooke typical of the mid-to-late-90s build-out. That means builder-grade exteriors aging on one schedule: hardboard and Masonite lap siding swelling and delaminating at the butt joints and bottom courses in Georgia humidity, early fiber-cement that needs real prep and re-caulking, brick fronts with sided gables and rear walls, and the synthetic-stucco and stone-veneer accents on the golf-community homes, which have to be checked for moisture before anything goes over them. These are repaint jobs on a cycle — chalked coatings, failed caulk lines and south-and-west sun damage — and the pressure-treated pine decks that came with the houses are due to be stripped and restained. Inside, the two-story foyers and open great rooms of this era read as high-wall and stairwell work, and the older subdivisions still have popcorn ceilings to pull. The exception is a small, genuinely old core around the downtown depot — wood-frame houses from the late 1800s into the 1920s, weatherboard and wood sash — that needs carpentry and prep before a topcoat, plus scattered 1960s-70s brick ranches near Pinetree with trim, soffit and eave repair of their own.

Areas we work in Kennesaw

• Downtown Kennesaw
• Legacy Park
• Pinetree Country Club
• Summerbrooke
• East Park Village

Near Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Depot Park, Swift-Cantrell Park and across the rest of Kennesaw.

Siding Replacement on Kennesaw houses

Siding replacement is a high-demand job in Kennesaw because so many 1990s and early-2000s houses went up with hardboard or Masonite lap that is now swelling and delaminating. Through Summerbrooke, East Park Village and Legacy Park, owners typically replace the sided walls, usually the sides, back and gables, with fiber cement and keep the brick front. Some early fiber-cement from the same era is still sound and only needs paint. The golf-community homes around Pinetree mix lap siding with synthetic stucco and stone veneer, and the depot-area houses have wood weatherboard that is often better repaired than replaced.

What usually gets missed

The common mistake here is replacing more than needed, or less. Hardboard and early fiber cement can look alike under paint, and one house can have both. We identify each wall's material before quoting, so sound fiber cement gets painted and failed hardboard comes off. Where siding meets synthetic stucco or stone veneer on the Pinetree-area homes, the junction is a frequent leak point, so we open it and check the sheathing before closing it up with proper flashing.