Siding Contractor Software in Arkansas

Humidity is what a siding company in Arkansas is really selling against. Wood siding rots at the bottom course, paint fails in three summers, and the termites that are everywhere in this state find the damp wood first. Vinyl and fiber cement are the answer, and the newer subdivisions in Bentonville and Conway are brick on the front and fiber cement or vinyl on the rest, so a lot of the work is partial and lives or dies on matching what is already there.

Storms put siding on claims. The tornado that crossed west Little Rock on March 31, 2023 damaged or destroyed about 2,100 homes, and hail comes most springs. When siding is on a claim, Arkansas's repair-contract law applies to any residential contractor, not just roofers. Before signing, the contractor hands the homeowner a notice in ten-point bold type that they can cancel within three business days after the insurer says in writing that all or part of the claim is not covered, with any money paid returned within ten business days.

Licensing is by the dollar. Any home job over $2,000, labor and materials together, takes a license and a bond from the Contractors Licensing Board, and for siding that is the Residential Home Improvement license, with a business and law test behind it. The roofer registration that came in 2022 is for roofers only, so a company that does both carries both.

The growth is in northwest Arkansas, in Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville, and in the Little Rock suburbs of Conway, Benton, and Bryant. The older frame houses in Little Rock, Fort Smith, and Jonesboro are where the full tear-offs are, with hardboard and wood under whatever went over it. The season runs nearly all year, and the ice storm of January 2009 is the reminder that a winter week can bring trees down through siding across a whole region.