Siding Contractor Software in West Virginia

Weather is what a siding company in West Virginia sells against, and the state gets all of it. The summers are humid enough to rot wood from the bottom course up, the winters bring ice and snow to the mountains, and the wind comes down the hollows hard enough to work panels loose. Vinyl owns the market on price and on the fact that it takes the freeze and thaw, and fiber cement is gaining in the Eastern Panhandle subdivisions around Martinsburg and Charles Town, where the houses are brick on the front and siding on the rest, so a lot of the work is partial. A partial job lives or dies on matching what is already there.

Storms put siding on claims. The floods of June 23, 2016 destroyed more than 1,500 homes and businesses in Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties, and the derecho of June 29, 2012 put trees through walls across the state and left 670,000 customers without power. West Virginia'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 the general rules. The one that always applies is the three business days the homeowner has to cancel any sale made in the home.

West Virginia licenses at $5,000. A re-side that reaches it, and most do, takes a license from the Contractor Licensing Board with the Residential classification, a trade exam, a business and law exam, and a wage bond affidavit behind it, and the board's field inspectors check for it.

West Virginia has a statewide building code, but each county and city has to adopt it before it means anything. A re-side in Morgantown or Martinsburg is inspected. In much of the state nobody comes to look. The older frame houses in Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, and Wheeling are where the full tear-offs are, with hardboard and wood under whatever went over it. The season runs from April into November, and vinyl gets brittle below freezing, so the mountain winter stops a crew for months.