One word. Amazing.
We have used ARS before and Mike and his team were great then and they were great now. In the past we used them to replace all of our gutters with covered units, with which we were very satisfied. Here we were renovating the entire exterior of our home and after several months of other contractors coming in, Mike stopped by and in an hour had our business. He was the most responsive professional we had talked to and provided the best price for the work.
ALSO, since we were very concerned about the small details, like wrapping 100% of all exposed wood in aluminum, and removing the gutters on the house before capping the old trim work so there wouldn't be rotted fascia board behind the gutters, having someone who "got that" was important to us. As a matter of fact, Mike was the only contractor who offered to remove all the gutters completely (included in his price) so that the work could be done properly. All the other contractors were willing to pull back the gutters and "see how much they could cover" of the trim, but none were willing to go the extra mile to do the job right - or they told us to have a gutter guy come and remove them and reinstall them when the job was completed, at our expense.
As for the work, lets begin with the roof - Complete removal and replacement. Our roof was rotted in a dozen places and the repairs included replacing some rafters as well once the roof was opened. This was way beyond what Mike had quoted us but - AMAZING - he charges us for the materials only, even though it took another 1/2 day to complete due to the rot. Also, I was doing some electrical work, running wires to new outside lighting locations and the roofers were patient and worked around me as I took advantage of the open roof to make my work easier. This was a consistent theme throughout the job.
Next, construction. We originally agreed to have ARS replace our kitchen window in the front of the house, replace two rear exterior doors with new insulated ones, and cut in a new door to the back of our garage. All of that wass done beautifully. They have a great carpenter who can basically handle all the detail work that you'd be worried would fall through the cracks with a roofing and siding team. Once the job started we also decided to replace a massive back window unit overlooking our yard. It's a 5' x 7' picture window with two side units. Its was not problem for them, and again, the costs was extremely reasonable for an add on to the job.
Now for the main work, the siding. We chose to use the Certainteed Vinyl perfection shingles in 7" We like the look of them and really wanted a one and done solution for the house. Our old cedar shakes were rotted through in many places and there was no saving them. Once again, after the tear down, a nightmare of construction work to deal with the rot. In a few places the rot was so bad you could see into the house once the shingles were removed, and the water damage was so bad around the garage they had to to rebuild and re-frame both doorways. Again, not a problem for them, and the cost was labor and materials only.
Mike's team was also working our another team we hired to do some stone work in the front of the house and a replacement front patio. They all got along and coordinated well so the job went smoothly for us.
IN addition to the traditional roofing and siding work, we also had some additional detail work done with Azek trim. This included a building out a complete section of wall around our rear patio in Azek board and matching trim design.
All in all - DEFINITELY RECOMMEND this team. We're very happy with everything they did, how much they charged, and how responsive they are to every request we made and continue to make.