Austin, TX
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Austin Move Fast — Your Bidding Should Too Austin's construction market doesn't slow down. The metro added over 50,000 new residents in a single year, and that population pressure keeps residential re-siding, new-build cladding, and storm-repair work stacked up. If you're a siding contractor working Pflugerville, Round Rock, Buda, or the 78704 zip codes, you know the drill: homeowners are getting three bids, and whoever lands in the inbox first with a clear, professional estimate usually wins the job. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job-site walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating in Austin Different **Heat and UV load matter here.** Central Texas summers routinely exceed 100°F, and siding contractors in Austin field more questions about fiber cement versus vinyl durability under sustained UV exposure than contractors in cooler climates. Your estimate needs line items that justify material upsells — HardiePlank, Nichiha, or LP SmartSide over standard vinyl — and cost notes that back up the premium. **Hail and wind are real cost drivers.** Austin sits within the Texas hail corridor. A single hailstorm can generate hundreds of insurance-adjacent re-siding calls in a week. Estimate.Pro lets you build repeatable scope templates — "storm damage re-side, 1-story, 1,500 sq ft" — so you can crank bids during surge demand without cutting corners on accuracy. **City of Austin permitting adds a step.** Siding work that involves sheathing replacement or structural wall assembly changes requires a permit through Austin's Development Services Department. Contractors who build permit fees and inspection time into their estimates look more credible to homeowners who've been burned by unlicensed crews skipping the process. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Handles Siding Takeoffs **AR measurement on supported devices.** Walk a wall elevation, capture dimensions with live AR measurement powered by on-device ONNX inference. No ladder. No tape measure errors entered into a spreadsheet later. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates so you always know your confidence level. **Scope-of-work generation.** After your walkthrough, the AI drafts a scope: linear feet of trim, square footage of field siding, window and door wraps, house wrap layer, fastener schedule, waste factor. You review, adjust, approve. **Your material costs, your workspace.** Austin lumber and building-materials pricing shifts with supply. Estimate.Pro keeps a saved material cost workspace that you control. Update your HardiePlank per-square price when your supplier changes it. Every estimate that follows pulls the current number. **Stripe Connect payments on Elite.** Send the estimate, collect the deposit — deposit payment links built into the same document. Zero platform fee on Pro+ plans. --- ## Pricing That Works for One Crew or a Growing Operation - **Free** — no credit card, no time limit. Start building estimates today. - **Pro — $39/seat/mo.** Faster workflows, full AR measurement, saved cost workspace. - **Elite — $79/seat/mo.** Stripe Connect, invoice exports, advanced job tracking. - **Crew — $399/mo flat.** Unlimited seats for larger operations running multiple Austin crews simultaneously. The 3% Stripe platform fee applies on Free. Pro and above pay 0%. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Siding is one of them — not an afterthought, not a blank template you have to build from scratch. The scope logic knows the difference between a full re-side, a partial repair, and new construction sheathing plus cladding. It knows to ask about soffit and fascia, about J-channel linear footage, about whether the substrate is OSB or foam-backed. If you subcontract gutters or painting, you can hand that scope off. If you run those trades yourself, Estimate.Pro has them covered in the same platform. --- ## Start Without Risk Free tier. No credit card. If the 8-minute bid target doesn't hold up on your first real Austin job, you've lost nothing. Most siding contractors who try it don't go back to spreadsheets. Sign up at Estimate.Pro and run your first estimate today.