Siding Replacement in Woodstock, GA

Siding Replacement for Woodstock homes

The core of the stock is the Towne Lake build-out that began in the late 1980s: Eagle Watch, developed by Arvida around an Arnold Palmer golf course and filled in through the early 1990s, then Towne Lake Hills around the Arthur Hills course that opened in 1994, with Wyngate, Rose Creek and the rest following. These are mostly two-story traditional houses, often brick or stone on the front with lap siding on the sides and rear, set on rolling, wooded ground that drains toward Noonday Creek and the Little River arm of the lake. That grade is why so many have full or partial basements, some daylight or walkout, a lot of them still unfinished, and why tall rear decks are common. Downtown is the other end of the range: the Dean House from 1875, the 1894 Century House and early-1900s frame houses along streets like Rope Mill Road, now ringed by the townhomes and small-lot houses of the newer downtown build-out. The old houses mean wood clapboard, plaster and old paint layers; the new ones mean early repaints and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Woodstock

• Downtown Woodstock
• Towne Lake
• Eagle Watch
• Towne Lake Hills
• Wyngate
• Rose Creek

Near Elm Street Cultural Arts Village (Woodstock Arts), Olde Rope Mill Park, Dupree Park and across the rest of Woodstock.

Siding Replacement on Woodstock houses

Siding replacement in Woodstock is mostly about the sides and backs of the Towne Lake houses, where the fronts are brick or stone and the rest is lap siding put up in the late 1980s and 1990s. That builder siding has had three decades of shade, sprinkler spray and runoff, and the boards nearest the ground and around the decks give out first. Owners usually replace it with fiber cement and keep the masonry fronts. The tall rear walls over walkout basements make it a bigger job than the floor plan suggests, with staging on the downhill side. Downtown, the older frame houses have wood clapboard that is often worth repairing instead, and the newer townhomes rarely need siding work yet.

What usually gets missed

The miss is replacing siding without fixing what rotted it. Where boards failed around a deck, a window or the base of the wall, the sheathing and framing behind them are often soft too, and new siding over bad sheathing just hides the damage. We strip a section, check the sheathing and the flashing at windows, doors and the deck connection, and correct the water path before new siding goes on. The seam where siding meets the brick front needs its own flashing detail.