Irondale Siding & Trim · Port Isley & the working shore · crews off the yard line, since 1998
We hang walls the way the yard builds hulls.
Two crews off the Isley shipyard line, re-siding the working shore in fiber cement and engineered wood — wrapped, taped, flashed and hung to the maker’s gauge, priced by the square foot on a fixed quote, and closed in the same weather that ruined the last wall. Punch lists walked twice; nobody signs until the magnet sweep comes back clean.
The yard card — installed prices
Fiber-cement re-side$9.60–12.20 / sq ft
5/16" lap or panel · blind-nailed on gauge · pre-finished or primed
Board-and-batten vertical$11.10 / sq ft
shiplap panel, 2-1/4" batten — sheds the rain the shore throws sideways
Soffit & fascia runs$10–15 / lin ft
ventilated soffit · aluminum-wrapped fascia · bird- and wasp-blocked
Trim, corners & casings$9–14 / lin ft
fiber-cement profiles · butt joints at 3/16" and sealed
Storm close-in & tarpfrom $980
the house made watertight the day the call comes in
Shake & shingle accentsfrom $13 / sq ft
cedar at gables and dormers, back-primed, stainless-fastened
Every line, all-in
Tear-off, dumpster, wrap, tape, flashings, fasteners and scaffold live inside the printed number. The only way the quote moves is if you change the board — the yard does not run on surprises and neither does this page.
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The barrier is the hull
House-wrap lapped shingle-style and taped at every seam, cap-nailed so the tape outlives the truck, integrated flashing run at every opening, and a 10 mm rain-screen gap behind the board. A hull plating crew would recognise the discipline: the seams are the job, and the plate is the easy part.
Gauge, chalk and laser
Starter strip set to the laser, every course checked to the chalk, board blind-nailed to the maker’s gauge with fasteners flush to the hem — never through it. Exposure measured at three courses and written on the job wall. A shipyard plating crew would recognise the discipline; that is the compliment.
Recent hangs
The coast book
Six walls from the working shore — storm take-outs, a full re-side over a new rain-screen, and the yard office itself, which gets the weather first and proves the work yearly.
The job, in yard terms
Haul-out to sea trial
The haul-out
Tear-off & survey
The old skin comes off a wall at a time and the sheathing is surveyed like a hull plate — sound, suspect or soft, photographed and mapped before anything is ordered.
The planking
Wrap, tape & flash
The barrier goes on lapped shingle-style, taped at every seam, cap-nailed, and integrated flashing runs every opening. The house is watertight before the finish board exists — that is the hull.
The plating
Hang & trim
Board blind-nailed to gauge, joints at 3/16" for sealant, corners and casings as the walls go up. Trim is what makes a re-side read built instead of re-skinned.
The sea trial
Seal, sweep & walk
Joints sealed, magnet sweep, then the punch list walked twice — once with you, once without. Nobody signs until the second walk comes back empty.
Five years, walked twice
Fastening, flashing, sealing and every caulk joint, warranted five years and re-done free if they fail. The punch-list discipline is the whole underwriting: a crew that walks its own work twice rarely has to come back.
Denny Marchetti
Foreman, Irondale Siding & Trim
Fourteen years plating hulls in the yard before he picked up a siding gauge, and he runs the crew the same way: nothing gets hung until the barrier passes, and nothing gets signed until the sweep comes back clean. He has walked more punch lists than the street has houses.
“A hull and a wall are the same argument with water, just mounted differently. The plating is the easy part — it is the plate seams that sink ships, and it is the butt joints that ruin walls. We give the seams the respect they are owed.”
D. Marchetti · from the crew’s standing method card, taped inside every job box
Straight answers
Asked at the yard gate
The five every first call asks. If yours is not here, the crew line at the bottom of the page runs seven to five, shore-wide, ladder included.
Why no subcontractors?
Because the warranty is only as good as the worst hanger on the wall. Yard crews train together for years before they plate independently; a rotating sub cannot carry that. Every person on your wall is on our payroll and under our five-year paper.
What does the per-square-foot price include?
Tear-off, dumpster, barrier and tape, flashings, fasteners, delivery and scaffold — the printed number times the measured wall. The only extra in nine hundred jobs has been sheathing rot the tear-off uncovered, quoted by the sheet before it is replaced.
How fast can you close in a storm wall?
Same day, shore-wide, from $980 — tarp, wrap and tape to a watertight shell. The finish hang is then scheduled like any other job, from a dry house, which is how it should be done and rarely is.
Can you work through the winter?
Tear-off and barrier work happens in anything short of a gale warning; finish hanging needs the maker’s temperature window for sealant and paint. The calendar we write accounts for both, which is why ours is the one that holds.
What happens to the yard and the plantings?
Tarps under every tear, planks under every dumpster, magnet sweeps daily and a blower pass at gentle on the final day. The bed along the north wall gets photographed before the first ladder goes up — the crew calls it the flower manifest.
Get on the calendar
Storm or planned, the ladder comes either way. The measure is free, the quote is a fixed number per square foot, and the schedule is written before day one. crew@irondalesiding.example