Why owners, boards & builders choose Sierra Siding
- Board-track process — bid documentation the membership can review
- Per-stack phasing across attached units with party-wall transitions detailed
- Complete architectural-review packets for your own community's committee
- Coordination with management companies on notices, access, and COIs
- Dry-rot and water-intrusion detailing at decks, walkways, and shared transitions
- Palette continuity across the community with fade-resistant factory finishes
A board project, not a homeowner project
On most townhome communities the association owns the exterior envelope, which turns a re-side into a governance project: board approval, sometimes a membership vote, reserve funding or an assessment decision, and a paper trail the membership can audit. Your CC&Rs control the exact responsibility split — read them first, and where they are ambiguous, resolve it with the association's counsel before scoping. What we bring is the contractor side of that discipline: an itemized written scope boards can compare line by line, per-phase pricing that maps to how associations fund work, and documentation at every step.
Phasing across attached units
Attached construction changes how the work sequences. We phase by stack or by building so party-wall transitions are detailed correctly where one unit's wall meets the next, each section is opened and made weather-tight within a controlled window, and no resident lives next to active work longer than the schedule requires. Staging is planned around guest parking, shared driveways, and common-area access, and the phasing plan is written into the proposal so the board can publish a real schedule to residents rather than an estimate that drifts.
Water intrusion in townhome construction
Townhome communities concentrate the same few failure points across many identical units: deck ledgers, walkway connections, stucco-to-siding transitions, and horizontal trim details that collect water. Because the construction repeats, a single detail flaw usually repeats community-wide — which is why our assessment walks representative units of each building type before we price anything, and why the scope prices substrate repair as a transparent unit rate rather than a discovered surprise.
Reserves, assessments, and honest budgeting
Boards fund exterior work from reserves, a special assessment, or a combination — a decision that belongs to the board and its reserve professional, not to a contractor. What we can do is make the numbers dependable: a firm written scope, phase pricing that lets the association spread the work across fiscal years if needed, and unit rates for concealed-condition repairs so the exposure is bounded on paper before the first board vote. Predictability is what protects a board from the meeting nobody wants to run.
Architectural review inside your own community
Even when the association owns the walls, the community's own architectural standards still govern color, profile, and trim. We prepare the same complete packet we build for individual-homeowner HOA submissions — manufacturer spec sheets, factory color chips, elevation photos, written scope — scaled to a community-wide decision, and we help the board select a palette that maintains visual continuity across every building rather than approving one attractive elevation at a time.
Comparing bids as a board
The cheapest townhome bid is usually cheap because something is missing: substrate repair carried as an exclusion, phasing left undefined, party-wall details unpriced, or tenant/resident coordination assumed away. We structure our written scope so a board can compare it line by line against competing bids and see exactly what each number covers. If a competitor's bid is genuinely better scoped, that comparison will show it — boards deserve the apples-to-apples view either way.
FAQ
Common Questions
It depends entirely on your CC&Rs. Most townhome associations own and maintain the exterior envelope, but responsibility splits vary. Read the CC&Rs first and confirm ambiguities with the association's counsel — we scope to whichever party genuinely owns the work.
It scales with building count and phasing. A single stack moves in days once started; a multi-building community is typically phased across weeks or months so each section is opened and weather-tight in a controlled window. The written proposal includes the real phase schedule, not a single optimistic number.
Yes — phase pricing by building or stack is normal for associations funding from reserves on a schedule. Each phase stands alone as weather-tight, complete work, so a board is never funding a half-protected building.
Yes, for a project of this size — most governing documents and management companies expect it. Our scope is itemized specifically so it can be compared line by line; an incomplete competing bid shows up quickly in that comparison.
We supply written schedules and notices your management company can distribute, coordinate access and staging around residents, and keep the phasing predictable enough that the published schedule stays true. Direct-to-resident communication runs through the board or manager — the channel residents already trust.
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