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Ready to see what LP SmartSide can do for your Clayton home? Call us at (314) 618-8888 or send a note today and we will book a free on-site walkthrough within the week. Bring photos, HOA color notes, and the questions — we handle the rest.
Choosing LP SmartSide siding for a Clayton home gives you the warmth of real wood on gables and dormers without the rot, splitting, and repaint cycle that cedar leaves behind on pre-1940 exteriors. Top Quality Exteriors installs engineered wood lap, panel, and trim across Carrswold, Claverach Park, Brentmoor, and the Wydown-Forsyth corridor where architectural review boards expect siding that respects the block. The May 2025 EF3 tornado stripped wood siding off hundreds of Clayton homes; we rebuild those elevations with material engineered for the next storm.
LP SmartSide uses treated strand technology with SmartGuard, so it holds up to Clayton hail, freeze-thaw cycles, and the humid summers that punish untreated cedar and older hardboard siding. Our crews prime every field cut, blind-nail with stainless fasteners, tape all butt joints, and coordinate fiber cement siding in Clayton transitions where a project blends materials on the same elevation. 16-foot lap lengths mean fewer seams on long Carrswold and Claverach Park facades, which keeps water out and reads cleaner from the curb.
The pre-1940 housing stock that defines Clayton — Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Georgian Revival, and Arts and Crafts — is dominantly brick, so most siding work here concentrates on gables, dormers, soffit, fascia, trim, and rear additions rather than a whole-house wrap. LP SmartSide is a natural fit for that scope because the 38 Series trim and 76 Series lap can be milled, mitered, and painted to match original wood details on a 1922 Carrswold Colonial or a Claverach Park Tudor without ever looking like vinyl replacement. On brick-and-frame elevations near Wydown Boulevard our crews tie the new engineered wood into copper flashing, existing box gutters, and James Hardie siding in Clayton already installed on a neighboring elevation, so the transitions read as one design. ExpertFinish factory paint arrives on-site in the exact HOA-approved color, which shortens tornado-recovery rebuilds in the Wydown-Forsyth neighborhoods still repairing damage from the May 2025 EF3.
Every Clayton LP SmartSide project follows the same five-step path so you know exactly what happens on your home from the first on-site walk-around to the final punch list. Nothing on your project gets skipped, and nothing gets left to guess.
I meet you at the Clayton property, measure gables, dormers, and elevations, and pull LP SmartSide chips so we can spec the profile that fits your block and your review board.
You get a line-item quote inside three days that lists 76 Series lap, 38 Series trim, fasteners, wrap, waste, and a firm labor number. There are no vague allowances anywhere in it.
We order ExpertFinish siding in your approved Clayton color, stage the material behind your home, and set protection over shrubs, walkways, and brick masonry before any tear-off.
The crew tears the old siding, inspects sheathing, wraps the wall, then blind-nails LP lap and mitered trim. Every field cut is primed and touched up on the spot before install.
We walk the elevation with you, hand over the LP 5/50 limited warranty paperwork, and register our 36-month workmanship coverage. Full cleanup happens before we leave the site.
Top Quality Exteriors was founded in 2022 and our owner Mario Granados brings over 7 years of industry experience to every LP SmartSide project we run in Clayton. We are BBB Accredited with an A+ rating, licensed in Missouri and Illinois, and we carry both general liability and workers’ compensation on the 52+ crew members under our name. James Hardie Alliance membership means we handle engineered wood and mixed-material transitions with equal craft on Clayton homes.
We know Clayton. We know Wydown Boulevard is an APA Great Street and the wrong siding color draws a review letter, we know Carrswold and Brentmoor covenants shape what leaves the truck, and we know DeMun brick homes need craft, not shortcuts. When a homeowner near Shaw Park calls after a hail event, a limb strike, or lingering damage from the May 2025 EF3, we show up ready to document, tarp, and quote a rebuild in insulated siding in Clayton.
LP SmartSide runs about $8 to $15 per square foot installed in the Clayton market, and a typical 2,000 square foot re-side lands in the $16,000 to $30,000 range including ExpertFinish paint, house wrap, trim, and haul-off. Partial jobs common in Clayton, like a Carrswold gable rebuild, a Claverach Park dormer, or a rear addition on a brick Tudor, often come in well under that number, which is why we quote each scope on its own instead of quoting per square.
We offer Hearth Financing and GreenSky so a Wydown gable wrap or Bemiston rebuild does not come out of savings alone. Every LP SmartSide job carries a firm 36-month workmanship warranty and the LP 5/50 limited product warranty, and select products qualify for extended workmanship coverage up to lifetime. Call (314) 618-8888 for a free walk-through, and if a limb strike needs same-day quoting alongside James Hardie siding in Clayton we run 24/7 emergency response.
Every credential we carry is a commitment to quality, safety, and your peace of mind — on every project, in every state we serve.
