Keep this bid so it is still here when the customer calls back. Every number on this form is saved together, under a name you choose, along with the figure it gave you, and restoring one puts the whole job back exactly as you priced it. Mark each one won or lost when you hear — the ones you have not heard back on stay listed as waiting, with how long they have been out. Once a few have come back, this panel says how long yours actually take, and how many are still out past that. Once enough of them have been decided, it also says whether the bids you save here have been landing differently lately than they used to.
Kept in this browser only, on this site’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data clears it — download a backup to keep a copy or open your bids on another device. Bids are kept per tool, so these are the ones you saved here.
Type the house and its openings. You get lap siding boards counted course by course around the doors and windows, house wrap and corner boards, from the same siding engine as the whole-house takeoff. Nothing leaves your browser.
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For a 40 x 30 ft rectangle with 8 ft walls, one 3 ft door and two 3 x 4 ft windows, 7 in exposure and 12 ft boards, the calculator counts 56 courses, 176 boards with 10% waste, 1 roll of house wrap and 9 corner boards of 10 ft. Change any figure to match your plan.
Each course covers one exposure (the reveal, for example 7 in for an 8 in board over a 1 in lap), so the courses are the wall height divided by the exposure, rounded up. The length of every course, cut around doors and windows, is packed into stock boards, and waste is added. This is more exact than dividing square feet by a coverage figure.
Yes. An opening that cuts through a course splits that course's run, so the boards it removes are not counted, but the offcuts are carried into the next course the way a crew works. House wrap is the wall area less the openings plus a lap allowance.
Soffit and fascia, sill and jamb flashing, nails, caulk and paint. Exposure, board length and waste are figures you type from the product you buy, and the result is an estimate to check against your supplier's own takeoff.