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Exposed sheathing won’t wait for a dry forecast, so if storm damage left a wall open at your Richmond Heights home, call (314) 618-8888 now. Our 24/7 Emergency Response line is staffed, and we’ll help you cover the wall and plan the repair.
When the May 16, 2025 tornado ripped panels off a gable, or a falling limb split open a dormer wall, the sheathing behind the siding is suddenly exposed to every rain that follows. Emergency siding tarping in Richmond Heights, MO covers that open wall fast, so water stays out of the insulation and framing while the permanent repair gets scheduled. Homeowners call Top Quality Exteriors when the wind has passed and a bare patch of house wrap is flapping above the brick line. Wet insulation and swollen sheathing can show up within days.
On a brick home, the walls that fail are the ones that aren’t masonry: gables, dormers, soffit, fascia, and trim in Hampton Park, Berkshire, and Maryland Terrace. We cover the opening with a heavy-duty tarp fastened to solid framing, then photograph the damage for your adjuster. Our crews plan around the steep driveways and tight curbs of older Mid County streets. If the cladding underneath is torn or cracked rather than gone, the next move is siding repair in Richmond Heights, and the tarp protects the wall until then.
The EF3 tornado that tracked through Richmond Heights on May 16, 2025, with winds near 150 mph, dropped uprooted trees on roofs and walls from Hampton Park to the Big Bend and Hanley corridor, and it peeled siding, soffit, and fascia loose in spots no ladder had touched in decades. The St. Louis metro also sits in one of the country’s most active hail corridors, with three to five significant hail events a year, so wall damage rarely arrives alone. For a wall tarp we cut heavy-duty polyethylene to the opening, lap it over intact house wrap so water sheds outward, and pin it under lath strips screwed into studs or solid sheathing, never into crumbling mortar joints. Narrow streets and steep driveways in 63117, 63143, and 63144 mean we stage ladders and materials before anyone climbs. If a limb also holed the roof above, our emergency roof tarping in Richmond Heights work can cover that plane too, so water can’t run down the wall behind the tarp.
Here is how an emergency siding tarp call runs in Richmond Heights, from the first ring on our 24/7 Emergency Response line to a written plan for the permanent repair. Every step is built around keeping water out of your wall, start to finish.
Call our 24/7 Emergency Response line and tell me what you see. I ask for your address, which wall is open, and where water is getting in. Then we line up a crew and plan access.
I check the exposed elevation from the ground first. Gables, dormers, and soffit get a look for missing panels and wet sheathing. Safety on steep drives and curbs comes first.
We cut a heavy-duty tarp to the opening and lap it over sound house wrap. Lath strips fasten it to framing, never to brick or mortar. The wall sheds rain the moment we finish.
Before we leave, I photograph every torn panel, bare patch, and wet spot. Each shot is dated for your claim file. Your adjuster gets a clear record of exactly what the storm did.
We walk you through the photos and the next move. Siding repair, matched replacement, or both depends on what we find behind the tarp. You get a written scope of work to review.
Top Quality Exteriors is an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor and a James Hardie Alliance Program Member, founded in 2022 with 7+ years of industry experience on our team. We’re licensed in Missouri and carry general liability and workers’ compensation insurance, which matters with a ladder against a wet, tornado-damaged gable. Our emergency line is staffed after hours, while the office keeps regular hours of 8 to 5 on weekdays and 9 to 3 on Saturdays.
A tarp is protection, not a repair, and we say so up front. The permanent fix carries our 36-month workmanship warranty, with up to a lifetime warranty available on selected products, and manufacturer warranties vary by the siding installed. For Richmond Heights homeowners, that means one team that can seal the wall tonight and rebuild it with James Hardie fiber cement, vinyl, or matched trim once your adjuster signs off. Ask us what the repair may need from the city.
The cost to tarp a wall depends on how much sheathing is exposed, how high the opening sits, and how hard the driveway makes it to set a ladder, so we quote after seeing the damage rather than from a phone description. Homeowners policies often treat emergency protection as a covered step after sudden wind or hail damage, but your policy language controls, so confirm it with your carrier. Keep our dated photos and your receipts together for the claim.
Check your policy for its filing deadline and start the claim early, while the damage is fresh. Photos taken before and after the tarp goes on show the adjuster exactly what the storm did to the wall and which sections still need repair. Once the wall is covered, storm damage siding repair in Richmond Heights is the next step, and we can attend the adjuster’s inspection. Hearth and GreenSky financing is available for the portion insurance doesn’t cover.
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