Clay-coloured vinyl lap siding along the side of a home in Metcalfe. The siding is trimmed out around a large white window with wide white casing, and the courses run level up to the soffit.
Metcalfe is a rural village in Ottawa’s southeast, with a small historic core surrounded by rural residential and agricultural properties. Metcalfe properties tend to be more open and exposed than suburban Ottawa, and the area’s housing stock spans older village buildings and farmhouse-style homes to newer rural-lot homes.
Metcalfe's original village centre includes older buildings alongside surrounding rural development.
Less tree cover and open agricultural land mean more direct wind exposure than urban Ottawa.
Metcalfe includes historic village homes and newer rural-residential construction.
Original siding on older Metcalfe buildings is often well past typical replacement age.
Metcalfe's open surroundings can accelerate siding wear on exposed walls.
Rural properties with additions built at different times sometimes have mismatched siding.
Both. Our Metcalfe service area covers the village core and the rural residential properties around it, including farmhouse-style homes with additions.
Metcalfe pays Ottawa rates: vinyl at $6-$10 per sq ft installed, fiber cement at $10-$16, plus $1-$3 per sq ft to remove old siding. For a rough number first, the Estimate your cost link at the top of this page works for Metcalfe homes too.
More open wind exposure is a factor we account for in fastening and material recommendations for Metcalfe-area homes.