Denver, CO
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimating in Denver Is Not the Same as Anywhere Else Denver sits at 5,280 feet. That elevation matters when you're bidding siding jobs. Freeze-thaw cycles hit harder here than in most metros. Hail storms — and Denver sees some of the highest hail frequency in the country — put fiber cement and engineered wood under stress that contractors on the coasts never account for. Your bids need to reflect that reality. Denver's construction market is still absorbing a decade of population growth. Neighborhoods like Stapleton (now Central Park), Harvey Park, and Sloan's Lake are cycling through siding replacements on homes built in the 1950s through 1980s. Newer builds in Aurora, Thornton, and the southern suburbs are speccing fiber cement and LP SmartSide as standard. The bid volume is there. The margin pressure is real too. ## What Slows Denver Siding Contractors Down at Estimate Time Most siding estimating still happens on graph paper or in a spreadsheet that lives on one guy's laptop. You walk a job, scribble dimensions, get back to the truck, and spend 45 minutes calculating net wall area, accounting for window and door deductions, ordering enough material for waste factor, then pricing labor and markup. If the customer calls back with a change — different profile, different color, add a soffit run — you start over. That process works until you're bidding four jobs a week instead of one. ## How Estimate.Pro Handles a Siding Bid Estimate.Pro is built around a single workflow: walk the job, let the app measure it, get a priced scope in about 8 minutes. On supported devices, the AR measurement tool uses ONNX-assisted live detection to measure wall faces, gable ends, and window openings in real time. On any device, you can take photos and the app marks those measurements as estimates — clearly labeled so you know what to verify before the bid goes out. The app then builds your scope of work: linear feet of J-channel, starter strip, inside and outside corners, square footage of field material with your waste factor applied. Material costs pull from your saved workspace, so your fiber cement pricing is your pricing — not a national average that hasn't been updated since lumber spiked. You adjust, you add notes, you send. The median time from walkthrough to sendable bid is 8 minutes. ## Denver-Specific Details Built Into the Workflow Colorado's energy code (2021 IECC as adopted with Colorado amendments) requires continuous exterior insulation on new construction and many re-siding jobs that trigger a permit. Estimate.Pro lets you add continuous insulation as a line item alongside your siding scope — rigid foam, furring strips, and the labor to fasten through them — so you're not writing a separate addendum for something that should be in the original bid. Denver requires a building permit for most full siding replacements. Permit costs vary by project valuation, but you can capture the permit allowance directly in your estimate so it shows up in the customer-facing number, not as a surprise invoice later. Hail damage work — and you will do hail damage work in Denver — often involves insurance supplement bids. Estimate.Pro's line-item format exports cleanly, which gives you a document that works with Xactimate supplements without rebuilding the scope from scratch. ## Pricing That Makes Sense for a One-Crew or Multi-Crew Operation Estimate.Pro has a free tier. No credit card required. You can run bids today. If you're running a crew or multiple estimators, Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee, plus invoice exports. Crew is $399 flat per month for the whole company — one price regardless of how many seats you add. On the Free tier, Stripe Connect payment collection carries a 3% platform fee. Pro and Elite bring that to 0%. ## 25 Trades, One App If you do siding and gutters, siding and windows, or siding and painting — all common upsell combinations in Denver's remodel market — Estimate.Pro covers all 25 supported trades in the same account. You're not switching apps to price the fascia board replacement that always comes up mid-job. Start a free account. Walk your next job. See what 8 minutes gets you.