St. Louis Vinyl Siding

In general, siding is one of the more underestimated aspects of a home. While homeowners can take it for granted, it plays an enormous role in protecting your home, creating energy-efficiency, and enhancing your home's curb appeal. If you haven't had your siding replaced and it's begun to fade, it may be time to shore up this major piece of home maintenance. In St. Louis, vinyl siding is one of the most popular and cost-effective siding materials on the market and has been for a good number of years. It's fire, pest, and scratch resistant and is durable to a number of the weathering elements common to the St. Louis area, most notably rain and wind. From Wentzville to O'Fallon, Florissant to Ballwin, and throughout the greater St. Louis area and Metro East, we've helped homeowners find the right contractor for all their siding needs.

St. Louis Vinyl Siding: New and Old
If you look around your neighborhood and see a bunch of homes with bland or faded colors and recognize the material as vinyl, you might wonder why vinyl siding in St. Louis is so popular. First, those siding materials are from a different generation, and while you can still select that type of vinyl for your home's siding, you might consider making an upgrade.

Foam-backed, baked-on coatings have been a revolution for the vinyl siding industry. The reason the old vinyl siding faded was from prolonged exposure to the sun. In some cases, the extreme temperatures of winter and summer can even cause these older forms of vinyl siding to grow brittle and break off. Not only do these new coatings and protective treatments protect the siding against signs of aging and distress, they allow for greater design options. Newer vinyl siding is available in bold colors that won't fade in just a handful of years like the old stuff. The foam backs also increase energy-efficiency and increase the warranty most manufacturers are willing to offer.

Cost of St. Louis Vinyl Siding
So, how much does this old and new vinyl siding cost in St. Louis? Well, total project costs average about $7,500-$10,000 for the cheap stuff and about $9,000-$12,000 for high-end lines of vinyl siding. These cost estimates are also for the average sized home and prices ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 are not uncommon. If this sounds steep, you should also keep in mind that you're increasing the value of your home by about 80 percent of the cost of the project. Major home improvements can also make for wise financial investments.

In the end, vinyl siding remains the cheapest and most cost effective on the market, although top-of-the-line vinyl tends to be comparable to fiber cement siding—the next pay grade up in terms of siding materials. You won't be getting the same performance as stone or brick siding and cedar siding still tends to be more coveted purely in terms of aesthetic appeal (even over vibrantly colored vinyl). Still, for overall value, vinyl siding is still the premier residential siding.

St. Louis Vinyl Siding Contractors
While vinyl siding isn't the most difficult siding to install—another reason for its low cost—it's still sufficiently complicated to discourage most DIYers. In fact, most people don't even consider installing their own siding. Moreover, like any major home improvement, success begins by finding an honest, professional contractor. This is where ServiceMagic comes in. Each and every contractor in our system has been put through a rigorous ten-step screening process. At the same time, we provide you with access to our quality-controlled, online database of customer ratings and reviews. These reviews allow you to see what other homeowners have said about their experience with individual contractors and with St. Louis siding installation in general. And, if that wasn't enough, these reviews will also create a powerful incentive for contractors to meet and exceed your expectations.

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