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If your U City brick home has trim, gables, or dormers past painting, let’s talk before storm season chews on them. We’ll walk the elevation, price it line by line, and handle HPC paperwork up front. Call (314) 618-8888 to get on the schedule.
Most siding calls in University City don’t start with a bare wall — they start with rotted trim on a Parkview dormer, a peeling frieze board on a Shingle Style porch near the Loop, or a soft gable end on a north-of-Olive Cape Cod. Brick still handles the elevation on most of these homes, so the fiber cement siding University City MO homeowners actually need is trim, fascia, and gable-end work that will hold paint and shrug off hail. Top Quality Exteriors replaces those wood pieces in cement board without touching the surrounding masonry.
Fiber cement is the right category for this housing stock because it resists rot, termites, and the freeze-thaw cycling that punishes wood on the shaded, tree-canopied streets around Forsyth Place and West Jackson Park. We spec pre-finished lap for factory color matches, cement board trim on gables and dormers, and matched profiles when a home sits in a historic district or a Parkview trustee subdivision. When a frame addition calls for a budget wrap, our vinyl siding in University City page covers it.
Cement board goes down over house wrap and a drainage plane, not directly against the sheathing — that detail matters on shaded lots off Forsyth or in Ames Place where wind-driven rain sits on north-facing walls for hours. We tape sheathing seams, run flashing above every window head and door head, kick water out at the gable-to-roof intersection, and hold the bottom course above finished grade or masonry with the manufacturer’s clearance. Nails are corrosion resistant and blind-nailed on lap so the fasteners don’t telegraph through the finish. On homes near the Delmar Loop or inside the Parkview trustees’ rules, we match existing exposure, reveal, and profile so an HPC recommendation isn’t held up by an obvious material mismatch. Colors come pre-finished from James Hardie, Allura, or Nichiha when the elevation allows, or we field-paint with a bonded primer for landmark trim that has to match a specific historic palette. See our James Hardie siding in University City page for brand-specific detail.
Here’s how we run a fiber cement job in University City, from the first knock at your door to the last piece of trim caulked in. We keep it methodical so the HPC review, the trustees, and your insurance carrier all end up on the same page as us.
We walk your elevation together, mark every wood piece worth replacing, and flag if HPC review or a trustee sign-off looks likely on the job. Photos and notes travel with the file.
You get a line-item quote covering board, trim, house wrap, flashing, paint, and labor costs. Pre-finished versus field-painted is spelled out. Any HPC prep is scoped in writing.
We order Hardie, Allura, or Nichiha in the profile and color you have chosen. Trim, flashing, and fasteners land at the shop first. Nothing sits in your yard soaking up weather.
Our crew pulls the failed wood, inspects the sheathing, and swaps any rot before new goes up. House wrap and flashing are tuned to the wall assembly. Brick edges stay protected.
Cement board is blind-nailed to spec, joints are flashed, and the finish paint is cut in clean. We walk the job with you before the ladders come down. A magnet sweep closes it out.
Top Quality Exteriors is a James Hardie Alliance Program Member and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor, so the material we run on your U City home comes with real manufacturer backing rather than a rack purchase from a big-box store. We carry general liability and workers’ comp on every crew, hold licenses in Missouri and Illinois, and are registered with the City of University City. Our BBB Accreditation and A+ rating are the paper trail behind that.
Founded in 2022 with over 7 years of industry experience behind the ownership, we’ve grown to more than 52 team members without loosening the crew standards that made the shop work. On a fiber cement job near Parkview or the Delmar Loop, that means the foreman on your driveway has personally cut cement board, flashed a gable-roof intersection, and matched a historic profile. Nothing gets subbed out to a stranger with a stapler and a fresh coat of shop paint.
Installed fiber cement in University City generally runs about $8 to $14 per square foot depending on the profile, whether the boards arrive pre-finished or need field paint, and how much rot repair the sheathing behind them turns up. A trim-and-gable job on a brick Cape Cod north of Olive prices very differently from full lap on the frame elevation of a Shingle Style near the Loop. We quote it line by line so you see where the money is going before signing.
The value case is simple. Cement board holds finish through the freeze-thaw cycling that eats field-painted wood every four or five years, resists the 2.25-inch hail the U City area logged in 2024, and shrugs off limb strikes off Forsyth and West Jackson Park’s mature canopy. Homeowners weighing wood-look engineered options can compare against our LP SmartSide siding in University City page. Every job carries our 36-month workmanship warranty as a firm baseline.
Every credential we carry is a commitment to quality, safety, and your peace of mind — on every project, in every state we serve.
