Siding in St. Clair, MO
Re-siding a home in St. Clair means working with a family that is fifteen minutes northeast up I-44 in Union, not a St. Louis metro crew that only drives down the interstate after a hailstorm. We have wrapped exteriors across Franklin County since 1990, roughly 2,400 Missouri homes in all, and St. Clair is regular ground for us, not an out-of-county job we squeeze in. When the old siding on a home off Springfield Road or out toward the Bourbeuse River bottoms starts to chalk, crack, or pull away, a real Emmendorfer pulls a section, looks at the wall behind it, and hands you a written number before anyone orders a panel.
The siding stock in St. Clair runs the full spread, and each kind ages its own way. The 1980s and 1990s subdivisions that filled in off Highway 47 wear builder-grade vinyl that has gone brittle and faded in three decades of Missouri sun. Older homes near the original town center carry wood lap siding that splits and lets water work behind the seam. Rural acreage homes spreading south and east into the wooded Meramec and Bourbeuse watershed take the open-ground wind on their storm-facing walls. St. Clair also sits squarely in the I-44 severe-weather corridor that takes the brunt of eastern Missouri's spring storms, so when hail bruises a roof here the same storm usually dents and holes the siding underneath. We read the wall before we ever quote it.
What our siding includes in St. Clair
Re-siding a home is more than nailing new panels over old. Here is what happens once you approve the estimate.
Tear off the old siding to the sheathing
We strip the failed siding down to the wall sheathing rather than burying it under new panels. Siding over siding traps moisture, hides rot, and voids most manufacturer warranties. Tearing off is the only way to see what the storms and freeze-thaw have done to the wall.
Replace rotten sheathing and trim
With the wall open we replace soft or rotten OSB and plywood sheathing, then fix or replace failed fascia, soffit, and corner trim. We talk you through what we find while the wall is exposed, the same way we narrate a roof tear-off, so nothing gets covered up without you knowing.
Install house wrap and flashing
A proper weather-resistive barrier goes on with taped seams, and we flash every window, door, and penetration before a panel touches the wall. This is the layer that stops Missouri wind-driven rain and freeze-thaw from finding its way behind the siding.
Install your chosen siding system
We hang a complete system from LP SmartSide, Royal, CertainTeed, or Georgia-Pacific, matched to your home and budget rather than to one supplier. The brand, profile, and color are on your written estimate before we order anything.
Trim, caulk, and clean to no footprint
We finish the corners, J-channel, and trim, seal the joints, and magnet-sweep the yard for nails and cut-offs. Customers tell us our cleanup is our signature. We want to get in, do the work, and leave without a footprint on your property.
St. Clair's stretch of the I-44 corridor takes the eastern Missouri stack square on the siding. Spring and summer throw wind-driven hail at the storm-facing wall, the federally declared March 2025 storms hammering eastern Missouri with large hail and 75-plus mph straight-line winds, and a Missouri winter of freeze-thaw then works moisture behind any failed seam until the panel splits and the sheathing softens. Because we are based right up I-44 in Union, Tom Emmendorfer can be at a storm-hit St. Clair home the same day, document the dented siding and the bruised roof together, and meet your adjuster on site to walk both. One in-house family crew handles the whole exterior, so you are not chasing a roofer for the top and a stranger for the walls.
Siding in St. Clair: questions
Get your St. Clair siding estimate
A real Emmendorfer inspects your wall, names the brand and color in writing, and gives you a number that does not change. Free, no obligation, same-day storm response just up I-44 in Union.
- We walk your actual roof before we quote it
- The manufacturer is named on your written estimate
- The price you approve is the price you pay
- Tom handles your insurance claim start to finish