Siding Problems We See Most in Providence
A Providence triple decker carries three floors of wall on a lot barely wider than the building. Surface area is large, access is tight, and staging has to be planned before the first panel comes off.
Under the current siding there is usually history. Wood clapboard, later shingle, sometimes asbestos cement board from the middle of the last century. What comes off the wall determines how the job is handled.
Water damage in the city concentrates at the porches. Providence porch roofs meet the wall at a dozen points, and every one of them is a flashing detail that can leak into the siding below.