Drive Route 20 through Northborough and you'll pass houses that have been standing well over a century, then turn off into neighborhoods built in the 80s and 90s. That spread matters for your project. An older home might have cedar shingles or even asbestos siding buried under a later layer. A newer colonial usually has vinyl that's faded on the sunny side and green with mildew on the shady one.
Your house takes a beating from freeze-thaw cycles every winter. Water soaks into old trim, freezes, and splits it open. Gutters that clog with oak and maple leaves overflow straight onto your foundation. Heavy snow sits on the roof for days, and once it melts against a cold eave, you get ice dams pushing water under the shingles. None of that shows up from the driveway until it's expensive.
We open up a test area and check what's behind your current siding before we quote. Then we re-side in Gentek vinyl or James Hardie fiber cement, wrap fascia in white aluminum, and hang 5-inch K-style gutters with downspouts pitched to drain away from your house. Northborough is a quick trip from Auburn. Everything we install carries a 5-year workmanship warranty.
What we see on Northborough houses
- Antique farmhouses with layered siding hiding old cedar or asbestos shingle
- 1980s and 90s colonials with faded vinyl on the south face
- Heavy leaf load from mature oaks and maples clogging gutters
- Rotted window trim from years of freeze-thaw
