How Vinyl Siding Companies Estimate There Jobs: 

A square is a term used by Vinyl Siding Companies to price vinyl siding. One square represents 100 square feet of wall coverage on a structure. So a 10x10 area of your exterior wall is one square.

 What Vinyl Siding Per Square Price Should Include:

•  All the necessary siding material.
•  preparation of wall surface including replacesing any rotted wood.
•  Necessary labor to install the vinyl siding.
•  Insulation under lament under the siding.
•  Trim for windows, overhangs, fascia and soffett. 
•  Up to six pairs of shutters, light blocks,dryer vents and faucet blocks.
• Seamless aluminum gutter and down spouts.

 Extra cost will be incured for stripping of existing siding, specialty siding such as premium colors or vinyl shakes or ornate accessories such as window mantels and other details.  

The First thing to do is walk around your house with a tape measure and note pad and get the width and height of all the walls you can. If you have an overhang add a foot. Add your widths and heights together to get you total square feet and that's the number of squares you have. That's really all there is to it.

Tools needed to measure Vinyl Siding:

tape measure, calculator, paper & pencil

Special considerations: You are just trying to get an idea of how much your siding will cost. So, you don't have to be exact with your measurements. By all means measure in Feet and round your measurements.

Example: 21 feet 8 inches could be 21 feet or 21.5 feet Keep it simple.

Siding prices are: for the purpose of this "How To Estimate Your Siding Costs" we are using a Top grade vinyl siding price of $6.50 per sq. ft. which includes all the details listed above including 1/2'' insulation under the Vinyl Siding and PVC aluminum for the trim.

1) Pick a side of your home and draw the walls that will receive siding, breaking it into rectangles and triangles. 

2) Now measure those rectangles and triangles. Write the measurements down on your drawing.

3) Continue around your house repeating steps 1 & 2, until you've measured your entire house.

4) Now multiply your figures to come up with the square footage of each section. Add them all together. Now you have your house's exterior square footage.

5) Last step, multiply the figure you came up with in step #4 times the siding cost per square foot. Example: $6.50 * 2300 = $14,950.00 Now you have a good ball park estimate of what your siding will cost.

Fill out the form to the right for a Ball Park estimate of your home.

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