St. Louis, MO
SIDING ESTIMATING.

## Siding Estimates in St. Louis Move Fast — Your Bids Need To Match St. Louis homeowners replace siding for two reasons: age and weather. The metro sits in a severe hail corridor, and a single storm system can drop a hundred re-siding jobs into the market inside a week. When that happens, the contractors who close work are the ones who send a priced scope the same day they walk the job — not three days later. Estimate.Pro is built to get you from walkthrough to sendable bid in 8 minutes. That is not a marketing number. It is the median time logged by siding contractors using the app across all supported jobs. --- ## What Makes Siding Estimating Different in St. Louis **Façade variety is high.** Older neighborhoods like Soulard, Benton Park, and Webster Groves have brick veneer fronts with wood or fiber-cement on the sides and rear. You are frequently quoting a mixed-material job, not a straight vinyl wrap. Your estimate needs separate line items for each substrate, each profile, and each corner treatment — or you eat the difference. **Insurance work is common.** After hail events, a large share of your pipeline comes through adjuster-approved scopes. You need to match Xactimate line items closely enough that supplements do not drag on for weeks. Estimate.Pro lets you build your own saved material cost workspace so your unit prices are consistent and defensible on every job. **Permit pull timing matters.** St. Louis City and St. Louis County operate separate permitting authorities with different fee schedules and inspection timelines. Quoting the same permit cost across both jurisdictions is a mistake that shows up on your margin report. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Siding Contractors **AR measurement on-site.** On supported devices, the app uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture wall heights, window and door openings, and soffit runs. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates in the scope — so you know exactly where you need a tape confirmation before you finalize. **AI scope-of-work generation.** Walk the job, capture what you see, and the app drafts a line-item scope: field panels, starter strip, J-channel, corner posts, house wrap, fasteners, waste factor, and labor. You review and adjust. You do not start from a blank spreadsheet. **Saved cost workspaces.** Your vinyl pricing from ABC Supply, your James Hardie pricing from your preferred distributor — load it once, apply it to every bid. When material costs shift (and in St. Louis they shift with the seasons), you update one workspace and every future estimate reflects it. **$0 platform fee on Pro+.** If you collect payment through Stripe Connect on a Pro or Elite seat, the platform fee is 0%. On the Free tier it is 3%. For a siding contractor running $15,000 to $40,000 jobs, that is real money. --- ## Pricing That Fits a Single Crew or a Full Operation - **Free** — No credit card. No expiration. Core estimating features. - **Pro** — $39 per seat per month. Full AR measurement, saved cost workspaces. - **Elite** — $79 per seat per month. Stripe Connect invoicing, export workflows. - **Crew** — $399 per month flat for unlimited seats. Built for companies running multiple crews. --- ## St. Louis-Specific Details You Need to Know Before You Bid St. Louis County requires a building permit for full siding replacement on most residential structures. The city of St. Louis operates its own Building Division under a separate code adoption cycle from the county. If you work both sides of the city-county boundary — and most St. Louis siding contractors do — you are dealing with two permit windows, two fee schedules, and two inspection protocols on similar jobs. Labor rates in the St. Louis metro for skilled siding installers have tracked above the Missouri statewide average for two consecutive years, driven by commercial demand in the Cortex and midtown corridors pulling experienced hands off residential work. When you are pricing labor, use your actual crew cost, not state averages. Hail damage drives a measurable volume of siding work every spring and early summer. The metro's position in the central U.S. hail belt means April through June is your surge period. Contractors who have template scopes ready — and can send a bid the afternoon of the inspection — close significantly more insurance-adjacent work than those building estimates from scratch each time. --- ## Build Your First Estimate Free No credit card. No demo call required. Sign up, walk your next job, and have a priced scope in your client's inbox before you leave the driveway.