Two Oaks Siding Yard · Dunmore Flats, Priebe Crossing & Cabot Bend · Since 1981
Every wall we sell, we weigh first.
Two Oaks quotes out of the yard the way a scale house weighs grain: board count per lift, square feet measured flat, fastener schedule off the manufacturer’s wind table, haul-off weighed at the county scale. The quote you sign carries those numbers on its second page — and the wall we hang agrees with it.
The yard’s record, second
Filed walls
Six walls from the flats, photographed at the walk — the newest this spring, the oldest in 1998, because a ledger is only as good as its oldest entry.
Services & rates
The yard card, weighed
Rates off last season’s closed files across the flats — walls measured flat, openings counted, and every line inside it: tear-off, dumpster, wrap, flashings, fasteners, scaffolding, the sweep. The card is priced the way the scale house weighs: what the wall measures is what the invoice says, to the board.
Fiber-cement lap, installed$9.05–11.50 / sq ft
5/16″ Hardie, 6.25″–8.25″ exposure, blind-nailed, ColorPlus or primed for site paint
Insulation-backed panel, installed$11.25–13.60 / sq ft
Continuous insulated core, R-3–R-5 at the stud face, track-hung, weighed per lift
Engineered-wood lap or panel$7.05–8.50 / sq ft
Treated strand core, primed, two site-sprayed coats
Cedar & shake accentsfrom $13.75 / sq ft
Western red at gables and dormers, stainless within a mile of weather
Trim, casing & corners$9–13 / lin ft
4/4 and 5/4 cement, joints left at 3/16″ and sealed, counted per piece
Wrap, flash & rain-screen$1.85 / sq ft
Lapped and taped WRB, integrated flashings, 10 mm battens, screened weeps
Why weigh a wall
The second page is the point
An estimate rounds in the estimator’s favor. A weighed quote does the opposite: board count per lift off the distributor’s tally, square feet measured flat, a fastener schedule lifted from the manufacturer’s 130 mph table, and the haul-off ticket from the county scale stapled to the file. When a warranty auditor measures a Two Oaks wall against a Two Oaks quote, the two agree — and that sentence is the entire business model.
Five years, audited against the file
Fastening, flashing, sealing and every caulk joint — re-done free inside five years, and the audit runs against the weighed quote in your file, not against a memory. The manufacturer carries the board to thirty; we carry the hang; the folder carries the proof.
How it goes
The sequence, counted
The same five counts on every job, printed on the schedule before day one — the only variable is the weather, and the calendar prints that in as buffer.
Weigh the wall
Measured flat, openings counted, board count per lift, fastener schedule drawn off the wind table — before the quote, not after it.
Close it in
Tear-off to sheathing, repairs priced ahead, wrap lapped, taped, cap-nailed, flashed at every opening. Watertight by nightfall, every night.
Hang the count
Starter to a laser, blind-nailed on gauge, exposure checked every course — 6.25, 7.25 or 8.25, as ordered and as invoiced.
Seal the joints
Butt joints cut clean, left at 3/16″, sealed flexible. Tight joints crack; drawn joints move with forty-one seasons of flats weather.
File the papers
Magnet sweep, touch-up kit, both warranties registered the same week — and the file closed with the scale ticket and the gauge sheet inside.
The quote had a line for fasteners. A line, for fasteners. My brother the county inspector read it twice and told me to sign before the yard came to its senses. Fourteen days later the wall was up, exactly as weighed, and the haul-off ticket was stapled to my copy of the invoice.
The ledger, in figures
Before you open a file
Questions with numbers for answers
The five every first call into the yard reaches. If yours is not here, the scale house line runs seven to five, flats-wide.
Why print a fastener schedule on the quote?
Because it is the one number that decides whether the warranty pays. Type, count and placement per board for a 130 mph rating, lifted straight from the manufacturer’s table — printed on page two, audited against after storms, and the reason a Two Oaks claim has never been declined for installation.
Why refuse overlays, even when asked?
Because the arithmetic fails: an overlay nails new board to old, traps moisture against the sheathing, and voids the fastener schedule the finish warranty stands on. We have been asked in each of forty-one seasons, and the answer is filed under no, with the manual’s page number beside it.
What does weighing the haul-off prove?
What came off the house and what went to the landfill — matched against the tear-off line you were quoted. It keeps the dumpster honest, it keeps the county scale busy, and once a season it catches a lift that shipped heavy before it becomes an argument at the door.
Is the insulated panel worth the line it is on?
On a river-facing wall, the figures that matter are R-3 to R-5 continuous at the stud face and a quieter first winter. On a sheltered wall we print both numbers and take the smaller sale — the ledger keeps us honest, and the ledger is the point.
How do storm scopes work from the yard?
We photograph every strike from our ladder, count the broken boards, and write the scope in the adjuster’s format — measurement, cause, code, line by line. You file it, we meet the adjuster at the wall, and nothing is torn off until the number is agreed. The count does the arguing.
Hail in June, scope in the adjuster’s format by Friday, full elevation agreed without a supplement. The counted boards — forty-one — carried the claim, and the file closed with the scale ticket stapled to it. That number did all the arguing.
Third generation on the yard, same answer three generations running: tear it off, wrap it, hang it on gauge. Our 1998 hang is in their gallery with its original caulk line, and our new garage matched it to the board.
Measures inside 48 hours · storm scopes inside 24 · the yard opens seven to five, Saturdays to noon · (555) 046-9153 · scale@twooaksyard.example
Weigh the wall
Town, wall age, and whether this is want, wear or weather. The measure is free, the weighing is free, and the quote arrives with its second page already printed — board count, fastener schedule, scale ticket to follow. scale@twooaksyard.example