Birmingham, AL
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Birmingham Move Fast — Your Bids Should Too Birmingham's housing stock is a mix of postwar brick ranches, 1970s wood-frame subdivisions in Hoover and Vestavia Hills, and newer construction pushing out toward Trussville and Helena. That mix means you're quoting fiber cement one day and engineered wood lap siding the next. Material costs, waste factors, and labor rates shift with every job. Estimate.Pro gives you a scoped, priced bid in 8 minutes from the end of your walkthrough. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in Birmingham **Humidity and moisture management add scope every time.** Birmingham sits in a humid subtropical climate. Housewrap selection, flashing details at windows and penetrations, and proper drainage plane installation are not optional line items — they're callbacks waiting to happen if they're skipped. Your estimate needs to include them by default. **Brick-and-mortar transition work is common.** Many Birmingham homes are partial brick with wood-framed gable ends or upper stories clad in older T1-11 or vinyl. Removing deteriorated siding where it meets brick requires careful scope definition. Estimate.Pro's AI scope-of-work generator flags transition zones as a separate line item so you don't absorb that labor cost into a flat square-footage price. **Jefferson County permits add time and cost.** Jefferson County requires a building permit for exterior siding work above a certain project threshold. The permit pulls an inspection, and inspections in the Birmingham metro can run 7–14 business days out. Your bid needs to account for that schedule and the permit fee — both are inputs in Estimate.Pro's job setup. **Material costs need to stay current.** Fiber cement pricing from distributors like 84 Lumber and ProBuild fluctuates. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you update your regional pricing once and push it across every active estimate. You're not repricing manually on every bid. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Siding Contractors **1. Walk the job, record it.** Use your phone to capture the structure. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement gives you wall dimensions in real time. On any device, photo measurements are captured and marked as estimates — so you always know what was field-measured versus approximated. **2. AI generates your scope.** The platform reads your walkthrough and builds a scope of work: substrate removal, housewrap, starter strip, field panels, trim, soffits, fascia, caulk, and finish. You review it, adjust it, and lock it. **3. Priced estimate, ready to send.** Labor rates, material quantities, and waste factors are calculated against your saved cost data. The estimate is client-ready in 8 minutes — median time from walkthrough to sendable bid. --- ## Pricing That Fits Your Operation - **Free forever** — no credit card, no time limit. Start estimating today. - **Pro at $39/seat/month** — full estimating suite, 3% Stripe Connect fee on collected payments. - **Elite at $79/seat/month** — invoice exports, Stripe Connect at 0% platform fee. - **Crew at $399/month flat** — covers your whole crew, no per-seat math. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. If you sub out gutters, roofing, or painting on a siding job, your subs can use the same platform without you paying extra per seat on their work. --- ## Built for Siding Contractors in the Birmingham Metro You're competing against other contractors from Alabaster to Gardendale. The ones who win bids aren't always the cheapest — they're the ones who look professional, respond fast, and send a detailed scope that gives the homeowner confidence. An 8-minute bid you send the same afternoon beats a 3-day turnaround every time. Start on the free tier today. No credit card.