Builder vinyl reaching the end together
Dublin, Hilliard, New Albany and Lewis Center went up within about fifteen years of each other, largely in the same thin builder-grade vinyl. It is reaching the end of its service life across whole streets at once, which is why so much of what we quote here is a full re-side rather than a repair.
The upside is predictability: we know what is behind it before we take it off, because we have taken the same wall apart on the next street.
Wind gets behind a loose course
Open ground means the windward elevation takes sustained pressure that a sheltered wall never sees. A course that was fitted slightly loose, or a J-channel that was never properly locked, will let wind lift it and drive rain in behind.
That damage concentrates on one or two elevations rather than the whole house, which is worth knowing — sometimes the honest answer is two elevations rather than four.
The water barrier is the part that was rushed
On a fast build, house wrap goes on quickly and gets lapped the wrong way or left untaped around openings. It is invisible for twenty years and then it is the reason a wall is soft under a window.
Every re-side we do is a chance to put that right, and it is the part of the job we would rather you asked about than the colour.
Steeper pitches mean more gable to cover
The newer stock here runs to steeper roofs and larger gable ends than the older housing in our other markets, which puts more siding high up where nobody inspects it.
Those elevations weather hardest and get looked at least. We photograph them at the inspection so you can see the wall you have never actually seen.