Exterior & Front of House · Tampa Bay

Exterior and front of house in Tampa Bay.

Five exterior jobs below. Pick the one that sounds like yours. Each page tells you the same three things, including the one most companies leave out. In Florida the outside of a house gets fixed in order. Water and wood first. Paint and the pretty door last.

Every page answers these three

01What actually decides the price

02What gets fixed before anything pretty

03When we would tell you not to do it

Priced by written scope, never by the hour.

Pick the job that sounds like yours

Five services

If two of them sound like yours, that is normal. Say so on the walkthrough and the written scope covers both under one price.

A one story stucco house with a green lawn, exterior remodel cost

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What an exterior remodel costs in Tampa Bay

Three things move an exterior job from one range to the next, and they are the same three every time. The cost page has the Tampa market range and its source. Your number comes after the walkthrough.

·How much wood is bad

·Door, siding, soffit or all of it

·Paint, or wood and paint

·One closed price, written, after a real walkthrough

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

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A white house wall with a dark front door, front door replacement

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Front door and entry door replacement

In Florida a front door is storm protection with paperwork. The approval number on the edge has to match your wind zone and the permit. We measure the opening, probe the threshold, and file the permit before the door ships.

·Florida Product Approval matched to your zone

·Permit filed before the door ships

·Threshold and subfloor probed for rot

·Set square, sealed, inspected

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Close up of white lap siding on a house wall, siding repair

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Siding repair and replacement

Siding sheds water. The flashing behind it stops water. One soft board is a morning. A wall with missing window flashing is a project. We pull the worst board before we quote, so the scope is written on what is there.

·Every wall probed at the bottom edge

·Worst board pulled before the quote

·Flashing fixed at windows and corners

·Matching board, sealed ends, painted seam

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

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Soffit and fascia repair

The fascia rots behind the gutter, where the water sits, not in the sun. The soffit is how the attic breathes, not just trim. We probe every foot first and fix the gutter that caused it. The new wood is primed on all sides before it goes up.

·Every foot probed along the gutter line

·Gutter pitch and drip edge checked first

·New wood primed on all six sides

·Vented soffit where the attic needs air

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

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Front of house remodel

Five small jobs in the right order. Rot and flashing first, then the door with its permit, then paint, then the walkway. As one written scope the front gets finished once. Out of order you paint twice and the door frames a rotten fascia.

·Wood and water fixed before anything pretty

·Door permit and approval filed the first week

·Paint after the door, never before

·Walkway and landing after the ladders are gone

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Not sure which one is yours? Start here.

Most fronts are one of these five cases. Read the line that sounds like your house. The page it points to is the one to open first. On every one of them, the order is the same. Water and rot get fixed before anything gets painted or hung.

The door sticks, leaks air, or you just hate it

That is a front door replacement. In Florida it is also a permit and a product approval number. The door has to hold in a storm. The pretty part is the last part.

There is soft wood, a gap, or a panel pulling away

Start with siding repair. One bad run can be replaced. A whole wall that is soft is a different job. The flashing behind the siding is what decides which one you have.

Something is peeling or dripping at the roof edge

That is soffit and fascia repair. Rot at the roof edge comes from water getting trapped, not from the sun. The soffit also vents your attic, so it is not just trim.

You want the whole front done, and done in order

A front of house remodel. Door, siding, soffit, paint, walkway and landing as one written scope. In the order that keeps the paint from peeling next year.

You want a number before anything else

Read the cost page. It gives you the 3 questions that put any exterior job in a range. It also shows what a low bid quietly leaves out. It also has the Tampa market range, with its source. Your number comes after the walkthrough.

The same five steps on every exterior job above.

01Walkthrough of the real space

02Written scope, item by item

03One closed price

04Milestone payments

05Final walkthrough together

Never hourly, never a verbal number. Serving Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties.

See a sample scope document

Where we work

Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties. If your town is not on this list, call and ask: the answer is often yes.

Tampa Brandon Riverview Valrico Seffner Ruskin Apollo Beach Plant City Temple Terrace Lutz St. Petersburg Clearwater Largo Seminole Palm Harbor Safety Harbor Oldsmar St. Pete Beach Wesley Chapel New Port Richey