About Us
About Siding Pros USA, and how we are paid
A short page, because the important part is short. We publish research on siding materials, siding damage and what replacement actually costs, we connect homeowners with independent contractors that do the work, and we are paid for the introduction rather than for the size of the job.
What We Are
A referral service that installs nothing
Siding Pros USA is a referral and connection service for U.S. Homeowners. We are not a siding contractor, not an installer, not a manufacturer and not a building-supply yard. Nobody here holds a nail gun, and that is deliberate: a company that sells whole-house siding has a commercial reason to describe your one damaged wall as a whole-house job, and we wanted to write without that reason.
What we do is read the primary material, the EPA's rules on lead paint and asbestos in older houses, the Department of Energy's work on walls and the moment of re-siding, the Census Bureau's survey of what new houses are actually clad in, NOAA's definitions of damaging wind and hail, manufacturer installation instructions, and turn it into pages that answer the question a homeowner actually typed, including when the honest answer is a repair and not a replacement.
The Bit Everyone Skips
How the money works
When we connect you with an independent local contractor, that contractor pays a referral fee. It is the same fee whether the visit ends in a replaced panel or a replaced house, and it does not change what you pay. There is no arrangement under which a larger job earns us more, and there is no manufacturer paying us for placement in our research.
That structure is why this site is able to say, in writing, that hail-dented aluminum on one wall is a one-wall job, that a house built before 1978 needs a certified firm before anybody scrapes paint, and that the cheapest of three quotes is often the one that has not yet found what is under the old siding. Each of those sentences costs a contractor money to say out loud.
Boundaries
What we will not do
Inspect your house
We can tell you what a crack, a buckle or a soft spot usually means and which material it points at. We cannot tell you what is behind your siding, because that takes a person on a ladder with a probe and a moisture meter.
Publish invented averages
Siding prices vary too much by region, material, the shape of the house and what the tear-off reveals for a national average to be useful. We say what a quote is made of, what moves each line, and how to count your own squares, and we leave the number to the contractor who measured.
Promise anything for a contractor
We do not advertise free inspections, arrival times or workmanship on behalf of independent companies. What they offer is theirs to state and yours to confirm before work starts.
Our editorial standards set out how we source and check what we publish, and contact explains what we can and cannot help with.
Before you call anyone
The flat-fee match — we are paid for the introduction, not for the size of your job
Most siding advice is written by the company that wants to do the work or the company that makes the product. That is not a failing of the people who read it; it is a defect in who is talking: the measurement, the estimate and the invoice come from one party, and no amount of care on your side fixes that.
We are built the other way round. We do not install, repair or sell anything, so the payment reaches us when you are connected to a licensed, insured siding contractor — the same amount whether you need one panel replaced or four walls re-clad. Nobody here has a reason to talk you into the larger number. You can check that rather than take it on trust: how we make money is written down, and this site keeps telling readers when one wall is enough. Why does not everyone work this way? Because a flat fee leaves money on the table every time the job turns out to be big.
Waiting is the one thing that actually costs money. A wall that is open to the weather does not get better and does not wait for a convenient week; the water that gets behind the siding finds the sheathing, the framing and the drywall inside. A cracked panel over a window lets the next storm in. And if it turns out to be one panel and a quarter-hour, say so when you ask. We will tell you, and that answer earns us nothing.
Not for you if: you want a price over the phone — nobody honest gives one without measuring the house; you need a guarantee of arrival within the hour — we cannot promise that for a company we do not run; the building is commercial; or you would rather do it yourself, in which case the pages on this site are written so that you can.