Exterior Services

The roof is the part everyone thinks about. It is also only one of the surfaces keeping weather out of a house. Siding, gutters, trim, paint, and the structures and flatwork around the outside all take the same Texas sun and the same hail, and most of our exterior work happens alongside a re-roof or a storm restoration rather than as a job on its own.

Siding

We replace siding, including sections cracked or holed by hail and panels pulled loose by wind. Damage on one elevation is common — a storm comes in from one direction and the north or west face takes all of it — and replacing only what was hit is usually the right call, with the caveat that older siding can be hard to match. We will tell you honestly if we think a partial replacement is going to look like a patch.

Behind the siding matters as much as the siding itself. Where water has been getting in, we open it up, deal with what is wet or rotten, and close it back up properly.

Gutters

A gutter has one job: take the water the roof sheds and put it somewhere away from the foundation. When it stops doing that, the damage does not show up on the gutter. It shows up on the fascia board behind it, on the siding below it, in the flowerbed that has been washing out for two years, and eventually at the foundation.

We replace gutters and downspouts, and we deal with the fascia and trim behind them when water has already gotten in — replacing a run of gutter over rotten fascia just hangs new metal on bad wood.

Hail dents gutters and downspouts badly, and dented soft metal is often the clearest ground-level evidence that a roof took hail too. If your gutters are pocked, get the roof looked at.

Decks, pergolas, awnings and fences

Outdoor structures in North Texas take a beating from the sun more than anything else. Build them properly, seal them, and they last. Build them cheaply and the first August finds every shortcut.

Decks. New builds and restoration of existing decks. Restoration usually means replacing failed boards and any framing or posts that have gone soft, resetting or replacing hardware, then cleaning and sealing the whole surface so the new and old weather together.

Pergolas. Freestanding or attached, including over patios and outdoor kitchens. A pergola is mostly a structural problem disguised as a decorative one — posts have to be set right, beams have to be sized for the span, and the connection to the house has to be flashed so it is not a place for water to sit against the wall.

Awnings. Covered outdoor structures where you want actual shade and rain protection rather than the filtered light a pergola gives.

Fences. New fence construction, repair of damaged sections, and staining. Wind takes fence sections down here regularly, and a fence that lost panels in a storm is often part of a larger storm restoration rather than a job on its own.

We start by walking the space with you and talking through what you actually want to use it for, because that drives the size and the layout more than any catalogue picture does. Then we agree the design, the materials and where things sit relative to the house, the drainage and any existing concrete. Any structure with posts in the ground needs those set in concrete and set correctly, which we handle ourselves. If the project needs a slab or a patio extension underneath, that is in-house too.

Utility locates and any permit or HOA approval requirements are part of the planning. We will tell you what is needed before anything gets dug.

Concrete

Concrete is unforgiving work. It is right on the day it is poured or it is wrong for twenty years, and the difference is almost entirely in the preparation nobody sees.

Before anything is poured, the base has to be right. That means excavating to the correct depth, compacting the subgrade, and setting forms to the grade you actually want — which for anything next to a house means water running away from the foundation, not toward it. North Texas clay moves with moisture, and a patio that drains back against the slab is a problem you will be dealing with for years.

Then reinforcement, sized for what the slab has to carry: a walkway and a driveway apron are not the same pour. Then placement, screeding, floating, and the finish — broom finish for traction on drives and patios, or a smoother finish where it makes sense. Control joints get cut in at proper spacing so the concrete cracks where we put the joint instead of somewhere across the middle.

We pour patios and patio extensions, walkways and sidewalks, driveways, drive extensions and approaches, slabs for sheds, outdoor kitchens, pergolas and small additions, and commercial flatwork.

Weather runs the schedule. Concrete does not get poured into rain, and extreme heat or a freeze changes how it cures, so pours get moved when the forecast says to. After the pour, the slab needs time before it is loaded. Foot traffic comes first, vehicles considerably later. We will tell you the timing for your specific pour before we leave the site.

Some cracking is normal in any slab as it cures and as the ground moves underneath it. Control joints are there to manage where that happens. Anyone who tells you a slab will never crack is telling you what you want to hear.

Exterior painting, stain and seal

Paint is the last thing that goes on and the first thing anyone notices. It is also, on a Texas exterior, a genuine piece of maintenance rather than decoration — the coating is what is keeping sun and water off the wood.

Exterior painting is mostly preparation. The coat itself goes on quickly; what determines whether it lasts is what happened before it. We wash the surfaces, scrape and sand what is failing, replace or fill wood that is too far gone, caulk the joints that have opened up, and prime bare material before topcoat.

Trim, fascia, soffit, garage doors, front doors, shutters and porch columns are where sun and water do the most damage, and they are usually the reason a house looks tired even when the field colour is still fine.

We repaint whole exteriors, and we do partial work where a storm restoration has left new siding or new fascia that needs to match everything around it.

Fences, decks, pergolas and outdoor structures need stain rather than paint. Cedar in particular grays quickly here if it is left bare. We stain and seal new structures we build, and we re-stain existing ones after cleaning and prepping the wood.

Weather runs the exterior schedule — we do not spray or brush into rain or high wind, and Texas summer heat limits what can go on a west-facing wall in the afternoon. That occasionally moves a day.

Doing it with the roof

Most of our exterior work happens as part of a larger job — a storm restoration or a re-roof. That is the efficient way to do it. The crew is already on site, the scaffolding and ladders are already set, and the roof, gutters, siding and paint all get finished as one project instead of four visits spread over a season.

When to call

Call if your gutters overflow at the corners in a normal rain, if you see peeling paint or soft wood on the fascia behind them, if siding is cracked, buckled or missing panels, if a deck feels soft or bouncy underfoot, if a fence has lost sections to wind, if you have a drive that is spalling or a walkway that has become a trip hazard, or if a hailstorm has been through and you want the exterior documented before you file a claim.

Give us a call or send a message through the contact form, and we will get back to you the same business day.