*All cost estimates on this page are planning estimates, not quotes. Actual costs vary by location, project scope, materials, site conditions, and contractor. See methodology and sources.
This page prices real sawn timber. The manufactured lookalikes are on our engineered wood siding page, and they cost meaningfully less. If you are comparing quotes, confirm which one each bidder is offering before anything else.
The range here is higher than many published wood figures, and the reason is scope. It prices a whole-home replacement in sawn wood, with tear-off, a trim package and a finish, rather than a partial elevation, a material-only rate, or an engineered substitute. Wood is also fitted rather than hung: boards are selected, cut around openings and back-primed, and that is carpentry time on every square foot.
The lines that separate a wood job that lasts from one that does not are all invisible when the wall is finished.
Excluded from every bid: the refinishing you will do later. Also normally excluded are gutters and soffit and fascia, both of which are cheaper to do while the crew and the staging are already there.
Five to eight days of installation for an average home, depending on the profile and how complicated the elevations are.
The finish is what actually sets the end date. Each coat needs the right temperature and dry weather, and a coat rushed onto damp boards is a finish that will peel. Factory-finished stock skips that entirely, at a lead time instead. Graded and pre-finished timber is ordered, not stocked.
Cedar is the species most people mean when they say wood siding, and most quotes you collect against the range on this page will be cedar quotes. We publish one installed range for real wood rather than a separate cedar figure, because grade and profile move the price more than the species does.
| Choice | What it changes | Effect on price |
|---|---|---|
| Clear vertical grain | No knots, even color, stable | Top of the range |
| Knotty or character grade | Visible knots, more movement, rustic look | Lower |
| Bevel or shiplap | Standard horizontal boards, quickest to hang | Baseline |
| Shake or shingle | Individual pieces, most labor per square foot | Higher |
| Board-and-batten | Vertical boards with battens, more layout | Higher |
| Factory pre-finished | All faces coated, no site painting | Higher to buy, faster to install |
| Pine or fir instead of cedar | Less natural rot resistance | Lower, with a stricter finish schedule |
Ask every bidder for the species, the grade and the profile in the same sentence. A per-foot rate without a grade attached cannot be compared with anything.
Wood is bought for authenticity. It is the right call on a historic home, in a district that requires it, when you are repairing and extending existing wood, or when you want a material that can be sanded, re-coated and repaired indefinitely rather than replaced. It is also the only siding you can let weather to gray on purpose.
It is the wrong call if you do not intend to keep up the finish. Wood does not fail gradually and forgivingly. It fails at the end grain, at ground contact and behind a coating that has let go. Treat refinishing as a standing line in your budget, not a surprise, and ask the finish manufacturer for the recoat interval for your exposure before you choose between paint and stain.
It is also the wrong call where moisture or insect pressure is constant at the base of the wall. If the look is what you want and the maintenance is not, engineered wood is the alternative. Our article on wood siding pros and cons makes the maintenance case in full.
The finish you choose changes the installed price, the recoat interval and what failure looks like. Decide it before you buy the wood, because some choices want different stock.
Whichever you pick, the recoat cycle is the real cost of wood siding. Get the interval in writing from the finish manufacturer and price it as a repeat job.
Home Genius Exteriors holds Owens Corning Platinum Preferred status alongside James Hardie Elite Preferred and CertainTeed 5-Star contractor certifications, and covers roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters and attic insulation. Reviewers name their project manager more often than almost anything else about the job, and describe them staying involved and checking in through to the finish. Siding and gutter work draws the warmest praise for how it looks once finished, and most installs wrap up in just a few days. Their free inspection is thorough and photo-led, with some homeowners noting drone footage of the roof itself. Promotional discounts are tiered by trade rather than applying across the board, so ask what your specific project qualifies for. If your roof is flat or low-slope, ask what warranty comes with it, since those systems are covered differently.
Victory Home Remodeling covers windows, roofing, siding and gutters across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland), installing and warranting house-branded systems supplied by established manufacturers: EnduranceX™ siding from Norandex, roofing materials from GAF. It is a GAF Master Elite contractor, a designation held by only about 2% of roofers nationwide. The process runs through a named salesperson and project manager, with a quality inspection at the end rather than a single handoff, and reviewers consistently describe the installation crews as clean, careful with the house, and quick to finish on the date first promised. Its warranty is genuinely one of the stronger ones in this category: lifetime, non-prorated on both labor and product, transferable once to the next owner, and it covers glass breakage regardless of cause. Get the full scope, including trim, siding tie-ins, and what the warranty covers, in writing before the crew starts.
Clear Choice Home Improvement is a family-owned company working across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, southern Maine, Vermont and central Pennsylvania: a regional specialist rather than a national one. Metal roofing is where its reviews are strongest and most detailed: standing-seam roofs fitted in three or four days, crews working till dark, and one homeowner whose panel was repaired free of charge a year later. Homeowners regularly name their crew lead and project coordinator by name when a roof is finished. It is an Owens Corning Preferred contractor, and covers roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters and bath. One thing worth knowing up front: Clear Choice does replacement and installation, not repairs.
Lednor Home Solutions is the largest Gutter Helmet dealer in the country, working across twelve states from seven offices: a dealer of the system rather than its manufacturer, which matters when a claim comes up. Homeowners praise punctual, tidy crews and a salesperson who explained the product without rushing. Its Sunesta retractable awning work is quietly its best-reviewed line, with homeowners describing installs finished ahead of schedule. The gutter warranty is the manufacturer’s while the service visit is Lednor’s, and that seam is where homeowners report the most friction. Ask what a service call involves and how quickly one is scheduled.
Homefix Custom Remodeling has worked across Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina since 1990, covering roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters and solar. It states plainly that it does not use subcontractors. Its own crews do the work, and reviewers across its different markets back that up by name, crediting installers and crews for turning a full roof or a house of windows around in a day or two. It is a GAF Certified Master Elite roofing contractor. Its warranty is branded UltraCare, and the word lifetime carries specific year caps by product rather than being open-ended, so ask what applies to your job. If your project involves a color-matched material like siding, ask to see and sign off on the exact sample before installation day, and ask upfront how a warranty service call gets scheduled.
Homeowners across DaBella’s network consistently point to the in-home consultation as the best part of the process: a named rep who lays out every option and price point without rushing, and on window jobs, lets you feel the difference between glass packages before you decide. Where a job is finished, the reviews get specific: full roof replacements wrapped up in a single day, whole-house window installs that leave rooms noticeably quieter, and bath and shower conversions homeowners call worth it once the work is done. DaBella covers roofing, siding, windows, bath, walk-in tubs, gutters and solar, and is a GAF Master Elite and James Hardie Elite Preferred contractor; its windows now come under the Fairfield and Glasswing lines. Financing runs through independent third-party lenders. DaBella states plainly in its own terms that it is neither a broker nor a lender. The in-home visit covers a lot of ground, so set aside real time for it, and ask which product line (Fairfield or Glasswing on windows, for example) your quote covers.
