Siding Contractor Software in Alabama

Humidity is what a siding company in Alabama is really selling against. Wood siding rots from the bottom course up, paint fails in a few summers, and the termites find the damp wood first. Vinyl and fiber cement are the answer on most houses. The subdivisions in Madison, Hoover, and Fairhope are brick on the front and fiber cement or vinyl on the rest, so a lot of the work is partial, and a partial job lives or dies on matching what is already there.

Storms put siding on claims. The tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011 destroyed or left uninhabitable nearly 14,000 homes, Sally in September 2020 sat over Baldwin County for a day at 105 miles an hour, and hail comes most springs. Alabama's roofing contract law, with its five-day right to cancel after a denial, is written for roof repair contracts, so siding on a claim runs on the general rules. One of those still applies at the kitchen table. The homeowner has three business days to cancel any sale made in the home, and the contract carries that notice.

Licensing is by the dollar. A siding job over $10,000 takes a home builder license from the Home Builders Licensure Board, and a contractor with a local business license can hold the limited version without an exam. The roofers license, with its $2,500 line and its $10,000 bond, is for roofing only, so a company that does both carries both.

Alabama adopted the 2021 residential code statewide on October 1, 2022, mandatory on paper for every new house, but it is enforced only where a city or county runs a program, so a re-side is inspected in Huntsville and Hoover and nobody comes to look in much of the countryside. On the coast the fastening schedule matters, because Sally's winds worked at every loose panel for a day. The season runs all year, and it is the August heat rather than the January cold that stops a crew.