Pinecraft, FL Siding Contractors | Alpine Exteriors

Cottage Siding in Sarasota's Most Particular Village

The cottages of Pinecraft wear their siding like a uniform — neat lap courses, simple corner boards, trim kept square and painted. Keeping them that way in Sarasota's climate is the challenge. These small frame homes near Bahia Vista and Kaufman Avenue date largely to the 1940s and 50s, and decades of Phillippi Creek humidity, summer cloudbursts, and Florida insects have been working on their clapboards and skirting the entire time. Sooner or later, paint stops being enough.

Alpine Exteriors re-sides these cottages so they look the way they always have, but stop needing rescue every few years.

Keeping the Look, Upgrading the Material

Our standard recommendation in Pinecraft is fiber cement lap siding milled to match the original reveal. From the street — and streets here are close — the cottage reads exactly as it did, but the material underneath no longer interests termites, no longer swells in the wet season, and holds paint several times longer than old-growth pine ever could in this humidity. Corner boards, window casings, and skirting get rebuilt in cellular PVC or primed and back-sealed trim so the crisp lines stay crisp.

Preparation is half of every job on houses this age. We strip carefully, expecting surprises: sheathing gone soft near the hose bib, framing nibbled at the sill, old window flashing that was never really flashing at all. Each one gets corrected and photographed before new siding closes the wall, because covering a problem over is not the same thing as fixing it — a distinction 25 years in business has burned into how we train every crew.

• Lap-profile fiber cement matched to original cottage reveals
• Structural and sheathing repair documented before walls close
• PVC trim, corner boards, and skirting that hold their lines
• Housewrap and flashing detailed for creek-side humidity

The Way We Do Business Here

Pinecraft's streets are narrow, its neighbors are close, and many of its residents built for a living — so our crews keep staging tight, plan ladder and scaffold placement in advance, end each day broom-clean, and expect knowledgeable questions — which we answer straight. Scheduling flexes around the village's rhythm too; plenty of our clients here head north in April, and we plan the work windows accordingly.

It all starts with a free on-site estimate and a written scope in plain language. From there, you get the same treatment that has carried us past 2,000 completed projects: fair price, careful work, no games. And when the last course is nailed and the trim is painted, the installation is covered by our 25-year workmanship warranty — a paper promise, yes, but one backed by a company that has already been keeping its promises for a quarter century.