Wood and cedar
Wood Clapboard & Cedar Shake in Vineland, NJ
An older house with wood clapboard, or cedar shingles that are splitting and cupping? Call and speak with an independent contractor who repairs and replaces wood siding around Vineland.
Repairs, replacements and new siding. You speak with an independent local contractor and decide for yourself.
Repair first, where the wood allows
Wood clapboard and cedar shingles can be repaired a piece at a time. Split boards are cut out and new ones fitted to the same exposure; cupped or missing shingles are slipped out and replaced. On an older farmhouse or a porch-front house, that is often the way to keep the look and the cost in proportion.
When a wall has gone, with soft boards, paint failing everywhere and water behind it, replacement makes sense. The choice then is real wood again, or a substitute such as fiber cement or engineered wood lap, or shake-look panels on the gables. Scallop or fish-scale shingles in the gables are a detail worth keeping where the house has them.
Checklist
Questions for a wood siding job
- Which boards or shingles can be saved, and which must go?
- Will new wood be primed on all sides before it goes up?
- Cedar left to weather, stained or painted?
- How will scallop or decorative shingles in the gables be matched or kept?
- If the house is in a historic district, what does the local commission require?
Older houses in the area
Farmhouses outside Vineland's center and porch-front houses in the older streets of Bridgeton and Millville are where wood clapboard and shingles are still found. Many have been covered by later siding, and a re-siding job sometimes uncovers the original boards.
Bridgeton's construction office offers an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness among its forms (city page). If your house is in a locally designated historic district, ask the town before changing siding materials.
Questions
Wood Clapboard & Cedar Shake: what people ask
Should I replace cedar shingles with vinyl shake panels?
It depends on what you value: cedar can be repaired and refinished, while panels need no stain. Some shake-look panels are polypropylene, and in New Jersey replacing polypropylene siding is not ordinary maintenance, so a permit may be needed.
Why are my cedar shingles cupping and splitting?
Usually weather and age, sometimes moisture from behind. A contractor should check the wall and the flashing before replacing them.
Can the scallop shingles in my gable be kept?
Often. Gables get less weather than the walls below, and sound shingles can be cleaned and refinished. Replacements can be cut to match where pieces are missing.
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Other siding work
- Siding ReplacementOld cladding off, the wall checked and wrapped, new siding and trim on.
- Siding RepairCracked, loose or blown-off panels and soft wood behind them, fixed without re-siding the house.
- Vinyl SidingLap, Dutch lap and vertical vinyl, hung loose enough to move with the seasons.
- Fiber Cement SidingHeavy, paintable boards cut with dust control and installed to the maker's clearances.
- Engineered Wood SidingLighter than fiber cement, painted like wood, installed to strict edge and clearance rules.
- Insulated Siding & House WrapFoam-backed panels, the wrap underneath and the flashing that keeps water out.
- Additions & New BuildsNew walls wrapped, flashed and sided, and new siding blended into old.
- Storm & Wind DamagePanels torn off by wind, holes from debris and the water that got in behind them.
- Soffit, Fascia & TrimSoffit, fascia and corner trim done with the siding, so the whole wall is finished.
Siding cracked, loose or worn out?
Talk to an independent siding contractor who works around Vineland
One call connects you with an independent siding contractor working in Vineland, Millville, Bridgeton, Newfield and Franklinville. Ask them to look at the walls and put the repair or the new siding in writing.
Cracked panels, a wall that let water in, or siding that has simply had its day?
Your call goes to an independent siding contractor serving the Vineland area who takes on repairs as well as full re-siding jobs.
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