Southgate Exterior Remodeling | Sarasota, FL

Renewing Sarasota's Classic Mid-Century Neighborhood

Southgate is one of Sarasota's signature 1950s communities, laid out along the oak-lined bends of Phillippi Creek south of downtown, with its Victor Lundy-designed community center still anchoring the neighborhood as a landmark of the Sarasota School of Architecture era. The houses that fill its curving streets are low-slung block ranches with clean rooflines and generous glass, minutes from Siesta Drive and the mall corridor at US 41 and Bee Ridge Road. They are wonderful homes, and nearly all of them are now seventy years old on the outside. Alpine Exteriors renews these exteriors, including roofing, siding and trim, and windows, without flattening the mid-century character that makes Southgate desirable in the first place.

The setting adds its own demands. Creek-side humidity feeds mildew on shaded north walls, summer storms arrive off the Gulf with little warning, and Siesta Key is close enough that salt rides the sea breeze across the neighborhood. Original jalousie and awning windows, where they survive, are charming and hopeless in equal measure.

Whole-Envelope Work with a Light Touch

On roofs, we favor systems that respect the low-pitch geometry these houses were drawn with: architectural shingles in muted tones, standing-seam metal where the budget allows, and properly detailed flat sections over Florida rooms. Wall work centers on stucco repair, fiber cement at gables and accent walls, and soffit and fascia rebuilt with correct attic ventilation. For glazing, we install impact-rated windows in slim frames that echo the original sightlines while meeting current code, so the house keeps its glassy mid-century face and finally gets storm protection worthy of it.

• Roof replacement matched to low-slope mid-century rooflines
• Stucco repair and fiber cement accents true to 1950s facades
• Slim-frame impact windows replacing jalousie and awning units
• Soffit, fascia, and ventilation corrections for creek-side humidity

Experience That Shows in the Details

A quarter century of Florida exterior work, and more than 2,000 completed projects, has taught us that neighborhoods like Southgate punish generic remodeling. Proportions matter on these houses; so do trim reveals, fastener choices near salt air, and drainage on lots that slope toward the creek. Our project managers plan each job around those specifics and pull permits properly with Sarasota County. Where a previous owner has already replaced windows or redone the roof, we fold those elements into the plan rather than selling you work the house does not need, and we will say so plainly during the walk-through.

Every installation carries our 25-year workmanship warranty, and every relationship starts the same way: a free on-site estimate at your home. We will walk the exterior with you, separate the urgent from the cosmetic, and put a fixed price on paper, so you can bring a seventy-year-old classic up to modern storm performance on a schedule that suits your household.