The post-storm list opens the morning after every gale — measures inside 48 hours, shore-wide. (555) 021-4839 · shop@havengatesiding.example
The rain-screen wall
Ten millimetres of drained, ventilated gap between the barrier and the board, held on vertical battens with weeps at the plate. Water that defeats the lap drains out the bottom and the wall dries from both sides — one line on a quote, and the whole reason a shore wall lasts.
Rated, not hoped
Every elevation we close is engineered to a design-pressure figure — DP 65 psf as the shore minimum, tested to ASTM E330 structural performance. The number is written into your contract, not implied by the brand stamped on the board.
Stainless to the last fastener
Within a mile of the water, every nail and screw is 305-series stainless on the maker’s hot-dipped schedule. A bright-steel fastener in salt air bleeds a streak down a white wall in eighteen months, and we decline to install the stain.
Services & rates
Shore rates, by the square foot
From last season’s closed jobs between Skarrow Point and the Gullwind light. Walls measured flat and openings counted; tear-off, dumpster, wrap, flashings and scaffold to two storeys are inside every line. The number we write is the number you pay.
Fiber-cement lap, installed$10.20–13.10 / sq ft
5/16" board · 7-1/4" exposure · blind-nailed on gauge · factory finish or primed for paint
Vertical panel & batten$11.40 / sq ft
shiplap panel with a 2-1/4" batten — the gable and accent language of the newer shore houses
Rain-screen & barrier package$2.10 / sq ft
taped WRB lapped shingle-style · integrated flashings · 10 mm battens · weeps at the plate
Soffit, fascia & trim$12–17 / lin ft
ventilated fiber-cement soffit · aluminum-wrapped fascia · corner boards and casings
Storm take-off & close-infrom $1,400
gale damage removed, sheathing repaired, the house wrapped and taped watertight — same day
Impact-rated shore wall$13.80 / sq ft
Class 4 impact panel on a reinforced fastening schedule — hail and driven debris
Shore work, 2026
The March gale, before and after
Two photographs of the same street, taken six weeks apart. The first is the morning after; the second is the final walk. Nobody staged either of them — the shore does not hold still long enough.
Day 0
The shore measure
Walls measured flat, openings counted, the exposure category and design pressure read off the site and the plans. You get a fixed square-foot number and a written DP figure before a single board is ordered.
Days 1–3
Tear-off & close-in
The old skin comes off a wall at a time and sheathing is repaired where the salt got in. Then the barrier: lapped shingle-style, taped at every seam, cap-nailed, flashed at every opening. The house sleeps watertight from the first night.
Days 4–10
Hang to gauge
Starter strip on a laser, board blind-nailed to the maker’s gauge, butt joints left at 3/16" for sealant, stainless fasteners inside the salt mile. The gauge sheet stays posted on the job box where anyone can read it.
Days 11–14
Trim, seal & rate
Corners, casings and soffit runs, then every joint sealed and the closed elevation signed off against its design-pressure number. The warranty packet — ours and the maker’s — files in your name the same week.
The shore calendar
Fourteen days, weather permitting
The same sequence on every job; the only variable is what the weather does to the middle of it. A gale in week two costs three days and nothing else — by then the barrier is already the wall.
Ten years on the hang
The maker covers the board — thirty years prorated on material. The installation is ours: fastening, flashing, sealing and every caulk joint, re-done free if any of it fails inside ten years. Both papers file in your name the week of the final walk.
The gale took the west wall off on a Tuesday. Havengate had the house wrapped by Wednesday night and the new wall rated, hung and sealed before the school term ended. When the adjuster asked for the design-pressure paperwork, they had it in his format the same afternoon.
Before you ring
The shore’s fair questions
Why not vinyl on the shore?
Vinyl is a fine inland product and we will happily hang it there. On the exposed shore it embrittles in the salt sun, and a wind-driven shingle goes through it. Fiber cement is non-combustible, dimensionally dead, and rated to the pressures your wall will actually see — the premium is the insurance you can see.
Do you take the old siding off?
Always on the shore. An overlay halves the fastener rating and buries sheathing rot where the salt can keep working on it. We tear off to bare sheathing, repair what we find, photograph it, and wrap before a finish board goes up.
What is a design-pressure rating?
The uniform structural load a closed wall system has been tested to take — ASTM E330 — expressed in pounds per square foot. The shore minimum we will hang is DP 65; exposures on the point often call higher. It is on your contract because a wall that cannot quote its number is a wall nobody engineered.
How long is the house open?
A wall at a time, closed in the same day — the barrier goes on before the finish siding starts, so the weather has to beat the tape, not the boards. A whole house runs about fourteen working days, and the calendar is in writing before day one.
Can you match the profile still on the house?
Usually — the common laps and exposures are still run and we buy through two distributors. When the honest answer is no, we re-side the full elevation and say why: a patch that reads like a patch on a shore wall fails with the next gale, not eventually.
What does the ten-year warranty cover?
Everything we did: fastening, flashing, sealing, caulk joints and the rain-screen assembly. If any of it fails inside ten years we return and re-do it free. The maker’s material warranty runs beside it, up to thirty years prorated, and we file both.
Measure the house against November.
Street, town, and what the last gale did — or what you can see coming. The shore measure is free, the storm scope is written free, and the quote is a fixed number per square foot with the DP rating printed on it. shop@havengatesiding.example