Siding Contractor Software in Connecticut

Connecticut's houses are old, and that is the siding market. The statewide median build year is 1966, the sixth oldest housing stock in the country, and the Capes and colonials of Fairfield and Hartford counties have had two or three skins already. Under the vinyl there is often aluminum from the 1960s, hardboard from the 1970s, and cedar clapboard under both, so a full tear-off is the normal job, and a partial job lives or dies on matching what is already there. Vinyl owns the market on price and on the freeze and thaw. Fiber cement is gaining in Glastonbury, Simsbury, and Cheshire, and on the shoreline the salt air eats fasteners, so stainless is the spec.

Weather puts siding on claims. Sandy stripped the shoreline on October 29, 2012 and damaged about 3,000 homes, Irene destroyed coastal houses in August 2011, and the October 2011 snowstorm brought trees through walls across the state with 880,000 customers in the dark. The remnants of Ida flooded Fairfield and New Haven counties in September 2021. Connecticut has no deductible statute and no roofing-specific claim law, so siding on a claim runs on the general rules, and the one that always applies is the home improvement contract.

Connecticut registers every home improvement contractor at $200. A siding company carries a registration from the Department of Consumer Protection, $20,000 in liability coverage, and a $100 a year payment into the Guaranty Fund, and writes every job into the state's form of contract, with the four dates, the registration number, and the three-business-day right to cancel attached in duplicate. Work done inside those three days is done at the company's own risk.

The 2022 State Building Code applies statewide, and every town's building official inspects a re-side. The season runs from April into November. Vinyl gets brittle below freezing, and the Connecticut winter stops a crew for months.