Auburn is where Route 12, Route 20, I-290, I-395 and the Mass Pike all come together. That's great for getting to work. It's rough on houses close to the main roads, because plow spray and road salt end up on your lowest courses of siding and in your gutters every winter. Wood trim near grade softens first. Paint lets go at the corners. We see it on job after job in town.
A lot of Auburn is capes, ranches and two-story colonials, with plenty of them old enough to have wood clapboard or asbestos shingle hiding under a first layer of vinyl. Capes with finished rooms upstairs leak heat through the knee walls, and that warm roof deck is how ice dams start at your eaves. Shady lots add moss on north-facing slopes. Older aluminum gutters get pulled loose by the ice.
Before we cover anything, we open it up, inspect the sheathing and photograph it for you. Tyvek HomeWrap goes on with every seam taped. Each window and door gets flashed so water heads back out. Shingles go down in a high-wind nailing pattern. Since we're based right here, coming back for a warranty item is a short trip, and your 5-year workmanship warranty is in writing.
What we see on Auburn houses
- Salt and plow spray on homes near Route 12 and Route 20
- Capes with knee-wall heat loss and ice dams at the eaves
- Old clapboard or asbestos shingle under first-generation vinyl
- Moss and slow-drying roofs on shady, wooded lots
