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If aging wood fascia, soffit, or trim on your Frontenac home is overdue for a factory-finished Hardie upgrade, our team is ready to walk it with you. Call (314) 618-8888 for a no-pressure consultation and a written ColorPlus estimate.
The wood fascia, soffit, and trim on a 1950s or 1970s Frontenac home rarely fails because of paint quality alone. Heavy shade from the mature oak canopy across Frontenac Estates, Jaccard Lane, and the Conway Road corridor traps moisture against the substrate, and the freeze-thaw cycles that follow open every joint to rot. James Hardie siding Frontenac MO owners trust gives you a factory-finished, fiber cement replacement path that ends the repaint treadmill. Top Quality Exteriors installs HardiePlank, HardieTrim, and HardieSoffit to last.
James Hardie engineers fiber cement specifically for the freeze-thaw, hail-prone climate of the western St. Louis County area, and the warranty backs that up: a 30-year non-prorated product warranty on HardiePlank lap and HardiePanel vertical siding, plus ColorPlus Technology finishes that resist fading for 15 years. The look complements the Austin white limestone, brick, and stucco common across French Provincial homes here. Pair this scope with fiber cement siding in Frontenac for broader exterior work.
Fiber cement is dense, dimensionally stable, and fire-resistant, but those engineering specs only matter if the install crew details the wall correctly. On a Frontenac project we tear off failed wood lap, fascia, and soffit down to clean framing, replace any rotted substrate, and set new house wrap before the first plank goes up. HardiePlank gets nailed blind through the upper third of the board into framing on 16-inch centers, with a 1/4-inch gap at every butt joint backed by HardieZone-matched flashing tape so seasonal movement does not telegraph through your finish. HardieTrim wraps windows, corners, and frieze runs in factory-finished 5/4 stock that matches HardiePlank profiles cleanly, and HardieSoffit gets vented where the original soffit failed for trapped moisture under the oak canopy. We pull a Frontenac building permit before tear-off and build to the city’s adopted 2021 IRC for ventilation, flashing, and ice-and-water details. For broader scope, see siding installation in Frontenac.
James Hardie installs move on a predictable rhythm once material is staged at your home. Here is the exact path we follow on a Frontenac project, from the first walk-through to the moment the last ColorPlus corner trim board goes up clean and tight.
I walk every elevation, photograph existing trim profiles, and probe wood fascia for rot. We measure each wall by hand to the inch. Then ColorPlus chips go up against your stone.
We pull failing wood lap, fascia, soffit, and trim in clean sections off your home. Rotted substrate is cut back to solid framing. Then fresh house wrap and flashing tape go on.
HardiePlank needs a flat, dry, taped wall plane to perform on a Frontenac home. We shim framing, lap house wrap, and flash every window opening. Penetrations are sealed cleanly.
HardiePlank goes up bottom to top on 16-inch centers with blind nails. Butt joints get 1/4-inch gaps backed by matched flashing tape behind. HardieTrim wraps corners and windows.
I walk the home with you, panel by panel, before the trailer pulls off. Touch-up caulking, ColorPlus paint kit, and a magnet sweep close the day. You get a written warranty pack.
Top Quality Exteriors LLC is a James Hardie Alliance Program Member, the certified contractor tier in the Hardie network. Elite Preferred sits at the top of that ladder; Alliance Member is the trained tier that gives us direct factory technical support and current ColorPlus inventory access. We were founded in 2022 on 7+ years of industry experience, and our 52-member team treats Hardie installs as a core trade across western St. Louis County.
Beyond the Hardie credential, we are Owens Corning Preferred Contractors, BBB Accredited with an A+ rating, licensed in Missouri, and carry general liability and workers compensation insurance on every Frontenac job site. We pull a Frontenac permit before the first plank comes off the truck, build to the city’s adopted 2021 IRC family, and back installs with a 36-month workmanship warranty up to lifetime. Siding repair in Frontenac uses the same crews.
James Hardie siding in Frontenac generally runs $9 to $13 per square foot installed, putting a full Hardie wrap on a 2,500 square foot custom home in roughly the $22,000 to $32,000 range. HardiePlank lap sits at the lower end of that band; HardieShingle and Statement Collection ColorPlus profiles run higher. Trim density on French Provincial rooflines, multiple gables, and dormer faces drives the labor side of the number more than the wall square footage alone.
Long-horizon math is where Hardie earns its place against painted wood or vinyl on a Frontenac home. ColorPlus Technology resists fading for 15 years; the 30-year non-prorated product warranty covers the substrate itself. You stop paying for repaint cycles every five years on shaded faces, and the look complements limestone and brick without the maintenance treadmill. For broader scope or a phased approach, ask about LP SmartSide siding in Frontenac as a comparison.
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