Siding Contractors in Aumsville, OR: Repair & Replace

Aumsville is a small Marion County city about 9 miles southeast of Salem, and its housing is unlike any other town covered here. About a quarter of its homes are mobile or manufactured homes, the median home dates from 1995, and 85.6% of homes are owner-occupied, the highest share of the nine towns. That mix decides the first questions on a siding job: which set of rules the house falls under, and whether the siding on it is a 1980s or 1990s product nobody makes anymore. Salem Siding Pros takes siding quote requests from Aumsville, manufactured homes included.

Aumsville permits start at City Hall

Aumsville is inside Marion County’s building jurisdiction, but the city is the front door. Its addition and alteration page says that when an addition or alteration makes changes to an existing residential structure, a Marion County permit application must be submitted to the city, and county permits must be submitted in person at City Hall. For new homes, the city administrator does a zoning and plan review and then sends the application on to Marion County for processing. Marion County’s permit jurisdiction table shows the same split: land-use approval and the permit at the city, plan review and inspections at the county. The exception is the countryside around town: for the rural area outside city limits, the city says permits are issued directly by Marion County Building Inspection.

For a site-built house, siding on its own rarely needs a permit. The 2023 Oregon Residential Specialty Code exempts “replacement or repair of siding not required to be fire-resistance rated”, and the Building Codes Division handout that Marion County posts, Do I need a structural permit?, lists replacing or repairing siding on a wall three feet or more from a property line as work that needs none. It also says code standards must still be met. Two cases go past the exemption: a wall within three feet of a property line, which can need a fire-resistance rating under Oregon’s code, and rotted sheathing or structural panel siding found behind the boards, which Salem treats as permit work. Ask City Hall before either. Do you need a permit to replace siding? explains the underlying rules, which a 2026 edition of the state code updates from October 1, 2026, with a six-month phase-in to April 1, 2027.

Aumsville’s own development rules touch siding only lightly. The city’s development regulations do not require site development review for regular maintenance, repair and replacement of materials, naming roofs and siding as examples. The business district has a materials rule: vinyl, aluminum and pressed-wood siding are allowed there only as horizontal lap siding, and vertical aluminum siding is prohibited. We found no historic preservation ordinance or commission in the city’s development regulations.

Manufactured homes: a different rulebook

About 400 of Aumsville’s roughly 1,600 homes are mobile or manufactured homes, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020-2024), about 25%. In Salem the figure is under 5%, and in every other town covered here it is under 6%. The city’s comprehensive plan explains where they came from: in 1986 there were no manufactured homes or multifamily dwellings in the city, and since then three mobile home parks with a total of 262 units have been approved or developed.

Oregon regulates manufactured homes under its own rules, and they read differently from the residential code’s siding exemption. Under OAR 918-500-0580, alterations to a manufactured dwelling include any change, repair, replacement or removal of any part of it. Only four kinds of work are exempt from a permit: minor repairs with approved component parts, conversion of listed fuel-burning appliances, adjustment and maintenance of equipment, and replacement of equipment or accessories in kind. Siding is not named either way. Work after the first sale has to meet the code in effect when the home was built, or the equivalent provisions of the Oregon residential code. Marion County’s permit table lists manufactured-dwelling alteration permits under the city for Aumsville.

What that means in practice:

• Patching a few panels with matching parts may fall under minor repairs, but ask City Hall rather than assume.
• Re-siding the whole home is an alteration under the rule’s definition. Settle whether it needs a permit before signing a contract.
• Matching the original siding matters twice on a manufactured home: for looks, and because the home was built to a specific federal or state code that later alterations have to meet.

The longer guide to re-siding a manufactured home in Oregon adds which office issues the permit in each nearby town, the HUD label that has to survive the job, and the rules for homes in parks.

When Aumsville’s houses went up

The American Community Survey’s 2020-2024 five-year estimates (table B25034) put the median home at 1995:

• About 29% built in the 1990s, the largest decade, and about 12% in the 1980s.
• About 24% built in the 2000s, and about 10% since 2010.
• About 17% from the 1970s, and under 9% from the 1940s through the 1960s.
• No homes in the estimate from 1939 or earlier, though the margin of error allows for a handful.

About 73% of homes are single-family detached houses. With only about 1,600 homes, each share carries a wide margin of error. The ZIP code area, 97325, takes in the farmland around the town and shows a similar pattern, a little older: a median of 1990, about 90% owner-occupied, and about 22% mobile or manufactured homes.

That profile points to two things worth checking. The first is the 1980s and 1990s lap siding. The Masonite hardboard siding settlement covered siding installed from 1980 through January 1998, and the LP Inner-Seal OSB settlement siding installed before 1996, both long closed; with about 40% of Aumsville homes built in those two decades, swollen and softened lower edges on lap boards are the first thing to look for. Swelling hardboard or OSB siding explains how to recognize it, and what siding do I have? helps sort it from fiber cement or engineered wood. The second is lead: about a quarter of homes predate 1980, and on a pre-1978 house a contractor who disturbs 20 square feet or more of painted exterior needs a Construction Contractors Board lead-based paint renovation license, under rules the CCB and the Oregon Health Authority run together.

Wind, ice and the 2010 tornado

On December 14, 2010, a tornado touched down in Aumsville. The National Weather Service rated it EF2, and its storm survey put the most probable winds at 110 to 120 mph. NOAA’s Storm Events record describes a path about 5 miles long and 150 yards wide from Aumsville toward Shaw, with two minor injuries, fifty structures damaged, more than thirty large trees blown down or snapped, and about 1.2 million dollars in property damage. Marion County’s 2023 hazard mitigation plan adds that a local business building was destroyed and that a house, a metal building and the roofs of several manufactured homes were damaged.

The same county plan records that the 2021 ice storm left Aumsville four days without power and communications, and that significant wind events occur in Aumsville every year, sometimes downing trees. Siding torn loose by wind or cracked by a falling limb is usually a siding repair rather than a re-side, and whether insurance pays is covered in storm damage and insurance. Photograph the damage before anything is moved.

Repair or replace in Aumsville

On a site-built house, repair makes sense when the damage is limited to one wall or a few boards and the sheathing is sound. A whole-house siding replacement is worth pricing when hardboard or OSB is failing on several walls, because the product cannot be matched. James Hardie’s ZIP list puts 97325 in its HZ10 zone, so fiber cement goes up here to the HZ10 instructions, and vinyl remains the other common choice. On a manufactured home, settle the permit question first, then choose panels that suit the home’s original construction.

Published figures for siding costs

Nobody publishes Aumsville prices. The figures this site can source are national or regional:

• Repair: HomeGuide’s national range is $2 to $14 per sq ft of repaired wall. Worked from that range, not a quote, an 8-by-5-foot area of wind-damaged wall, 40 square feet, comes to $80 to $560.
• Removal: before a re-side, taking off and disposing of the old siding runs $70 to $200 per square (100 sq ft of wall) nationally, by HomeGuide’s figures, and it is often missing from first estimates. For a house with 1,200 square feet of wall, 12 squares, that is $840 to $2,400.

Sources: HomeGuide, "How Much Does It Cost to Repair Siding?" (updated February 9, 2026). National figures. HomeGuide, "How Much Does House Siding Cost to Install or Replace?" (updated October 29, 2025): $0.70 to $2.00 per sq ft, national. Checked September 16, 2026. New siding on top of that is priced by material and wall area; the siding cost page shows the published replacement figures with their sources.

What to gather before a quote

• Whether the home is site-built or manufactured, and the year it was built or placed.
• Whether it is inside city limits or in the rural area around town, which decides where the permit starts.
• For storm damage, dated photos and your insurance claim number, if you have one.
• For a pre-1978 house, the contractor’s CCB lead-based paint renovation license.

Getting a quote in Aumsville

Aumsville’s ZIP code is 97325, and requests from the farmland around town use it too. Fill in the quote request, noting whether the home is manufactured, and we will follow up about a quote. Whoever quotes the job, check the license on the CCB license search before you hire. Nearby, Turner and Stayton also take permit applications at the city before Marion County, and Salem has its own building department.