Custom Trim and Carpentry
Exterior PVC trim in Lancaster and Chester County, PA
The trim on the outside of a house is the first thing to rot: the fascia behind a gutter, the bottom of a window casing, the corner boards, a column base. We replace it with Wolf PVC trim, a cellular PVC board from Wolf Home Products in York, PA that cuts and nails like wood, takes paint, and never rots, and we do it as part of a porch, a deck, siding work, or on its own.
What We Replace
- Fascia and soffit, with the gutters taken down and rehung.
- Window and door casing, sills, and the trim under a bay window.
- Corner boards, frieze boards, and rake boards along a gable.
- Column wraps and bases on a porch, which rot first and show it.
- Garage door trim and the jambs beside it.
- Trim on a new porch, portico, or addition, so nothing on it ever needs replacing.
Why PVC
Cellular PVC trim is solid plastic through its thickness: no grain, no knots, no water absorption. It is cut and nailed like wood, glued at the joints with PVC cement so the seams stay closed, and painted or left white. On a house with a lot of rotted trim it solves the problem for good instead of for a few more years. Dalton’s years with an exterior remodeling company were spent on exactly this work.
Done with the Siding or on Its Own
Trim replacement happens naturally with a siding job, a porch, or a portico, when the wall is open anyway. It is also a job on its own: a day or two replacing the pieces that have gone, matched to the profiles on the house, painted to match.
Questions
Questions We Get
Does PVC trim need to be painted?
No. It comes white and stays white. It takes paint well if you want a color, and a light color is best because dark paint heats the board.
Can you replace just the rotted pieces?
Yes. We match the profiles on the house and replace what has gone, which is usually the fascia behind the gutters, the sills, and the column bases.
Does PVC trim expand?
A little, with temperature, which is why the joints are glued and the boards are fastened the way the manufacturer specifies. Done right, it does not show.
Process
How We Work
- We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
- You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
- Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
- We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
- We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.
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Service area
Where We Work
Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.
Lancaster County
- Christiana
- Gap
- Quarryville
- Strasburg
- Lancaster
Chester County
- Parkesburg
- Coatesville
- West Chester
- Kennett Square
- Downingtown
- Malvern
- Chester Springs
- Frazer
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