Siding Replacement and Repair in Salt Lake City

A city of brick, stucco, and siding

Siding replacement and repair in Salt Lake City covers vinyl and fiber-cement siding, storm-damaged panels, and the trim and flashing where walls meet the roof. Frame Restoration Utah is a roofing contractor first, so siding work here is scoped together with the roof edge, gutters, and step flashing beside it.

Salt Lake City’s houses are older than most on the Wasatch Front. Census ACS 2020–2024 estimates put the median year built at 1965 and count about 45 percent of homes as built before 1960. Plenty of those are brick bungalows and stucco cottages, but siding turns up everywhere: on gables and dormers above a brick first floor, on rear additions, on postwar ramblers, and on the townhomes and infill built since 2010, which make up about one in six homes in the same estimates.

That mix means a Salt Lake City siding job is rarely a whole-house wrap. More often it is a storm-damaged elevation, a gable that has been leaking behind the panels, or an addition that needs to match the original. The real work is matching profile and color, opening the wall to see what is behind it, and getting the flashing right where the siding meets the roof.

Siding work in Salt Lake City

The work falls into four kinds.

How a Salt Lake City siding job runs

Four steps, from the first look to the last piece of trim.

1. 1. The walk-around

   Every elevation gets looked at, starting with the side that faced the storm. Cracks, holes, loose courses, and dented trim are photographed, and the roof edge and gutters are checked on the same visit. If the house is in a local historic district, that is noted up front.

2. 2. Matching and approvals

   For a repair, we find the closest available profile and color. For a replacement, you choose the material and color before anything comes off. In a local historic district, you get a written scope and material details to include with a Certificate of Appropriateness application before any permit.

3. 3. Opening the wall

   Old panels come off and the sheathing, house wrap, and flashing behind them are inspected. Soft or wet sheathing is recorded and addressed before new siding goes on.

4. 4. Closing it up

   New siding and trim, with kick-out and step flashing where the wall meets the roof, finished so water runs down and away instead of behind.

Does siding work in a Salt Lake City historic district need approval?

Usually, yes. Salt Lake City has fourteen local historic districts, including the Avenues, Capitol Hill, Central City, South Temple, University, and Yalecrest. The city says all exterior work on a property in a local historic district, except paint color and minor maintenance, needs approval before work starts and before a building permit is issued. That approval is called a Certificate of Appropriateness.

For siding replacement and repair in Salt Lake City, that puts the planning conversation first. Ask the city’s historic preservation staff whether your project needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and expect material and profile choices to carry more weight in a historic district than elsewhere. Outside those districts, check the city’s building permit requirements for your project.

What Salt Lake City weather does to siding

The sun at this elevation is hard on vinyl, and south- and west-facing walls fade and turn chalky first. Winter adds freeze-thaw cycles that work small cracks a little wider each year. Then summer storms bring hail and gusty outflow wind, so one side of a Salt Lake City house can be pocked and split while the other three look fine.

Cracked or missing siding lets water reach the sheathing, which is where rot starts, usually out of sight until a soft spot shows up under a window. If water has already reached the inside of the wall, see water damage restoration in Salt Lake City.

Gables, dormers, and the joints that leak

Older Salt Lake City homes have a lot of places where a wall meets a roof: gable ends, dormer cheeks, porch roofs, and the seam where a rear addition was tied in. Those joints are where water gets behind siding, through a missing kick-out flashing, step flashing buried under old panels, or trim that was never sealed.

Frame Restoration Utah treats each of those transitions as part of the roof, so siding replacement and repair in Salt Lake City is scoped together with the roof edge next to it. If you are planning roof work, it is a good time to look at the siding beside it. See storm and hail damage roof repair in Salt Lake City.

Checking your siding after a Salt Lake City storm

Walk the sides of the house that faced the weather and look for cracked or holed vinyl, chipped fiber cement, dented trim, and loose panels. Photograph each elevation from the ground, and stay off ladders in the wind. If the storm tore the wall or roof open, emergency tarping and storm response are available 24/7 at 435-292-8802.

Siding damage usually means the roof and gutters took hits too, so all three get inspected and photographed together. You get a written scope you can share with your insurer; coverage decisions stay between you and your insurance company, and we do not adjust claims. See roof insurance claims in Utah.

What affects the scope of siding work in Salt Lake City

Siding is scoped wall by wall, so there is no price list here. These are the factors that move a Salt Lake City siding scope, and what we document for each.

Before your siding inspection

Have these ready for a more accurate Salt Lake City siding scope.

• The storm date, if the damage came from a storm.
• Photos of each side of the house.
• The existing siding type, if you know it.
• Whether the home is in a local historic district.
• HOA rules on exterior materials and colors, if you have an HOA.
• Any interior water stains near exterior walls.

Our work in Salt Lake City

We do not have Salt Lake City siding photos to publish yet. These are roof projects in Salt Lake City, captioned with what they show.

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