House Wrap Installation in Raleigh, NC

Here is something most homeowners are never told: siding is not waterproof and was never meant to be. Wind-driven rain gets behind vinyl, past lap joints, and around trim on every house in Raleigh, every storm. What stops that water from reaching your framing is the wrap behind it. If the wrap is torn, missing, or lapped in the wrong direction, your walls have been getting wet for years and you have no way of knowing.

When House Wrap Matters

Any time siding is coming off, the wrap behind it should be inspected and almost always replaced. This is the only moment anyone will ever see it. It also matters on new construction and additions, where it is going on fresh and there is no excuse for getting it wrong.

You should specifically ask about it if your siding is being replaced because of moisture problems, if you have found rot in sheathing anywhere, if your energy bills are higher than the house should justify, or if the previous siding job was done a long time ago. Older houses often have felt paper rather than modern wrap, or nothing at all, and neither performs like current material.

Getting the Lapping Right

The whole system depends on one idea, which is that every layer laps over the layer below it, so gravity carries water down and out rather than in. Wrap goes on from the bottom of the wall upward, with each course overlapping the one beneath it by several inches. Do it top down, which is faster and happens more often than you would like, and every seam becomes a place where water is directed into the wall instead of out of it.

Seams get taped with the manufacturer's tape, not whatever is in the truck, because ordinary tape lets go in our summer heat. Openings are the critical part. Windows and doors get a sill pan at the bottom, then the wrap is cut and folded in a set sequence so that jamb flashing tucks under the wrap at the sides and head flashing goes over the wrap at the top. That order means water hitting the wall above a window is carried over the flashing and back out onto the face of the wrap. Reverse it and you have plumbed water directly into the header. We photograph the entire wrap stage before siding covers it.

House Wrap Installation Cost in Raleigh

House wrap is a small line item relative to the siding going over it, which is exactly why cutting corners on it makes no sense. It is priced with the siding job by square footage, with the openings and flashing detail being where the labor actually sits.

If you are collecting siding quotes, ask each contractor specifically what wrap they are using, whether seams get taped, and how they flash the openings. The answers will tell you a lot about who you are hiring.

Why Choose Us

Nobody inspects the wrap after the siding is on, and everyone in this trade knows that.

We are fully insured with general liability and workers' compensation, and we hand you proof of it along with your estimate. Bryan owns this company and has spent 14 years in the trades, so the read you get comes from someone who has done this work himself. Estimates are free and we can usually be out within one to three days. Your price is written down before anything starts, your workmanship warranty runs 2 to 12 years depending on the project, in writing, and financing is available.

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Getting Siding Replaced?

Ask us to photograph the wrap stage before we cover it. Free estimate. Call (984) 370-4330.