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Service area

We serve Jacksonville, Florida and the surrounding area.

About Us

1. Who we are

Jacksonville Siding Contractors replaces and repairs siding on homes across Jacksonville, from century-old frame houses in Riverside to mid-century ranches in Arlington and beach houses taking salt air at Jacksonville Beach. Our owner started the service after seeing how the business boom. We also handle the windows and gutters that tie into a siding job, because most siding failures here start at those edges.

Siding in Jacksonville has two jobs: keeping out rain that blows sideways in a summer storm, and staying on the wall in hurricane-force wind. Looks matter too, but those two decide whether the job was done right.

2. Knowing this town

Jacksonville has more buildings from before 1967 than any other city in Florida, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and its older neighborhoods were shaped by one event. The Great Fire of 1901 destroyed more than 2,300 buildings downtown. Within five months the city had issued over 1,000 building permits, and a large share of the new homes went up in Riverside and Springfield. Springfield itself was spared, and most of its homes date from the 1901–1920 boom that followed. Those neighborhoods are overwhelmingly wood frame: one count of Springfield found about 1,595 wood-frame buildings against 201 masonry.

For a siding contractor, that means original wood clapboard and shingles that may have been painted dozens of times or covered over with vinyl or aluminum decades ago. When the cover comes off, the job depends on what’s underneath: sound old-growth wood worth keeping, or rotted sheathing at sills and corners where water has been sitting for years. Farther out, neighborhoods like Arlington and Mandarin grew later, with different wall systems and different problems.

3. Built for the local climate

Jacksonville’s humidity, heavy summer rain, and hurricane season from June through November all work on a home’s exterior. The most common damage isn’t siding blown off in a storm. It’s water that gets behind the siding at windows, doors, hose bibs, and light fixtures during ordinary wind-driven rain, then sits in the wall and rots the sheathing quietly. That’s why house wrap and flashing get as much attention on our jobs as the siding itself.

Wind matters too. After Hurricane Michael, researchers found that vinyl siding and soffits failed consistently even on homes built to newer codes, mostly from products and installs that weren’t matched to the wind load. Florida requires siding to carry state product approval, and the baseline standard for vinyl is about 110 mph on a wall up to 30 feet, but many products are rated much higher. Closer to the ocean, at Jacksonville Beach, we spec products rated for stronger winds and use corrosion-resistant fasteners, because salt air eats ordinary nails and trim hardware.

4. Local rules and paperwork

The City of Jacksonville has locally designated historic districts, including Springfield and Riverside Avondale. In those districts, all exterior work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and the city specifically lists siding along with roofing, windows, and doors. Some applications can be approved by city staff. Others go to the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission, which meets monthly, so the timeline is worth building in. Riverside Avondale Preservation and Springfield Preservation and Revitalization are neighborhood nonprofits that can help, but they aren’t the ones who approve the work.

Outside the historic districts, the main paperwork is the building permit and Florida product approval for the siding you choose. Jacksonville Beach has its own city government, so permits there go through a different office. Many newer subdivisions, especially in Mandarin and other suburban areas, have HOAs with rules on siding material and color. We pull the permits and can provide license and insurance paperwork for an HOA submittal.

5. How we work

• Written scope you can check line by line: what comes off, what gets repaired, how flashing is handled, and what trim and cleanup are included.
• Photos of hidden damage with a repair plan before new siding goes over it, so rot isn’t buried behind a new wall.
• Products with Florida product approval, rated for the wind load at your address, with the manufacturer’s required fasteners.
• House wrap and flashing integrated at every opening, with drainage paths kept open where the system needs them.
• Daily cleanup of nails, offcuts, and packaging, with plants and walkways protected where practical.
• Licensed and insured in Florida.

6. Our service area

• Riverside and Avondale: Jacksonville’s first historic district and a later expansion of it. Siding work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and post-1901 homes often have original wood siding and detailed trim worth keeping.
• San Marco: part of the same post-fire building boom radiating out from downtown. Older homes often need more substrate evaluation before new siding goes up.
• Mandarin: larger homes and additions with multiple rooflines, so flashing where walls meet roofs is a key part of any re-siding job.
• Arlington: a mix of mid-century homes and renovations, with varied substrates from patchwork repairs that need leveling for straight finished lines.
• Jacksonville Beach: a separate city on the ocean, where salt air and stronger wind raise the bar for product ratings and corrosion-resistant fasteners.