Siding Contractor Software in Mississippi

Humidity is what a siding company in Mississippi 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, Brandon, and Southaven 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 that went through Rolling Fork on March 24, 2023 took the homes of about a third of the town, Katrina in 2005 damaged or destroyed about 158,000 houses on the coast, and hail comes most springs. Mississippi's roofing law, with its five-day right to cancel and its ban on paying the deductible, is written for roof contracts, so siding on a claim runs on ordinary rules. Even so, the adjuster who writes for the roof often writes for two walls of siding, and the homeowner asks what it costs to do the other two so the colors match.

Licensing is by the dollar. A siding job over $10,000 takes a residential remodeler license from the State Board of Contractors, with a business and law exam and a trade exam behind it, and the state asks for no bond. A full re-side clears that line. A two-wall repair after a storm often does not, which is part of why so many trucks with out-of-state plates show up after one.

Mississippi has no mandatory statewide residential code, and nearly half its counties have never adopted one, so a re-side is inspected in Madison and not in the next county over. The five coastal counties have had to enforce wind codes since 2006, so on the coast the fastening schedule is checked. The season runs all year, and it is the August heat rather than the January cold that stops a crew.