Siding Installation in Progress Village, FL

New Siding for Progress Village's Original Block Homes

Walk the numbered streets of Progress Village and you will see the same construction repeated with small variations: one-story concrete block, painted stucco, shallow gables, built in the early 1960s when the community was first platted. Stucco was a sensible finish then, but sixty years of Hillsborough County heat cycling opens hairline cracks, and every summer storm that rolls across the flatlands south of the Selmon Expressway drives moisture into them. When owners get tired of patch-and-paint every five years, siding becomes the permanent answer, and that is the work Alpine Exteriors does here.

Our usual prescription is fiber cement. It pairs honestly with a block house, it is immune to the termites that devour wood trim in this part of Florida, and its factory finish holds color through UV that would chalk a painted wall in a few seasons. Installed over furring with a drainage gap, it also gives a flat mid-century facade some welcome shadow line and depth.

The Details That Matter on a 1960s Ranch

Siding on these homes is rarely just siding. Original soffits are often perforated hardboard that has sagged and grown mildew; fascia boards behind old gutters are frequently soft; and gable vents installed in 1962 are undersized for a modern attic. We treat the whole edge of the house as one system, replacing soffit and fascia in vented aluminum or fiber cement, correcting attic airflow, and flashing every joint where new cladding meets old stucco so wind-driven rain has no path inward.

In 25 years of siding work we have learned that preparation decides how long the finished wall lasts. Before a single panel is fastened, we probe for hidden rot at window heads and hose bibs, repair what we find, and document it with photos, so you are never paying for surprises invented mid-job.

• Fiber cement lap, panel, and board-and-batten installation
• Soffit and fascia replacement with corrected attic ventilation
• Stucco crack repair and recladding options for block walls
• Flashing and sealing at every stucco-to-siding transition

Priced in Writing, Guaranteed for Decades

Progress Village homeowners tend to hold their houses for the long term, often across generations, so a siding job here has to be judged on a thirty-year horizon rather than a quick flip. That is why every installation we complete carries a 25-year workmanship warranty, and why more than 2,000 finished projects across Florida stand behind the numbers we quote. The estimate itself is free and happens on-site: a project manager measures your walls in person, checks the trouble spots you already know about and a few you probably do not, and hands you a fixed written price with material options laid out side by side.