Your home's exterior takes a beating every single day — sun, wind, rain, impact. When siding fails, moisture gets in fast and damage follows. Forge Siding sends licensed Siding crews across Short Creek, WV to inspect, repair, and replace with zero guesswork.
Forge Siding grew out of a simple frustration: too many Short Creek homeowners were paying good money for Siding work that failed inside five years. Wrong profiles, wrong fastener gauges, no housewrap — then the callbacks never came. We do it right the first time, using manufacturer-recommended installation methods and materials rated for WV's specific climate demands.
Our crews are licensed, carry full general liability and workers' comp, and every lead installer has completed manufacturer certification training. We work with fiber cement, engineered wood, vinyl, and steel systems — and we'll tell you straight which one makes the most sense for your home's structure, your local weather patterns, and your budget. No upselling, no pressure.
Siding doesn't fail overnight — it gives you warning signs first. Catch them early and a repair handles it. Miss them, and you're looking at rot, mold, and structural repairs on top of the siding bill.
Hairline cracks look cosmetic but they're water channels. Once moisture gets behind the panel and hits the housewrap — or finds no housewrap at all — sheathing rot starts within one season.
Buckling almost always means the substrate underneath has moved — often because moisture got behind the panel weeks or months ago. The panel is showing you the symptom, not the cause.
Paint peeling on your inside walls near exterior surfaces is a classic sign that moisture is migrating inward through failing siding. By the time you see it inside, the wall cavity is already compromised.
Panels that have pulled away from the wall are an open door for pests, moisture, and cold air. Nails back out over time when the substrate is soft — often a sign of prior water damage underneath.
Old or failing siding, particularly if the housewrap underneath has deteriorated, acts like a thermal short-circuit. Your HVAC runs harder to compensate, and the bills reflect it before the siding looks obviously bad.
Extreme fading means UV degradation — the protective surface layer is gone. Chalking on older paint-based systems signals the same. At that stage, the panel is no longer blocking UV penetration to the substrate underneath.
From a single damaged panel to a complete re-side on a large commercial property, we handle the full range of exterior cladding work — and we do it with the same crew standards regardless of job size.
Fiber cement is the workhorse material we recommend most in WV's climate — it handles humidity, impact, and UV better than most alternatives and carries manufacturer warranties that actually hold up. We're certified installers for HardiePlank, HardieShingle, and competing fiber cement systems. Installation follows manufacturer specs to the millimeter: correct lap, correct fastener type and spacing, correct clearance from grade and roof surface, and full housewrap integration on every project.
Vinyl offers the widest color and profile selection of any cladding material, and with the right thickness and a quality insulated backer option, it performs well across most of Short Creek, WV. We carry Dutch lap, beaded, board-and-batten, and shake profiles and can match existing siding profiles on partial replacements when the rest of the home is in good condition.
LP SmartSide and similar engineered wood products split the difference between the look of real wood and the dimensional stability of manufactured products. They're primed at the factory, accept field-applied paint well, and hold up to impact and moisture better than OSB or solid wood. We use LP SmartSide Trim & Fascia alongside the panel and lap systems so the trim package matches — no mixing incompatible products that age differently.
Not every siding problem needs a full re-side. Storm impact, vandalism, or isolated rot can often be addressed with a targeted repair that blends into the existing field. We stock common profiles and can often source discontinued patterns through our supplier network for historic or older homes where matching matters. Partial replacement work is priced honestly — if we see a repair scope that's going to creep, we say so before we start, not after.
We work with metal panel systems, large-format fiber cement, and commercial-grade vinyl for multi-family and light commercial applications. EIFS compatibility work, expansion joint detailing, and coordination with waterproofing and window subcontractors are all in scope. We carry the insurance requirements for commercial GC work and can provide certified payroll documentation for public projects.
Soffit ventilation is often compromised during re-siding work when installers don't maintain existing vent openings or fail to add ventilation where it was previously missing. We verify soffit net-free vent area against attic square footage before closing up the overhang — because your roofing contractor will find the problem later if we don't.
Four steps. Each one documented. No surprises at the invoice.
We come out, examine your existing cladding, probe for soft substrate, check flashing and housewrap condition at visible penetrations, and give you an honest assessment of what we're working with. No high-pressure sales — just a clear picture of the project scope before we talk numbers.
You receive a line-by-line written estimate: material cost by product and quantity, labor, removal and disposal of existing siding, and any sheathing repair identified in the assessment. We walk through material options with physical samples, not just catalog photos. You sign off on the spec before we order anything.
Your start date is locked at signing. Crew arrives on time, materials are staged and ready, and the site is protected before demo begins. We run a tight job — no leaving panels exposed overnight when rain is in the forecast.
At project completion, we walk the entire exterior with you. Every run of siding, every corner, every trim termination — you look at it before we close out. If anything isn't right, it gets fixed on the spot. Our goal is that you refer us to your neighbor the week after the project wraps.
Every crew that works on your home carries a current contractor's license for WV, full general liability, and workers' compensation. We'll email you the certificates before we arrive — not after you ask three times.
You see the number before you sign — and the invoice matches the estimate. If scope changes come up during demo, we stop work, show you what we found, and get written approval before proceeding. No invoice surprises.
We run our calendar tightly so the start date we give you is the date we're there. If a legitimate delay comes up — major weather, material shortage — we call you the day before and reschedule immediately, not a week later.
We've seen what happens when crews leave siding debris sitting for a week. Nails in the lawn, panels blocking access, dust in the HVAC intake. Our cleanup protocol runs end-of-day, not end-of-project.
Every Siding project we complete is backed by our written workmanship warranty. If anything we installed fails due to installation error — a panel pulls loose, a trim joint opens, moisture gets in at a transition we sealed — we come back at no charge and fix it. Not a credit, not a partial. Fixed.
Talk to Us About Your Project — +1-844-782-0929Straight from the homeowners we've worked with across Short Creek and Short Creek, WV.
We had three other quotes before calling Forge Siding. The difference was the inspection — they actually walked the whole house with a moisture meter and found soft sheathing behind two panels on the north wall that nobody else mentioned. The estimate covered the sheathing repair too, so no surprise charges when demo day came. Final result is clean and tight. We'd hire them again without hesitation.
A storm took out a whole section of vinyl on the east side of our house. I called four contractors — three of them said they'd have to replace the entire elevation because they couldn't match the profile. Forge Siding's estimator sourced a matching panel through their supplier network and did a clean repair. You can't tell where the new material starts. Saved us probably $4,000 compared to a full-side re-do.
We went with insulated vinyl — Forge Siding recommended the insulated backer for our exposure and the energy savings have been real. First heating season after the install, our gas bill dropped noticeably. Installation crew was professional, on time every day, and the lead installer walked me through every elevation before he called the project done.
The estimate process was refreshingly honest. The estimator told me upfront that my old OSB sheathing had delaminated in two areas and would need replacement before new siding could go on — with photos and a written line item. No one had mentioned that in the other quotes. Forge Siding fixed the sheathing, installed the HardiePanel system, and the project cost exactly what they quoted including the repair.
I'm a home inspector by trade, so I know what cutting corners on a siding installation actually looks like behind the panels. Forge Siding's work is correct — right fastener pattern, proper clearances from grade and roofline, continuous housewrap with taped seams at all penetrations. This is how it's supposed to be done and most of the crews I see in Short Creek, WV don't do it this way.
We had three bids and Forge Siding was the only contractor who physically checked the housewrap condition before quoting. Everyone else just looked at the surface. They found a section of torn WRB behind the garage bay that needed patching and included it in the estimate. When you're spending this much on an exterior, you want a company that checks the whole wall system, not just what they can see from the ground.
Real questions, real answers — no filler.
We're not a national call center subcontracting your project to whoever's available. Our crews are based in and around Short Creek, WV. We know local code requirements, local supplier lead times, and local weather patterns — and that local knowledge shows up in how the project runs.
Reach us at +1-844-782-0929 and we'll confirm service at your location. Most addresses in and around Short Creek are within our standard service radius with no travel fee.
Don't let failing siding go another season. Call Forge Siding and we'll have an estimator out to your property within 24 hours.
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