On older housing a siding repair starts with a question that newer houses do not raise: what is actually on the wall, and what is underneath it.
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Akron has the oldest housing of any market this company covers. The median home was built in 1954 and 60 percent of them went up before 1960, on Census Bureau figures set out on our housing data page.
A house that age has usually been re-clad at least once, and sometimes more than once, so what a repair opens is rarely the original wall. Whatever is there now sits over something older, and the layers decide the job: how the panel is fastened, whether there is a flat surface behind it, whether a patch can sit flush. None of that can be settled from the ground, which is why a quote on an older house is worth less over the phone than it is after someone has had a panel off.
NAHB’s study of how long home components last rates siding to go the life of the house but exterior trim at about 25 years and paint at 15 or more. On housing of this age the trim has been round that cycle twice.
So a repair here is often as much a trim job as a siding one, and the fascia, the corner boards and the surrounds are where to look first. Water gets into a wall at its edges and openings far more often than through the middle of a panel.
83 percent of Akron homes were built before 1980, so almost any repair in the city is on a house old enough for the EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting rule, which covers homes built before 1978 and requires a certified firm for work disturbing painted surfaces. On a house of this vintage, assume it applies and ask how the firm is set up for it.
The cycle of repainted trim on an older house is exactly the kind of surface the rule is written about.
The price benchmark for siding, with no painting afterward and easy panel repairs.
James Hardie and equivalent boards: heavier, painted, and more to buy and install than vinyl.
Engineered wood lap siding, such as LP SmartSide, costing less than fiber cement.
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