Siding in Mantua Township, NJ

Why a roofer takes this on

Because the serious water damage almost never turns up in the middle of an elevation. It shows where step flashing climbs a dormer cheek, behind guttering that has overflowed two winters running, or at a kick-out nobody ever bothered to fit where a slope dies into brick. All three are roofing details that happen to be made of cladding. When the same crew owns both halves of that joint, nobody gets to blame the other trade for the stain inside.

What we take on here

• Broken panels

  Split, bowed or storm-loosened boards taken out and matched as near as the material will let us.

• Wall-to-roof joints

  Step flashing and the kick-out redone where a slope dies into a wall, which is the usual leak.

• Trim and fascia

  Perished timber behind the guttering cut out properly instead of being wrapped and forgotten.

• Dormer cheeks

  Small, awkward, and responsible for far more inside damage than their size would suggest.

• Whole elevations

  A wall stripped and re-clad where patching has stopped being worth the money.

• Vented soffit

  Kept clear and working, because the roof above depends on the air that comes in here.

Matching what is already up

Cladding loses colour, so a fresh run against two decades of weathering rarely disappears entirely. We will be straight about how near the match will land before a board is ordered, and sometimes the honest answer is doing the full face instead of leaving a repair that announces itself forever. Either way the figure comes in writing first, with the patch and the fuller job priced separately where both are real options.

Doing it in the right order

If the roof is due inside a couple of years, some siding work belongs with it: the flashing goes in once, the scaffold is hired once, and the joint ends up correct. Where the roof still has ten years, we will say so and get on with the wall instead. The inspection costs nothing, so the sequence is a conversation rather than a commitment.