Wood Siding Repair
in Batavia, OH

On a village house, the old wood is usually the good wood. The lumber on these homes was milled from old-growth timber — tighter grain, denser, far more rot-resistant than anything on the rack today. That is why so much of it is still there after a hundred years while a board put on in 1995 has already gone soft. So the honest scope on most of these walls is that the sound boards stay and only the failed ones come off. If somebody has quoted you a full tear-off on a wall that is ninety percent solid, that is the easy version of the job, not the right one.

Two things I check on an old wall that do not come up anywhere else. The exposure — how much of each board shows below the one above — is often a dimension no lumberyard carries, because it was milled to whatever the mill was running. A stock board in the wrong width reads wrong from the street even in the right paint, so I measure your actual reveal and rip to match it. And the plugs: where blown-in insulation went in through holes cut in the siding, a plug that was never properly sealed wicks water into the middle of an otherwise sound board. That gives you rot in a neat row of circles instead of along the bottom edge — and when that is what is happening, the fix is the plugs, not the wall.

Straight talk on insurance: rot is usually not a claim — carriers exclude long-term moisture damage as maintenance, and age does not change that. Storm damage is different: wind tearing a board loose, a limb through a wall, hail splitting trim. Around Batavia, NOAA's record since 2019 is wind — 15 reports within about 3 miles, like the one in Batavia on June 21, 2020, and no hail an inch or larger — and I document storm damage the same way I document a roof.

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