Seattle, WA
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in Seattle Move Fast or They Move On Seattle's construction market doesn't slow down for slow bidders. Homeowners in Ballard, Capitol Hill, and Beacon Hill are replacing aging cedar lap siding, T1-11, and fiber cement at a steady pace — driven by weathering, rot, and the city's chronic moisture load. When a customer calls three contractors, the first credible bid usually wins. Estimate.Pro gets you from jobsite walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's not a rounding error. That's the median across actual jobs. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in Seattle **Rain exposure drives scope creep.** Seattle averages over 37 inches of rain per year, concentrated into a long wet season. When you pull off old siding, you frequently find damaged sheathing, failed housewrap, and compromised window flashing. A siding estimate that doesn't account for probable moisture remediation will either eat your margin or blow up your customer relationship mid-job. Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work builder prompts you to flag conditions during the walkthrough — rotted sheathing, missing WRB, improper window integration — so the written scope covers what you actually expect to find, not just the surface material. **Fiber cement is the dominant material in this market.** HardiePlank and similar fiber cement products have a high share of replacement work in Seattle because of their resistance to moisture and rot. The material cost per square foot is higher than vinyl, installation labor is heavier, and waste factors vary by profile and cut complexity. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you store your actual supplier pricing from local yards like Pacific Coast Building Products or local distribution centers, not national averages that miss regional freight. **Seattle permits siding work in certain conditions.** A straight re-side over existing sheathing often doesn't require a permit in Seattle. But jobs that involve sheathing replacement, structural changes, or work on permitted additions trigger full building permit review under the Seattle Residential Code (SRC), which adopts the IRC with local amendments. Knowing which category your job falls into changes your timeline and your bid price. **Stucco and masonry cladding work requires different labor rates.** The city has a mix of older stucco homes, particularly in First Hill and Madison Valley, where remediation and re-cladding work is specialty labor. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades, and its AI scope builder separates stucco and masonry work from standard lap-siding line items automatically. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Seattle Siding Contractors **1. Walkthrough measurement with AR.** On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture wall planes, window cutouts, and door openings in real time. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates in the output — your customer sees the same transparency you work with. For a typical 1,500 SF Seattle bungalow, you can complete field measurement before you've finished the conversation at the truck. **2. AI scope-of-work generation.** Describe what you observed. The AI turns your notes into a structured scope: substrate condition, WRB replacement, window flashing, material type, profile, finish, and any exclusions you called out. You review and edit. You don't start from a blank document. **3. Priced line items from your cost data.** Pull your saved material costs, apply your labor rates for the Seattle market, and the estimate builds itself. No manual math on square footage, no re-entering supplier prices from memory. **4. Send it.** The bid goes out as a professional document. Customers can review and accept digitally. Elite tier users get Stripe Connect invoicing with $0 platform fee — no percentage cut taken by the software on work you earned. --- ## Pricing That Fits a Siding Operation - **Free forever** — no credit card, no trial clock. Use it to evaluate it on real jobs. - **Pro at $39/seat/month** — full estimating, AR measurement, AI scope builder. - **Elite at $79/seat/month** — adds Stripe Connect invoicing, invoice exports, 0% platform fee. - **Crew at $399/month flat** — for multi-crew operations running multiple bids simultaneously. If you're running a two-crew siding operation in Seattle doing 15 to 25 jobs a month, the time recovered on estimating alone pays for the software by the third job. --- ## Built for the Work, Not for a Demo Estimate.Pro is a field operating system for siding contractors, not a tool designed for a software salesperson to show in a conference room. You use it on the lot, in the driveway, in the rain. It works where the work is.