The Island Look, Built to Marine Standards
Anna Maria's building character is beach cottage — lap siding, board-and-batten gables, crisp white trim against pastel walls, from the old cottages off Pine Avenue to the new elevated homes replacing them. Fiber cement has become our standard bearer for that look because it holds detail and paint while being completely indifferent to the three island killers: salt, moisture, and termites. Every board goes up on stainless-steel fasteners, cut edges get sealed before installation, and clearances above decks and roof lines are held to spec so wicking never starts.
Behind the boards, the assembly matters even more. We install a continuous drainable moisture barrier, flash every window and door with the storm in mind rather than the sunny day, and detail the transitions on elevated homes — where siding meets pilings, breakaway walls, and stair stringers — so wind-driven rain from a Gulf squall sheds out instead of soaking in.
After the storms, honest rebuilding
Recent hurricane seasons hit this island hard, and much of our Anna Maria siding work is now repair and reconstruction: matching surviving profiles, replacing flood-damaged lower courses, and upgrading assemblies so the next storm meets a better wall. We will tell you plainly which parts of your existing siding are worth saving — often more than owners fear, sometimes less than contractors claim.
Why Islanders Choose Alpine
- Stainless fastening and sealed-edge installation as standard practice, not an upsell
- Fiber-cement lap, panel, and board-and-batten siding in true cottage profiles
- Storm-repair expertise including elevated and piling-built homes
- Drainable moisture barriers and coastal flashing details on every wall
We have spent 25 years building exteriors on the Gulf Coast, and the island is where that experience earns its keep — of our 2,000+ completed projects, the coastal ones taught us the most, fastest. Every installation is covered by a 25-year workmanship warranty, and on Anna Maria we consider that warranty a design constraint: the wall has to be built well enough that honoring it costs us nothing.
The first step is a free on-site estimate at the house. We will check what the salt air has reached, moisture-test the suspect walls, and write you a scope that fits both the cottage you love and the weather it lives in.
