Siding Replacement in Alpharetta, GA

Siding Replacement for Alpharetta homes

The bulk of Alpharetta's houses went up between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Windward, the Mobil-developed lake community that began selling in 1983, is the clearest example: 44 neighborhoods in a variety of styles around Lake Windward, many on sloped lots with full daylight basements, some still unfinished and stubbed for a bath. Fronts tend to be brick or stone, with hardboard, cedar or early fiber-cement lap on the sides and rear, and some later homes in the area were clad in synthetic or three-coat stucco. Older still is Alpharetta Estates, built roughly 1972 to 1982 on large wooded lots near downtown, where the ranches carry four or five decades of wear. Downtown keeps a handful of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century homes, from Greek Revival to the 1912 Queen Anne Mansell House, with clapboard and old plaster. The newest stock is the townhome and condo infill around Avalon and City Center, where the work is mostly interior: paint, flooring and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Alpharetta

• Windward
• The Spinnakers at Windward
• Alpharetta Estates
• Downtown Alpharetta
• Avalon

Near Avalon, Wills Park, Big Creek Greenway and across the rest of Alpharetta.

Siding Replacement on Alpharetta houses

Siding replacement in Alpharetta mostly happens on the side and rear walls of 1980s and 90s houses, because so many have brick or stone on the front and lap siding everywhere else. That lap was often hardboard, and after three or four decades it swells at the bottom edges and joints and goes soft where it stays wet, especially on shaded walls under the trees and on the tall rear elevations above daylight basements. Replacing it with fiber cement is the most common job. A few later houses nearby went up in synthetic or three-coat stucco, and that is a separate conversation. The older ranches in Alpharetta Estates often carry wood siding that has simply worn out.

What usually gets missed

The hidden problem is what is behind the siding. Once failed hardboard comes off, the sheathing and framing near windows, doors and roof-to-wall corners are often stained or soft where water got in, especially where kick-out flashing was never installed. We pull a few boards at the worst spots before giving a final scope. On stucco houses, a moisture probe near windows and roof lines tells you whether this is a repair or a full replacement.