Dallas, TX
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Dallas Move Fast — Your Bid Process Should Too Dallas is the fourth-largest city in the country. The metro adds tens of thousands of new housing units every year, and hail season regularly drops a second wave of re-siding work on top of that organic demand. When a storm rolls through Frisco, Mesquite, or Oak Cliff, homeowners call three contractors the same afternoon. The contractor who sends a clean, itemized bid first wins the job most of the time. Estimate.Pro gives you a walkthrough-to-bid workflow that hits an 8-minute median. You do the site walk, the app handles the scope-of-work draft and the numbers. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in Dallas **Material selection is wider than most markets.** North Texas builders and homeowners use fiber cement (HardiePlank is everywhere), LP SmartSide, vinyl, and brick veneer on the same block. Your estimate has to price each material accurately and explain the tradeoff to the client. Estimate.Pro lets you build a saved material cost workspace so your fiber cement and vinyl unit costs stay current without re-entering them every job. **Hail damage work has a different scope structure.** Insurance-related re-siding jobs require line-item detail that a flat-bid approach won't cover. The app generates a structured scope-of-work you can hand directly to an adjuster or attach to an ACV/RCV supplement. **Labor rates here are mid-tier for Texas but trend upward.** Crew availability in the DFW trades market tightens every spring. Your bid needs to reflect current labor cost, not last season's number. **Permit requirements vary by municipality.** Dallas proper, Plano, Irving, Garland, and McKinney each have their own building department. Most require a permit for full re-siding when the substrate is being replaced. Knowing which jurisdiction you're in before you bid prevents scope gaps that eat margin. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Siding Contractors **AR Measurement on Supported Devices** Point your phone at the wall plane and the ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures linear footage and square footage in real time. On older devices or photo uploads, measurements are clearly flagged as estimates — you always know what's calculated vs. measured. **Scope-of-Work Generation** After your walkthrough inputs, the AI drafts a trade-specific scope. For siding, that means: existing material removal and disposal, substrate inspection and repair allowance, moisture barrier, furring if required, siding installation by type, trim and corner details, caulking and paint/prime where specified, and final inspection. You edit, you don't write from scratch. **Material Cost Workspace** Save your current pricing for HardiePlank 4.5", LP SmartSide 8", and vinyl at whatever your supplier costs are this week. When lumber prices shift — and in DFW they shift — you update once and every future estimate reflects it. **Client-Ready Output in 8 Minutes** The finished bid is formatted, itemized, and ready to send. Pro tier runs $39/seat/month. Elite at $79/seat/month adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports — useful when you're managing multiple crews across a storm-work surge. The Crew plan at $399/month flat covers your whole company regardless of seat count. There is a free tier with no credit card required. **Zero Platform Fee on Pro+** When you collect payment through Stripe Connect, the platform fee is 0% on Pro and above. Free tier is 3%. On a $18,000 re-siding job that difference is $540 staying in your account. --- ## Dallas Siding Market: What You're Working With The DFW metro runs roughly 9,700 licensed roofing and exterior contractors, with siding specialists representing a significant share of that base. Competition is real. The contractors winning consistent work are the ones with fast turnaround on professional bids, not the lowest price. Texas doesn't require a separate state license for siding work, but Dallas city code requires licensed contractors for permitted jobs, and municipalities like Plano independently enforce their own contractor registration. Know your jurisdiction before you pull the permit. Hail is the primary driver of non-new-construction siding volume. Dallas–Fort Worth averages more than 10 hail events per year significant enough to cause exterior damage. A single storm event in a dense suburb can generate 200–400 viable re-siding leads in 30 days. Your ability to turn estimates quickly in that window is a direct revenue lever. --- ## Start Free, No Card Required Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Siding is one of them, built with the material types, scope language, and measurement tools that apply to actual siding work — not a generic construction template with the label swapped. Sign up free and run your first Dallas estimate today.