Short answer
We repair wood rot and remodel homes in Asheboro, the Randolph County seat about 7 miles from our Randleman office. What shapes the work here is age combined with tenure: Point2Homes gives a median build year of 1981, and QuickFacts shows 45.5 percent of homes are owner-occupied, so many houses are rentals that need repair between tenants.
Where rot starts on a house from the early 1980s
On a house this age, rot rarely starts in the middle of a wall. It starts where water sits: the bottom corners of window sills, door jambs at the threshold, fascia behind an overflowing gutter, the base of porch posts and the lowest course of siding near the ground. We probe each suspect spot, cut back to sound wood and replace it with new stock that is primed on all sides before it goes up.
Fixing the board without fixing the cause just resets the clock. Red Cecil clay, common across Randolph County, drains slowly and holds water against foundations and the wood near them. We look at gutters, downspouts and the grade next to the house, and termite activity, which NC State Extension ties to leaks and wood touching soil, gets flagged if we see it.
Getting rental houses back on the market
Asheboro had 11,855 housing units in 2020, and with fewer than half owner-occupied, landlords own a big share of them. A turnover often combines exterior rot repair with interior work: new vinyl plank floors, paint, fixtures and a kitchen or bath that survives the next tenant. Housing rehabilitation projects are noted as improving homes in the city, and we put together scopes that fix the structure first and then the finishes, priced room by room. Durable choices pay off between tenants: semi-gloss paint in kitchens and baths, a floor that shrugs off spills and fixtures whose parts are simple to find.
Permits inside and outside Asheboro city limits
Randolph County Building Inspections is based in Asheboro and covers unincorporated parts of the county along with towns such as Randleman and Archdale. Within the city limits, we ask the City of Asheboro how it wants the permit handled before work starts. The city grew as a textile center after Acme Hosiery Mills opened in 1909. Today the North Carolina Zoo, opened in 1974, is its main attraction, and Lake Reese covers about 900 acres. Asheboro is 26.7 road miles south of Greensboro, about 33 minutes.