Bend has some genuinely beautiful older homes. The craftsman bungalows near Drake Park, the mid-century ranches on the Westside, the cabins and mountain-style builds out toward Tumalo and Sisters. A lot of these homes were built with real cedar or pine siding, and when that wood is maintained properly, it holds up for decades and looks better than most modern materials.
When homeowners with these properties start searching for wood siding contractors in Bend, Oregon, they’re usually not looking for someone to rip everything off and start over. They want someone who understands wood, knows how to repair it correctly, and can match what’s already there. That’s the work Cascade Crest Exteriors does.
Wood siding fails in predictable ways. The paint peels, moisture gets in, the wood swells and then dries out, and over time you get rot. It usually starts at the bottom courses near the foundation, around window and door trim, at the ends of boards where the end grain is exposed, and anywhere flashing has failed or was never installed correctly.
We see a lot of this on homes in the Old Bend neighborhood and around the historic areas near the Deschutes River. The houses are beautiful and the owners care about them. They just need someone who can assess the damage honestly and fix it without replacing everything that doesn’t need to be replaced.
When we repair wood siding, we remove the damaged boards, check what’s behind them, treat or replace any compromised sheathing, and install matching replacement boards. Profile matching matters. A repair that uses the wrong profile or a different width sticks out and looks like a patch. We source boards that match the original as closely as possible, whether that’s a standard lap profile, shiplap, tongue and groove, or board and batten.
We also address the reason the wood failed in the first place. If there’s a flashing issue, a grade problem, or missing caulk at trim joints letting water in, we fix that before we close everything back up. Otherwise the new boards are going to rot in the same spot in a few years.
New wood siding installs are less common than they used to be, but they still make sense in certain situations. If you’re adding onto an older home and want to match the existing wood exterior, if you’re building a custom home and want the real thing, or if you’re doing a full re-side on a historic property where keeping the wood character matters, we can do it.
Cedar is the most common choice for new wood siding in Central Oregon. It’s naturally resistant to moisture and insects, takes stain and paint well, and holds up in the Bend climate better than most other wood species. We install clear cedar for a clean look and knotty cedar when the character of the grain is part of the appeal.
Wood siding requires more maintenance than fiber cement or vinyl. We’re upfront about that. If you want a material you can install and forget about for 20 years, wood probably isn’t the right call. But if you’re committed to the look and willing to keep up with paint or stain every several years, real wood siding is genuinely hard to beat.
Paint and stain are what keep wood siding alive. When the coating fails, moisture gets in and rot follows. A lot of the wood siding repair calls we get could have been avoided with timely repainting. That’s not a criticism, it just happens. Life gets busy and the exterior of the house waits.
As an exterior painting contractor in Bend, we paint and stain wood siding on older and newer homes throughout Central Oregon. The prep work on wood is more involved than on other materials. We scrape loose paint, sand rough areas, spot prime bare wood, caulk trim joints and gaps, and only then start applying finish coats. Skipping those steps means the paint job fails in two or three years instead of lasting eight to ten.
We work with both paint and penetrating stains depending on what the homeowner wants and what the wood needs. Some older cedar siding does better with a solid stain than a film-forming paint, especially if the surface has been through multiple paint cycles and the substrate is getting tired. We’ll look at what’s there and give you a recommendation based on the actual condition of the wood, not just what’s easiest for us to apply.
We paint all exterior surfaces at the same time if needed: trim, fascia, soffits, window frames, porch elements, and outbuildings. A cohesive exterior makes a big difference in how a property reads from the street, especially on the older craftsman and bungalow-style homes in the Bend area.
Sometimes the wood is too far gone. If rot has spread across a majority of the wall, if there’s structural moisture damage behind the siding, or if the home has been repainted so many times that the paint buildup is causing its own adhesion problems, a full replacement makes more sense than chasing repairs.
In those cases we talk through the options. Some homeowners want to replace with new wood. Others decide to go with fiber cement or engineered wood products like LP SmartSide that give a similar look with less long-term maintenance. We can install either and will give you an honest comparison of what each costs and what to expect from each material in the Central Oregon climate.
No pressure in either direction. We’re here to help you make the right call for your home, not to steer you toward whatever’s easiest or most profitable for us.
Cascade Crest Exteriors works with wood siding contractors jobs throughout Bend, Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver, La Pine, Tumalo, and surrounding areas. We offer free estimates with a thorough look at the full exterior and an honest report on what we find.
If you’re looking for wood siding contractors in Bend, Oregon who will treat your home with care and give you real information, call Cascade Crest Exteriors. We’d love to come take a look.
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