Siding repair quandary

**drumaero** · 06-05-2009, 03:02 PM

We are looking to put our house on the market later this summer. I am going to get the exterior painted, but some of the cedar siding on the front of the house needs repair. I cannot afford to replace the siding around the entire house. A local contractor gave me a bid for replacing the siding along just the front of the house, using Hardie siding. The cost of replacing the front siding only with cedar would be more than doing the entire house in Hardie.

What I am wondering is if I have the front of the house in Hardie siding, and the rest of the house in cedar, will that end up hurting my chances of selling the home, and effect what I can get for the home because people might not like the mixed siding?

If that is the case, I'm not really sure what I should do, as I don't think I could afford to re-side the whole house or replace the just the front with cedar.

**RedCarpetSchool** · 06-05-2009, 08:16 PM

[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I had to do that with a house I bought. The entire house had cedar siding and the entire south side was shot and need to be replaced. I used Hardie to replace it and decided to do the entire house for that reason alone. It would have been real pain at the corners of the house to make them join correctly and look right and even the Hardie shake wouldn

**Greg** · 06-06-2009, 04:14 AM

If you replace the siding on just one side it will hurt the sale of the house especially if the mixed siding is viewable from the road. You say that just some on the siding on the front of the house needs replacing so just replace the bad pieces and not the whole side.

A good carpenter can pull off and replace just the bad pieces. It is pretty common around here.