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Why siding in Dearborn fails at the edges first

If your siding looks sound from the street but the corners are splitting, you are seeing where a wall is most exposed. Flat panels shed water well, while the seams, corner posts and strips around windows have to seal several pieces together.

Dearborn has many older brick colonials and two story homes, and siding often covers the upper floor, dormers and gables above the brick. Those upper walls take the most wind and sun, so their trim fails early. When a corner post cracks, water runs behind it and soaks the sheathing, the boards under the vinyl. Our siding in Westland page shows what that water damage looks like.

What J channel, soffit and fascia do

You may hear these words on an estimate and wonder what you are paying for. J channel is a grooved strip that holds the cut edge of a panel around windows and doors. Soffit is the underside of your roof overhang, and fascia is the board along the eave edge where gutters hang.

Ours go in as aluminum or vinyl. A gap in any of them gives squirrels, wasps and rain a way into the attic space. Our own crew looks at all three during the visit, because a roof that overhangs a rotted fascia board cannot hold gutters properly. Related work is covered on our gutters page.

Fixing the trim without replacing every panel

A homeowner with sound panels and failing edges should not have to buy a full siding job. We replace the cracked corner posts, trim and strips, then re-seal the joints and check the sheathing behind anything we remove.

Where panels have faded or cracked too, we say so and let you choose between a repair and full replacement. If the roof edge is part of the trouble, we can look at roofing in Dearborn in the same visit. See the rest of our siding work for what we install.

Siding Questions From Dearborn Homeowners