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Give us a call at (314) 618-8888 or send a note through the site and we’ll set a free James Hardie siding walk-through on your Des Peres home. We bring the ColorPlus sample tray, measure elevations, and hand you a written scope the same day.
Custom Traditional homes off Des Peres Road, the Enclave at Greenbriar townhomes, and Wyndemere Addition custom builds carry the square footage and finish level where James Hardie siding in Des Peres genuinely pays off over cheaper cladding materials. At Top Quality Exteriors, we install HardiePlank lap, HardieShingle staggered edge, and HardieTrim with the ColorPlus baked-on finish so your walls shrug off hail, straight-line wind, and freeze-thaw without the warping, swelling, or paint fade that plague older wood or vinyl cladding.
As a James Hardie Alliance Program Member, we hand-nail every plank to the stud, seal every butt joint with color-matched caulk, and stand behind the labor with a 36-month workmanship warranty layered on top of Hardie’s 30-year non-prorated product warranty. Most Des Peres re-clads also pair Hardie with a fresh drainage plane, premium house wrap, and rebuilt soffit and fascia detail — see our siding installation in Des Peres page for the full scope of exterior work we handle here across the city year-round.
Fiber cement is a five-ingredient mix — Portland cement, sand, cellulose fiber, water, and additives — pressed and cured into a plank that behaves nothing like wood or vinyl when a Des Peres storm rolls through. On the May 16, 2025 EF3 that tore through the West County band, homes wearing HardiePlank came out of it with far less impact damage than neighbors clad in aging hardboard or thin vinyl. That’s the payoff of a HZ5 product engineered for the freeze-thaw and humidity swings of USDA zone 6b: no swelling in the July soak, no brittle cracking in a January cold snap, no woodpecker holes or carpenter-ant tunnels. We spec HardieWrap house wrap under every install, flash windows and doors with butyl tape, and leave a proper 6-inch clearance from grade — the exact detailing James Hardie’s warranty language calls for. Homeowners cross-shopping alternatives often compare it against fiber cement siding in Des Peres generally, and Hardie remains the premium leader in the category.
Every James Hardie job in Des Peres follows the same five-step playbook we’ve refined on Harwood Hills Colonial Revivals and Enclave at Greenbriar townhomes. It keeps the warranty airtight and the finish crisp on close-up inspection.
I walk the whole exterior, log every failing plank and rotted trim run, and photograph substrate conditions. You get a written scope the same day. No pressure or upsell games here.
We open the HardieBoard sample tray on your porch in real Des Peres light. You pick a ColorPlus color and lap width that suits the block. Trim and gable details get sketched too.
Old cladding comes off in sections so the wall is never left fully exposed. We check every stud bay, sheathing seam, and window pan for rot damage. Findings get shown to you first.
HardieWrap goes up, windows get butyl-taped, and planks are hand-nailed at the 3/4-inch overlap. Joints land on studs with H-flash behind. ColorPlus paint stays factory sharp.
You and I walk the elevations together and check caulk lines, reveals, and downspout returns. Punch items get fixed on the spot before we go. Then the 30-year warranty is filed.
St. Louis sits inside one of the country’s busiest hail corridors — the metro logs three to five significant hail events every year, and Des Peres has caught its share, including the April 24, 2010 tornado centered in the city. Vinyl cracks under a 1.5-inch stone at 45 degrees or colder; hardboard swells and delaminates once its paint film breaks. HardiePlank is Class 4 impact-rated, the top FM 4473 tier, so those stones leave dings you can’t see from the drive.
That toughness matters more on the newer luxury infill than anywhere else in Des Peres. Wyndemere Addition custom homes at 3,000 to 4,200 square feet and the $1.6M-plus Enclave at Greenbriar townhomes carry the elevation area where a cheap re-clad ages badly and drags resale down. Hardie holds a factory finish 15 years, carries a 30-year non-prorated product warranty, and keeps the edge line sharp the way custom architecture asks for. It’s the correct premium call.
A full HardiePlank re-clad on a Des Peres home runs roughly $9 to $14 per square foot installed, which puts a 2,400-square-foot Cape Cod in Harwood Hills somewhere between $22,000 and $34,000 depending on trim detail and story count. The bigger custom homes off Des Peres Road — three stories, deep overhangs, wrap porches — land closer to $45,000 to $70,000 once soffit, fascia, and gable details are figured in. That’s the honest range, not a low-ball teaser rate.
Cost drivers on a Des Peres job are stud-bay condition, window count, story height, wrap-porch detail, and how much rotted sheathing shows up under the old cladding once tear-off starts. Hearth and GreenSky financing are open to qualified homeowners, and if the re-clad ties back to hail or wind damage, most of the scope may sit inside your Missouri insurance claim window. Call (314) 618-8888 for a firm number after we’ve walked the elevations, not before.
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