Siding in Washington, MO
Washington sits up on the bluffs where Highway 47 crosses the Missouri River, and the wall a home presents to that river valley is the wall the weather works hardest. The channel funnels straight-line wind and spring hail up out of the bottoms, and the storm-facing side of a house off Highway 100 or out Route A takes the brunt of it. When the federally declared March 2025 storms brought large hail and 75-plus mph straight-line winds across Franklin County and eastern Missouri, the homes that lost shingles in this county often had cracked, dented, or holed siding on the same elevation. The historic brick blocks downtown near the riverfront wear their own skin, but the older frame neighborhoods up the hill and the newer subdivisions spreading south toward the bypass are where vinyl and chalky wood siding splits, warps, and finally lets water behind the wall.
We are not a metro outfit driving into Washington for a siding job. Tom Emmendorfer is based here, our second family office runs in town under the older Emmendorfer Roofing name, and the family has worked Washington homes since 1990. We sponsor Washington High School and middle-school sports, so when you call about the south wall of a house near the fairgrounds, you reach a family that watches the same Friday-night scoreboard you do. Matt Emmendorfer started this as a roofing company and added siding for one plain reason: customers wanted one crew to fix everything a storm damaged, not a roofer for the top and a stranger for the walls. So today the same in-house crew that puts the roof on wraps the siding too, on roughly 2,400 Missouri homes to date and 306 jobs in 2025. Family crews.
What our siding includes in Washington
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.
Washington walls rarely fail from one storm, they fail from the stack. River-valley wind and spring hail bruise the panels, a hard Missouri winter of freeze-thaw works moisture into every loosened seam, and the next April storm finds the opening. A 1990s subdivision wall on the south side takes that very differently than an older frame home up by downtown, which is why we start every Washington job on the wall, not in the driveway. We pull a section, look at the sheathing and house wrap behind it, and tell you what the old siding has been hiding before we quote a thing. And because Tom is in town, the storm-claim work stays local: he documents the dented and holed panels, files the claim, and meets your Washington adjuster on site to point out the damage they miss from the ground, the same trip he walks the roof.
Siding in Washington: questions
Get your Washington 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, with Tom based right here in Washington for your storm claim.
- 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