My house currently has three sidings on it. Cedar shake, vinyl, and wood siding. My guesstimate for what happened was the house (built around 1980) originally had the wood/shake combo but at some point previous owners replaced about 1/2 of the wood with vinyl. The vinyl seems somewhat new (maybe 3-5 years old?). Roughly 2700 squarefeet of total exterior siding.
Now, there is woodpecker damage to some of the wood siding in several places. We're trying to figure out what to do because while we could patch the damage, a good number of the wood pieces themselves are also in need of repair.
It seems like we could:
- Replace all the siding (neither myself or my spouse like the shake look but it seems sad to tear off a bunch of vinyl that's newish....)
- Replace just the wood areas in need of repair
It's not clear to me the best approach. We have several quotes, one to just replace the wood siding and repaint the 1/2 of the house that's wood (~$3.5k ish). We also have a couple quotes to replace all the siding (11.2k and 15k) and a couple options on replacing all the soffits/fascia/gutters too.
The full replacement of everything (gutters, fascia/soffits, all 4 sides for siding) would be about $20k. The cheaper quote uses Norandex instead of Tyvex, which I've never heard of before and information online is really lacking about (?), as well as a slightly lower grade of siding.
I'm leaning towards just replacing everything but I'm not sure how to best evaluate what makes sense. Our house is worth around $250k at this point. We
probably will be there a while yet, though it's hard to know.
What recommendations do folks here have?