A low-slope bungalow in Jackson's Point, reclad end to end: new horizontal lap siding in a warm grey, with black soffit, fascia, trim and eavestrough. The house has deep overhangs, a carport and big black-framed windows.
The old cladding came off in full. Where sections of the sheathing behind it needed replacing, new OSB went in, then the whole house was wrapped in Tyvek HomeWrap with the seams and window openings taped before the first course of siding went up.
Jackson's Point is part of the Town of Georgina, and the Georgina page covers our work around the south shore of Lake Simcoe.
Sheathing first, because you only see it once
The eighth photograph is the step that never shows on the finished house. With the old cladding off, some of the sheathing behind it needed replacing, and new OSB panels were let in beside the sound boards before anything else happened.
This is the moment a reclad is either done properly or covered up. A soft patch of sheathing under new siding is still a soft patch, and it will move, hold fasteners badly and stay damp. Opening the wall is the only way to know.
Taped wrap at every opening
The whole house went into Tyvek HomeWrap, and the seventh photograph shows how the window openings were handled: the wrap folded into the opening and sealed with red sheathing tape around the frame. Windows are where walls take on water, so the wrap has to be continuous around them rather than stopping short.
Our guide to siding repair in Ontario explains why water behind the cladding, rather than the cladding itself, is what usually ends a wall's life.
Black edges on a low roofline
On a house this long and this low, the roof edge is most of what you see from the street. New black soffit and fascia run around the whole roofline, and new black eavestrough sits on the fascia in the same colour, so the edge reads as one clean line against the grey siding.
Replacing the whole edge at once, rather than one length at a time, is what keeps that line unbroken: no joint between old and new fascia anywhere on the house, and eavestrough hung on new fascia rather than on boards that are due to be replaced.
Jackson's Point and the south shore
Jackson's Point sits on the south shore of Lake Simcoe, open to the wind off the water, and that is what tests the wrap and the roof edge on a house like this. It is not our first job in the village: an earlier Jackson's Point job on Lake Dr started after an ice dam pulled the old gutters to the ground.
If your house near the lake is due for new siding or a new roof edge, get a free quote and we will look at the whole exterior first.