Salt Lake City, UT
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Salt Lake City Move Fast — Your Bid Should Too Salt Lake City's housing market has been one of the most active in the Intermountain West. New construction in areas like Daybreak, Herriman, and Draper keeps siding contractors busy year-round, but so does re-siding work on the aging vinyl and wood-lap stock in neighborhoods like Sugar House, Millcreek, and Rose Park. When three crews are bidding the same job, the contractor who sends a clean, detailed estimate first usually wins it. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job-site walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes — median time, not marketing copy. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in Salt Lake City **Extreme temperature swings change your material math.** Salt Lake City records summer highs above 100°F and winter lows that dip below 10°F. That delta matters when you're specifying fiber cement, engineered wood, or insulated vinyl. Expansion gaps, flashing details, and manufacturer-required furring strips add line items that get missed on a napkin estimate. Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work generator prompts for thermal movement allowances so those items land on the bid automatically. **Elevation and UV exposure drive finish selection.** At roughly 4,300 feet elevation, UV degradation on paint and finish grades is faster than at sea level. Jobs in the Avenues or East Bench often call for premium paint finishes or pre-finished fiber cement over standard vinyl. Your estimate should reflect the actual product spec, not a generic square-foot price. **Permits are required and fees are project-specific.** Salt Lake City Building Services requires a building permit for siding replacement when structural sheathing is altered or when the work involves more than 25% of a façade in certain overlay districts. Permit fees are calculated on project valuation, and the city's fee schedule is tiered. Budget time for inspection scheduling — inspectors cover multiple disciplines and same-week slots fill up. **Wind-driven rain and freeze-thaw cycles mean flashing details get scrutinized.** Inspectors under the Utah Residential Code (IRC as adopted by Utah, currently based on the 2021 IRC with state amendments) pay attention to kickout flashing, window head flashing, and water-resistive barrier laps. If your estimate doesn't break out flashing labor and material separately, you may absorb those costs later. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Siding Contractors **AR-assisted measurement on supported devices.** Walk the exterior, measure wall sections with live AR measurement. On devices that don't support AR, camera and photo measurements are marked as estimates so you know what to verify before finalizing. Either way, you're capturing dimensions in the field, not guessing from memory at the office. **AI scope-of-work generation.** After the walkthrough, the AI drafts the scope — linear feet of J-channel, square footage of field panel, number of window wraps, flashings, soffit, and trim. You review and adjust. Nothing is locked. **Your material costs, your numbers.** You maintain a saved material cost workspace. That means your pricing reflects your actual supplier relationships at places like US LBM or local yards, not a national average that doesn't match your invoice. **Send in minutes, not hours.** The finished bid is formatted and ready to send from the app. No reformatting in a spreadsheet, no copy-pasting into a Word doc. --- ## Pricing That Fits a Growing Siding Business The Free tier costs $0 — no credit card, no trial period. It's a real working tier. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee and invoice exports. Crew is $399 per month flat for the whole team — useful if you're running multiple crews across the Wasatch Front. On the Free tier, Stripe Connect carries a 3% platform fee. On Pro and above, that fee drops to 0%. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. If your crews also handle gutters, exterior painting, or windows alongside siding, those scopes live in the same system. One walkthrough can generate scopes for multiple trades when the job calls for it. Salt Lake City siding contractors working neighborhoods from Holladay to West Valley City are using faster estimating to win more of the work they actually want. Your first bid is free. No card required.