Big Lake, Minnesota
Expert LP Siding Replacement in Big Lake, MN
After the four inch hailstone landed just past midnight on July 14, 2024, a lot of vinyl on the exposed south walls of Big Lake, MN came off the wall in shards, and owners started asking about a board with real wood grain instead. LP SmartSide is the usual answer here: an engineered wood lap that takes a hit, holds a finish, and suits the gable front homes in Lakeside Park as readily as the older cottages sitting down by the water.
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Engineered Wood on Big Lake's Two Kinds of House
Big Lake tells two housing stories, and LP SmartSide answers each one differently. The subdivisions platted through the late 1990s and 2000s went up with builder grade vinyl over simple gable and hip forms, chosen for speed rather than for how a wall reads in late afternoon light. Swapping that for engineered wood lap gives those elevations a cedar grain face and a real shadow line at every course, and the wider corner boards and casings finally give the gable ends something to terminate against. The shoreline cottages on Big Lake and Lake Mitchell are the other story: many still carry aged hardboard or thin cedar gone soft along the bottom two courses, and engineered wood keeps the woodsy character owners actually want down there. If you would rather have a cement based board on the same street, we also handle James Hardie siding replacement for owners weighing the two, and we lay out the honest tradeoffs on weight, cut work, repaint cycle and how each material behaves on a lot with almost no side yard.
LP Siding Replacement in Big Lake
What LP SmartSide Changes on a Big Lake Wall
A Wall That Survives Four Inch Stones
Engineered wood substrate absorbs a hail strike instead of shattering the way brittle vinyl did in the July 2024 storm, so one bad night off the lake no longer costs you a full elevation of cracked panels.
Texture the Production Plans Left Out
The production homes here went up with flat vinyl on simple gable and hip forms. A grained LP lap with a deep shadow line at every course gives those elevations the texture the builder skipped.
Bottom Courses That Stay Off Wet Grade
We hold the starter course clear of soil and hard surfaces and keep the boards back from mulch beds and sprinkler spray, which is where lakeside walls in Big Lake almost always rot from first.
Flashing That Sends Water Back Out
Every butt joint gets flashing behind it, kickouts go in where a roof edge dies into a wall, and window heads are flashed properly, so the assembly drains instead of parking water in the joints.
Trim Wide Enough to Hold the Corners
LP corner boards and window casings come in dimensions vinyl trim cannot match, which squares up the fussy little jogs and bump outs the production plans crowded onto these narrow platted lots.
Paint That Holds Through Lake Humidity
Prefinished or field coated, engineered wood takes and keeps its finish through the humid stretch off the water and the freeze thaw swings, so color stays even rather than chalking course by course.
How We Work an LP Siding Job in Big Lake
Staged for Lots With No Side Yard
Big Lake covers about 2.9 square miles, so its subdivision lots leave far less room than Becker or Elk River. We time the board delivery, the cut station and the dumpster to keep your driveway and your neighbor's usable.
Clearance Set Before Any Board Is Ordered
Before anything gets cut we walk the grade, the downspout discharge and the irrigation heads, then fix where the bottom of the wall belongs. That measurement drives the course layout, not the other way around.
Trim and Flashing Kept Inside the Claim
Storm claims on Big Lake vinyl often cover more than an owner expects. We photograph the strike pattern wall by wall, meet the adjuster on site, and write the LP scope so trim and flashing are not quietly left out of it.
Nobody Hands Off the Cottage Halfway
The people stripping soft hardboard off a Lake Mitchell cottage are the same ones setting corners and caulking the last window return, so no detail gets dropped in a handoff between a demo crew and a finish crew.
Answered at Any Hour of Storm Season
Our phones are picked up around the clock, which matters in July when a wall gets opened at midnight. A family run shop working out of Eden Prairie can get someone into Sherburne County to wrap a torn elevation before the rain circles back.
What people near Big Lake say
Fantastic guys to work with, did an excellent job of fixing our siding. You can tell it’s a high integrity company. Definitely recommend.
Carolyn MillerSiding repair The crew arrived early and spread tarps all around the house to capture every bit of debris. By 3:00 PM, my entire roof was completely finished.
Hazel JamesRoof replacement, Minneapolis, MN Orange Exteriors fixed a minor leak that involved replacing flashing and a few shingles blown off our roof. Timely, quality work. Great ideas to keep our roof going long term.
Jim ThomasStorm damage repair
LP Siding Questions From Big Lake Owners
What people in Big Lake ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Which Big Lake house styles actually suit an LP SmartSide board?
Two groups do especially well. The late 1990s and 2000s production homes with simple gable and hip roofs gain the grain and shadow line their flat vinyl never had, and wide LP trim finally frames the windows properly. The older cottages on Big Lake and Lake Mitchell suit it because engineered wood keeps their wood character without the upkeep cycle of thin cedar.
How does being close to the water change the clearance detailing on my siding?
It sets the bottom of the wall. We keep the starter course clear of soil, walks and patio slabs, hold the boards well above mulch beds, and turn sprinkler heads away from the siding. Lake facing elevations also get flashed butt joints and kickouts at every roof to wall termination, because splash and standing humidity attack cut edges first.
Is LP siding usually replacing vinyl or old wood on Big Lake homes?
Both, and which one it is changes the scope we quote. In the subdivisions it is nearly always builder grade vinyl, much of it broken by the four inch hailstone that fell in July 2024, so we inspect sheathing and housewrap underneath. On the shoreline cottages it is aged hardboard or thin cedar, where rot repair low on the wall becomes part of the job.
Get Your Big Lake LP Siding Walk Through
Tell us which elevation bothers you most, whether it is hail split vinyl in Lakeside Park or soft bottom courses on a Lake Mitchell cottage, and we will measure, photograph and put a free written LP SmartSide scope in your hands. Call (612) 600-8529.
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