Out here past 175th Street, the homes look different, wooded acreage off Metcalf, custom estates tucked into the rolling country east of US-69, ranches on half-acre lots near Mission Road. The siding on a Stilwell home has to work harder, too. Mature oak and walnut canopies mean shade, moisture, and woodpeckers. Open fields off the prairie mean wind-driven hail. Kansas freeze-thaw cycles do the rest.
That’s the work we do. As one of the most experienced James Hardie siding contractors in Stilwell, KS, Fairway Exteriors has been replacing tired wood, LP, cedar, and stucco on Johnson County homes for over a decade, and we’re a James Hardie Elite Preferred Contractor, the top tier in the program.
Jenny Brouillette
January 2026
Matt Ungashick
November 2025
Drive through Berryhill Farm, The Wilderness, or any wooded estate neighborhood off 199th, and you’ll see the same story: beautiful custom homes from the ’90s and 2000s with cedar or LP SmartSide that’s now splitting, soft, or chewed up by woodpeckers.
Stilwell’s climate is brutal on the wrong product:
That’s why Hardie board siding dominates out here. Fiber cement won’t rot, feed termites, dent, or split, and woodpeckers physically can’t drill through it. It’s rated for Kansas wind speeds and carries a Class A fire rating, which matters on properties with outbuildings, pole barns, or burn piles.
Every Stilwell project we touch is built around James Hardie’s HardieZone 5 product line: engineered specifically for the freeze-thaw climate we get in this part of Kansas. Within that, we install:
We also handle the other stuff that actually determines whether your siding lasts: wood rot repair behind the old siding, sheathing replacement, proper flashing at every penetration, and a real weather-resistive barrier underneath.
You have options. We get it. Here’s what we do differently:
Scott has logged over 40,000 hours on James Hardie products, and he’s on your property during the bid, during installation, and during the final walkthrough. You’re not getting handed off to a salesperson who disappears.
Before you sign anything, you see a custom rendering of your home with the colors, trim profile, and layout you’re considering. Most contractors give you a one-page quote. We give you a picture of the outcome.
A lot of Stilwell homeowners have demanding jobs in Overland Park, the Plaza, or downtown KC. You don’t have time to babysit a job site. We text you video walkthroughs at the end of each workday so you stay in the loop without having to be home.
Combined with James Hardie’s 30-year non-prorated product warranty, this is the strongest coverage you can get on a re-side in Johnson County.
Stilwell is unincorporated, so siding replacement permits go through Johnson County Building Codes. We pull them, schedule the inspections, and handle the paperwork.
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1. On-site consultation.
Scott walks the home with you, inspects the existing siding, and looks for the issues you can’t see, wood rot at the bottom courses, flashing failures around windows, and woodpecker damage behind shutters.
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2. Custom proposal + rendering.
Within a week, you get a line-item quote and a visual rendering of your finished home.
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3. Pre-construction walkthrough.
Owner, project manager, and you. We lock in colors, trim, and how we’ll protect your landscaping.
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4. Installation.
Our crew tears off the old siding, addresses any rot or sheathing issues, and installs your James Hardie siding to manufacturer specs.
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5. Clean-up + final walk.
Metal detector across the yard, full debris haul-off, and walkthrough with you. We don’t take final payment until you’re 100% satisfied.
Re-siding is something most homeowners only do once. It protects your largest investment, sets the curb appeal for the next 30 years, and isn’t a project you want to hand to the cheapest bidder with a pickup truck.
We’ll come out to your property, walk the exterior with you, point out what we see, and give you a real proposal, no pressure, no ambiguous one-page quote. If you want to bundle windows, doors, or a new deck into the project, we’ll quote that too.
Schedule online to see why homeowners on 199th, Mission Road, and US-69 trust Fairway Exteriors as their go-to siding contractors in Stilwell, KS.
Yes. Stilwell is unincorporated Johnson County, so siding replacement permits are issued by Johnson County Building Codes (913-715-2200), not a city. We pull the permit and coordinate the required inspections as part of every project; you don’t have to navigate it.
That’s most of what we do in Stilwell. Many homes off 199th Street, Mission Road, and through Berryhill Farm, The Wilderness, and the newer Blue Valley Reserves are 4,000–7,000+ square feet with complex rooflines, gables, dormers, and outbuildings. We’ve sold estate homes of every size in southeast Johnson County and have the crew capacity to do it right.
In almost every case, yes, and HOAs in Stilwell-area subdivisions tend to prefer fiber cement because it holds its appearance long-term. We help you submit colors and profiles to your HOA’s architectural review committee before we start. If you live on unrestricted acreage with no HOA, you have full creative freedom.
Yes. Wooded lots in Stilwell almost always come with some level of woodpecker damage and moisture rot, especially on north and east-facing elevations. We replace any rotted sheathing, trim, or framing as part of the re-side, and once we install James Hardie, the woodpecker problem is permanently solved. Fiber cement is impenetrable to them.
Better than anything else on the market. James Hardie carries a Class 4 impact rating (the highest), is 5x thicker than vinyl, and won’t crack from temperature swings the way other siding does. The 30-year warranty covers hail damage, which is something vinyl and LP warranties typically exclude in our region.
Most full-home re-sides run 2 to 4 weeks of active work, depending on home size, rot repair needs, and weather. Larger estate properties on acreage can run a little longer. We give you an honest timeline up front and update you daily.
James Hardie projects in our area typically run between $35,000 and $120,000+, depending on square footage, trim detail, and the complexity of the existing exterior. A rough rule of thumb we’ve seen hold true: the cost of a Hardie re-side tends to mirror the cost of the car in your driveway, give or take. You’ll get an exact, itemized quote at the consultation.
Yes. We work throughout Johnson County and into the surrounding Kansas City metro. If your home is along the Metcalf or US-69 corridor, we cover you.
