Cape May County

Everything here is coastal specification. Wind-rated siding installation, corrosion-resistant fasteners, and roof details that assume driven rain rather than gentle weather. Second homes are the norm in Wildwood, Sea Isle and Avalon, and an exterior that is not detailed properly will fail quietly over a winter when nobody is there to notice.

In Cape May itself there is a great deal of genuinely historic housing with trim and porch work that has to be reproduced rather than replaced with stock profiles.