Our siding is cedar, original to a 1980s house, and it's reached the point where I'm patching something
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Our siding is cedar, original to a 1980s house, and it's reached the point where I'm patching something every spring. A few boards near the bottom are visibly deteriorated and the paint doesn't hold anywhere anymore. I'm trying to decide between another round of repairs and biting the bullet on a full replacement. What tips people over into replacing, and what are the realistic material options around here? We're planning to stay in this house long term, so I'm weighing a bigger one-time expense against the annual cost and hassle of patching something every single spring.
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The tipping point is usually when you're repairing multiple areas per year and the substrate behind the siding starts showing damage, which sounds close to where you are. At that point replacement costs less over ten years than the running repairs plus the hidden decay. Options here are fiber cement, engineered wood, or cedar again if you want to keep the look and accept the maintenance. Fiber cement is what most people in this climate land on. We used www.igotrot.com/ for a full siding replacement and they were running a promotion at the time. Ask what they find once the old siding is off, that's where budgets move.
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