Houston, TX
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Houston Move Fast — Your Bidding Should Too Houston keeps siding contractors busy year-round. Hurricane season drives storm-damage replacement work from June through November. New construction in master-planned communities like Katy, Pearland, and The Woodlands fills the calendar the rest of the year. That volume is good for business, but it also means you're competing against a deep bench of contractors bidding the same jobs. Estimate.Pro is built for that pace. Median time from jobsite walkthrough to a sendable bid: 8 minutes. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in Houston **Humidity and wind load are real line items.** Houston sits in ASCE 7 Wind Zone III, with design wind speeds that require contractors to spec fasteners, sheathing, and housewrap to specific values. Estimate.Pro lets you build those material specs into saved workspace line items so they default correctly on every bid — not as an afterthought. **Product mix shifts by neighborhood.** Fiber cement dominates in older Inner Loop teardown/rebuilds where buyers want fire resistance and dimensional stability in the heat. Vinyl holds strong in high-volume suburban tracts because margins are tight and speed matters. LP SmartSide moves well in flood-prone areas because it handles moisture cycling better than OSB-core alternatives. Your estimate template should reflect which product you're actually installing — Estimate.Pro's cost workspace stores your preferred materials by category so you're not re-keying unit costs on every job. **Storm-damage work requires photo documentation.** When you're bidding an insurance supplement or a wind/hail claim, you need measurements tied to photos. On supported devices, Estimate.Pro's ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures dimensions directly. On any device, camera and photo measurements are captured and flagged as estimates — giving you a defensible record for the adjuster, not just a number on a napkin. **Permits add cost and time.** Houston's City of Houston permitting office (Development Services) requires a building permit for exterior cladding replacement on most structures. The permit cost and typical turnaround belong in your bid as a line item and a schedule note. Local contractors who itemize permit costs separately close more jobs — homeowners trust the transparency. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for a Siding Contractor 1. **Walk the job.** Use AR measurement on supported devices to capture wall elevations, window and door deductions, and soffit/fascia runs. Photos are attached automatically. 2. **AI generates your scope of work.** The app drafts line items: existing siding removal, housewrap, sheathing repair allowance, new cladding (by product), trim, caulk, and disposal. You edit — you don't rebuild from scratch. 3. **Your cost data prices it.** Labor rates and material costs you've saved in your workspace populate the estimate. Houston labor rates for siding installers run $2.50–$4.50 per square foot installed depending on product and crew size. Set your numbers once. 4. **Send the bid.** Client gets a clean, professional estimate. You spent 8 minutes, not 80. --- ## Pricing That Works at Any Volume - **Free forever.** No credit card. No time limit. Good for solo contractors testing the water. - **Pro — $39/seat/month.** The tier most Houston siding contractors run on. Includes AR measurement, AI scope drafting, and saved cost workspaces. - **Elite — $79/seat/month.** Adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee and invoice exports. Right for contractors running $500K+ in annual revenue who want estimates and payments in one place. - **Crew — $399/month flat.** Unlimited seats. Built for multi-crew operations running several jobs simultaneously across Houston's metro. On the Free tier, Stripe Connect carries a 3% platform fee. Pro and above: $0 platform fee. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Dialed In for Siding Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Siding is one of them — not an afterthought bolted onto a general construction tool. The scope templates, measurement workflows, and line-item defaults are specific to cladding work: linear feet of trim, squares of field material, waste factors, and labor split between demo and install. If you run siding alongside gutters, windows, or roofing — all common in Houston's storm-repair market — those trades are in the same platform. One walkthrough, multiple scopes, one bid. --- ## Start Without Risk The free tier requires no credit card. Walk your next job, run an AR measurement, and see a drafted scope before you commit to anything. Houston's siding market doesn't slow down — your estimating process shouldn't either.