Service category

Home Envelope services

7 services in this category - and the order to do them in, which moves the total more than negotiating any one of them.

What these have in common

Why this is one category

Everything here is the shell of the house - the parts standing between the weather and everything you own. They fail in the same way and for the same reason: water finds the joint between two materials, and the joint is always where two different trades met.

7 services

All home envelope services

Each one has its own hub, with costs, guides and checked local pros.

Order of operations

What to do first

Work top-down. Roof, then gutters, then walls, then openings. Doing it in any other order means paying someone to protect a surface that is about to be disturbed by the trade above it.

RoofingGutters
The gutter has to come off for the roof edge anyway, and new gutters on an old fascia is money spent twice.
SidingWindows
Both need the wall opened at the flashing. Separately, you pay twice for the same detail and inherit a seam where the two jobs met.
RoofingSkylights
A skylight is a hole in the roof. Replacing the roof around an old skylight and leaving the skylight is the most common source of a leak in a brand-new roof.

These are the pairs worth quoting together. Ask for the second job as its own line on the quote - bundled invisibly into one number, you cannot tell whether the discount for doing both is real.

Tools laid out on a work surface before a job starts — Illustration, for reference.

Why these sit together

Booked apart, you pay for the same access twice

Scaffold, machinery, crew mobilisation and permit time are charged whether or not the second job is on the sheet. Grouping the work that shares them is the one saving available to a homeowner that does not involve asking anyone to do the job for less.

One mobilisation, not three Getting up there - or getting a machine in - is the expensive part, not the material.
One permit trail Related work under one permit is one inspection, not a queue of them.
One accountable contractor Where two trades meet is where blame gets passed. Fewer joins, fewer arguments.

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