Professional Siding Services in Truro, MA

Siding in Truro: what's different here

Truro is the least developed town on Cape Cod, with most of its land inside the National Seashore and its homes scattered across moors, bluffs and hollows. There is almost no tree cover, so Truro houses take wind from every direction and salt from both the Atlantic and Cape Cod Bay. Bay-side cottage colonies at Beach Point and North Truro have some of the most weather-beaten exteriors on the Cape. Truro is about 65 minutes from Centerville; we schedule these projects as continuous blocks so the crew stays until the work is complete.

Cedar shingle siding on Truro homes weathers to silver within a season. We install with stainless fasteners and a rain-screen gap so wind-driven salt water drains instead of soaking the wall.

Siding is the skin that keeps Cape Cod weather out of your framing. When it fails, the damage is rarely visible until the sheathing behind it has rotted. On the Cape, siding fails for predictable reasons: salt air corrodes ordinary fasteners, wind-driven rain finds gaps at windows and corners, and shaded walls stay damp and grow mold. We replace a lot of siding that was installed without housewrap, without flashing, or with nails that rusted through in a decade.

Our siding work always starts with the wall assembly. We strip to the sheathing, replace anything rotted, install housewrap and flashing at every window, door and corner, and then install the siding itself with stainless or coated fasteners. We work in white cedar shingles, fiber cement, vinyl and clapboard, and we help with historic district review where the town requires it. The result is a wall that sheds water, breathes properly and looks right for the neighborhood.