Gritstone Exteriors · Drayton, Milner Flats & Slate Run · Storm scopes are our native language
New skin. Same address.
Gritstone re-sides the working half of the county — hail take-outs, wind-peeled gables, forty-year aluminum finally done. Fiber cement or engineered wood, wrapped, taped and hung to the manufacturer's gauge, priced by the square foot on a fixed quote. Storm scopes written in the adjuster's format, from our ladder, before anyone signs anything.
Services
What we hang
01
Fiber-cement re-side — $9.40–11.90 / sq ft
James Hardie lap or panel, 5/16", blind-nailed on gauge, pre-finished or primed for paint. The default wall in hail country: it does not dent, it does not feed anything, and it carries a thirty-year material ticket.
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Engineered wood — $7.10–8.60 / sq ft
LP SmartSide lap and panel, treated strand core, primed, painted two coats on site. It cuts and handles like lumber, ships in longer lengths, and on a sheltered wall it reads like anything else on the street.
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Soffit, fascia & trim — $10–15 / lin ft
Ventilated soffit runs, aluminum-wrapped fascia, fiber-cement corner boards and casings, every opening sealed to the maker's detail. The millwork is what makes a re-side read finished instead of re-skinned.
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Storm & hail restoration — scope written free
Wind and hail take-outs photographed from the ladder and written in the adjuster's own format — measurement, cause, code, line by line. Seven hundred scopes in, and the tear-off still does not start until the number is agreed and the check is scheduled.
What we do
Three walls, up close
The wrap is the system
A re-side is a weather job wearing a siding job's clothes. House-wrap lapped shingle-style and taped at every seam, cap-nailed so the tape outlives the truck, integrated flashing at every opening, and a 10 mm rain-screen gap so the wall drains and dries from both sides. The board is the easy part.
Hung on gauge, not on vibes
Starter strip set to a laser, blind-nailed to the manufacturer's gauge, fasteners flush to — never through — the nail hem, 3/16" butt joints left open for caulk. The gauge sheet stays posted on the job wall, because a warranty audit measures to it, and so do we.
Storm take-outs, done once
June hail in Slate Run does not half-damage a wall; it writes the scope for you. We photograph the shattered board and the bruised wrap, match profile and color from the distributor, and hang the full elevation — patch-and-paint is how the same wall gets bought twice.
The outfit in figures
Drayton says
The neighborhood weighs in
The June storm chewed our west elevation to pulp. Gritstone was on the ladder the next morning with a camera, wrote the scope in the format the adjuster actually reads, and the check covered the full wall — not the patch the first outfit proposed. Hung and painted in nine days.
They had the whole house wrapped before a single board went up, and then it rained for two days straight. Water ran off the wrap into the dirt like the house was wearing a raincoat. Not one drop inside — that is when I understood what I was paying for.
The adjuster wanted paint and a handshake. Gritstone photographed every split board from the ladder, wrote the scope to code, and met the adjuster on the roof. Full re-side, agreed number, no supplements, no surprise invoice. That is the whole review.
The five we hear first
Before you call
The five questions on every first call into the shop. If yours is not here, the line at the bottom of this page runs seven to five, county-wide, ladder included.
How does a storm claim actually work?
We inspect free, photograph the damage from the ladder, and write the scope in the adjuster's format — measurement, cause, code, line by line. You file it, we meet the adjuster on the wall, and nothing gets torn off until the number is agreed. The deductible is yours; the argument is ours.
What does the per-square-foot number include?
Tear-off, dumpster, house-wrap and tape, flashings, fasteners, delivery and scaffolding — all of it. The quote is a fixed number per square foot times the measured wall, and the only way it moves is if you change the board. Nobody has ever shown us a competitor's quote that works that way.
How long is the house open?
A wall at a time, closed in the same day. The wrap goes onto bare sheathing before the finish siding starts, so the weather has to beat the tape, not the boards. A typical whole house runs two to three weeks, weather permitting — and the schedule is in writing before day one.
Can you match the siding still on the house?
Usually — the common profiles and colors are still run and we buy from two distributors to widen the net. When the honest answer is no, we re-side the full elevation and tell you why: a patch that reads like a patch costs you twice, once in looks and once at resale.
What about the yard and the plantings?
Tarps under every tear, magnet sweeps at the end of each day and a final pass with the blower set to gentle. Dumpsters sit on planks, never bare on the drive, and the flower bed along the north wall is the first thing we photograph before we start.
Storm inspections within 24 hours, county-wide · (555) 015-8890 · build@gritstoneexteriors.example
Get the wall measured
Storm or planned, the ladder comes either way. The measure is free, the storm scope is written free, and the quote is a fixed number per square foot before you commit to a board. build@gritstoneexteriors.example