Siding Installations
West Coatings is an experienced siding installer, equipped to execute a range of siding project of all complexities. You can rely on our intimate familiarity with the needs of working on complex siding replacement projects. We offer solutions designed for your property's specific environmental needs.
Our team is responsive and will reach out within 24 hours to discuss your project needs.
Siding Installation Types
The West Coatings team produces high-quality finishes that not only enhance the curb appeal but also protect your structure from the elements. Using high-quality paints and advanced application techniques, we deliver long-lasting and weather-resistant results that stand up to the test of time. Customer satisfaction is paramount for us, and our dedication to providing exceptional service and transformative exterior painting solutions sets us apart as a reliable and trusted choice for any exterior painting project.
Hardie Panel & Trim Installations
Installing Hardie panel or LP siding and trim requires the correct selections and assemblies to insure the product is installed correctly, we install the correct flashing and metal installations to ensure the seams are correctly caulked prior to painting. The painting assemblies we use are recommended by Hardie and our painting manufactures, including primer, mid-coat and top-coat finishes.
Stucco Installations
Inspecting the existing condition of the building envelope and existing stucco on your property is an important step prior to changing the color or adding a protective coating. Cracks appear due to the gradual shifting of your building and the seasonal weather patterns. Cracking can also be caused by the improper fitting of lath and an incorrect mixture of stucco. Our team can identify the different kinds of cracks and identify their cause. We repair all cracks in the stucco surfaces, ensuring greater stability. Our stucco installation services comes with a range of options to update your property's color and style, and protect against moisture, UV rays, and other environmental factors.
Masonry installations
Installing Masonry, Brick, CMU, Stone or Cementous substrates requires varied product assemblies and inspection standards to ensure the proper repairs are performed prior to installation. We offer a range of masonry products including veneers.
Wood Installations & Sealing
We are experts with wood installations of all wood types including T1-11, Cedar, Pine, Alder, Mahogany, Cypress, Ash, Redwood, Fir, Spruces, Douglas Fir, HDF, Oak and Exotic wood variations.
Aluminum, Steel & Metal Installations
The West team offers a range of metal installation types including custom fabrication for all building envelope surfaces, carport structures and structural elements. We offer retrofitting and new installations.
Vinyl & PVC Installations
We install a range of vinyl and PVC products, our team can assist with product recommendations for your siding installation project.
Decking Installations
We install a range of trex, wood & membrane decking products for patios and walkway areas.
Selective Repairs & Installations
We offer selective repairs and installations closely matching existing substrates, with detailed inspections and allowances allocated to the project.
Siding Replacement Standards
We specialize in siding replacement projects for your multi-family apartment complex, HOA, commercial property, high-rise & industrial facilitate. Our company provides products that will improve the aesthetic of your architectural features and provide protection against the elements. How we operate is something we have put our efforts towards to develop processes and operating procedures that you can count on.
1. Product selections designed for your property
Understanding the preferred siding types is the first step in bidding out the project for you. Our team is educated in the area of various siding installations, how to install them and the correct specifications needed for each siding installation. The West Coatings team works closely with product manufacturers to educate our team on the best product assemblies for a range of commercial building types.
2. Product & design documentation
West Coatings maintains documentation on all siding projects - we store your product and color information on file and ensure the site staff has the correct product selections and colors available to them to ensure they are able to perform any necessary future repairs or touchups. This allows us to ensure warranties, support your site team and reduce further repainting by working with the site team regarding best practice around future paint touch-ups.
3. Building Envelope Protection Standards
Prior to starting the installation process, one of the most important steps is the preparation of the building envelope prior to installation. Every siding installation job we perform includes the appropriate preparation including weather wrapping, waterproofing and penetration sealing to ensure the surface is prepared for the best adhesion possible. A siding installation is only as good as the preparation standards and waterproofing steps that match the manufacturer's specifications.
4. Warranty Assurance
Our work is backed by our industry leading workmanship warranty and installed to manufacturer specifications to ensure your product warranties are intact. Determining the correct products for your local environment and coordinating the color design is what our team does best.
5. Color Design & Location Mapping
Each project we take on our team is here to assist with color design and location mapping, we offer an industry leading service of color design. Whether you are painting one of your properties or many within your portfolio our visualization software and approach provides your project stakeholders with a visual guide of appearance prior to starting work.
6. On-Site Color Mapping
Once colors are selected is important to us that we confirm the color scheme on site. We offer on-site mockups for all siding installation projects that will ensure you are painting your property with the correct colors before our work begins.
7. Project Planning to Minimize Tenant & Staff Impact
It is extremely important to our company that your tenants and staff aren't impacted by our work, our process is designed to offer a high-level of detail and coordination to ensure your tenants are impressed by our team's ability to work in complex environments and take the extra steps necessary to protect all areas of your property, including those that aren't being worked on.
FAQ
How often should you replace the siding of a commercial building?
The frequency of siding installations for commercial building depends on various factors, including type of siding installed, climate conditions, and the quality of the previous siding job. On average, commercial buildings may require new siding every 20-40 years.
How much does siding replacement add value?
Siding replacement can significantly increase the curb appeal and overall value of a property. While the exact amount varies depending on the property's location, condition, and other factors, a well-executed exterior paint job can yield a return on investment exceeding 100% or more.
How long does it take to get a siding replacement quote?
We respond to inquiries within three business days, and aim to provide a detailed quote within a few days to a week after conducting a site visit and assessing the project requirements.
Is it necessary to replace all siding on a building?
It does depend on the siding types currently installed, typically if selective siding is preferred siding can be selectively replaced with additional trim work.
What time of year is best for siding replacement?
While it can depend on the region, spring, summer, and early fall are typically considered the best times for siding replacement as the weather is usually mild and conducive to paint painting the new siding (if necessary). It is essential to avoid extreme temperatures (too hot or too cold) and rainy or humid conditions, as they can negatively affect the paint's performance and drying process.
Our Company Process
West Coatings has standardized our processes with a unique value-chain designed to improve efficiencies, produce a quality product and service our clients in a similar manner on all projects. From conceptual to warranty assurance we provide a level of detail to your project to ensure your project needs are met.
Project Profile
Every project starts with our formal project profile review, we seek to understand the intentions of your project closely and determine the site/existing conditions that will impact your project and budget needs. We organize the project details closely with our accounts and estimating team to provide project recommendations and a scope of work that aligns with your goals.
Project Request & Existing Conditions
West Coatings will request the initial intentions of your project prior to performing an inspection. We review the request and create an initial profile for our estimating team to reference. Once we've reviewed your property details we create an inspection map and perform a site inspection. Our team organizes a detailed inspection report to inform our estimating process.
Through this process we seek to understand the existing conditions that will impact the project to have a complete scope of work defined that our estimating team will build from and ultimately operations team will utilize to perform the scope of work.
Determining the Scope of Work
Our team will work closely with your project stakeholders to define the scope of work and utilize techniques to drive down costs without sacrificing the quality of your project. We organize the project details and analyze the existing conditions of your project closely to ensure we have a complete and defined scope of work.
We leverage supplier and manufacturer relationships to align their products and our volume purchasing abilities to install systems that are designed for your project, to provide the ideal option for your project.
Estimating
We provide detailed estimates. Our pricing model considers factors like market-rate pricing and assembly costs that are competitive. All of our estimates utilize the same pricing structure and cost markup to ensure we can maintain the best prices for the various installations we provide. Ultimately we seek to provide the winning price, and it is important to use to maintain consistent pricing that our clients can count on.
Budget Considerations
West Coatings understands the need for project budgets with commercial properties, we seek to understand these intentions once we have reviewed the project profile and start working on providing a scope of work.
When considering the main project constraints we look closely at how we can extend value back to our clients by providing a scope that aligns closely with project budget constraints.
A Transparent Pricing Model
We prioritize our ownerships intentions and need to understand the project details closely, many projects require an ownership and management team to be involved in the decision making process. Our pricing model is understood through itemizing our bids in a transparent model that is accompanied with a detailed scope of work to reference to provide the project stakeholders with the necessary information to make an informed decision.
Product Assemblies
Not all products are the same, nor all contractors. We have aligned ourselves and negotiated the best costs on the products we can stand behind. Our team regularly educates ourselves on the best assemblies and products and work closely with our supplier and manufacturers to ensure the products we use are recommended for the applications we are installing and ultimately standing behind through our warranties.
Industry Leading Products
We are only as good as the products we are utilizing and the way we install these materials. Our company only works with reputable product manufacturers and regularly review our material costs to leverage the best pricing we can to extend these savings back to our clients.
Understanding the product assemblies, variations and installation techniques is important to our company. In our industry we've sought to minimize the variation of product installation and we purchase the materials that we specify in our estimates to ensure the correct products are installed.
Installation Practices
Our teams follow surface preparation standards directly from our product manufacturers to ensure the integrity of our products, we prioritize the details of every product and layer we install to ensure product integrity. When performing a project we spend the necessary time with our installation teams and review the assembly instructions prior to starting work on every project.
Warranty Assurance
West Coatings stands behind our installations, we work with our manufacturer reps to ensure product integrity that can be warrantied. Our installations include a one-source warranty and workmanship warranty to provide the assurance to our clients that their work is guaranteed from product defects or workmanship errors.
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Project Design
Our in-house design team can assist with providing color, product and location design services to ensure you have the correct selections prior to starting your project. The West Coatings model has an integrated approach to design and project planning where the design process is closely planned considering the project requirements
Color Design
The West Coatings design team specializes in selecting products and providing visualization to the color selections that are selected and ultimately installed at your property. We understand the importance of property continuity and have unique approach to mapping color schemes that align with the area of the property and intentions of the design for your property.
Color Mapping
Whether you are looking to map the existing color mapping at your property or design a new color scheme by location we can assist. Our team will provide detailed color mapping plans for your review and revise according to your preferences. We have an experienced design team that will work closely with your existing design team or provide these services directly and ultimately save you design costs for your next project.
On Site Color Mockups
West Coatings performs on site color mockups to ensure you have the correct color schemes selected. We are able to save product and labor material to have these products installed early on the conceptual planning phase by selected options that have been digitally viewed and approved. Once we have the selected color schemes our team will schedule a time to perform on-site color mockups to be approved prior to starting your project.
Project Lifecycle
Once a contract is approved, our team begins working immediately on the pre-project planning efforts. We have organized our project milestones in a manner that produces efficiently, moves quickly and seeks to minimize project impact on your management team and tenants.
Pre-Project Planning
We are only as good as the products we are utilizing and the way we install these materials. Our company only works with reputable product manufacturers and regularly review our material costs to leverage the best pricing we can to extend these savings back to our clients.
Understanding the product assemblies, variations and installation techniques is important to our company. In our industry we've sought to minimize the variation of product installation and we purchase the materials that we specify in our estimates to ensure the correct products are installed.
Project Milestones & Updates
All project milestones, meetings and weekly update tracking is assembled in our company ERP software to ensure an integrated approach where all project stakeholders will be updated throughout the project lifecycle. We organize our efforts in a manner where your team understands where we are at in the process and updated in a similar approach for all projects.
We provide live photo links in our weekly reporting that allows you to track our progress and our team to make adjustments as needed to the production scheduling. Our team facilitates weekly site meetings, inspections, coordination with the site team and works closely with your staff to ensure the project can maintain a production schedule that you can count on.
Project Inspections & Approvals
Our punch-walk and inspection process has been designed to reduce burden on your site team. The West Coatings project management team is proficient in our multi-inspection process and we work closely with our installation teams to ensure product continuity, completion and integrity of our work. Ultimately we are seeking to turn over a project that minimizes additional trips and hassle once our work is completed, our team is organized an a manner that allows us to properly oversee your project and provide a high-quality service that will earn the opportunity to work on your next project.
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