Every siding price we write is built line by line from a measurement of your house. Here is what those lines look like on a typical Massachusetts job, from our own measured estimates.
There is no honest "price per house" for siding. Two homes with the same square footage can be thousands of dollars apart, because most of the work is not the flat wall — it is the trim around every window and door, the corners, the soffit and fascia, the gutters and whatever we find under the old siding. So we measure, and we price each of those pieces separately. Below is what our measured houses actually contained.
Medians from our measured estimates, 2022–2026, signed and unsigned. "Middle half" = the range the middle 50% of houses fell in.
Each of these is measured on your house and appears as its own line with its own quantity. That is why your price is yours, and why it can be checked.
The wall area in squares (100 sq ft), priced by the product line you choose — vinyl, insulated vinyl or fiber cement such as James Hardie. The typical house: 29 squares.
Removing the old siding, hauling it away and covering the sheathing with house wrap before the new siding goes on.
Every window and door gets J-channel or trim and flashing. The typical house has 24 windows and 3 doors — often the biggest labor item after the walls.
Wide openings need their own trim and capping; 61% of our houses had at least one garage door.
The board along the roof edge, wrapped or replaced. Typical: 264 ft.
The underside of the eaves, often vented. Typical: 175 ft.
Inside and outside corners, water table, frieze boards and shutters where the house has them.
Included on 88% of estimates, because the fascia work is the right moment to replace them. Typical: 128 ft.
Rotted boards under the old siding only show once it is off; replacing them is a separate line, not part of the per-square price.
The building permit, the dumpster and staging. We pull the permit; it is a line on the proposal, not a surprise later.
| Line item | Unit | Typical (median) | Middle half of houses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wall area | squares | 29 | 23–35 |
| Windows | each | 24 | 18–32 |
| Doors | each | 3 | 3–4 |
| Garage doors | each | 2 | 1–2 (61% of houses) |
| Fascia | linear ft | 264 | 200–321 |
| Soffit | linear ft | 175 | 140–286 |
| Gutters | linear ft | 128 | 99–150 (88% of estimates) |
Median written estimate for a measured house — middle half $36,500–$58,000, signed and unsigned.
Openings, not size, move the price most. A colonial with 32 windows costs more to side than a larger ranch with 15. Height adds staging and time on second and third floors. Product line — fiber cement costs more per square than vinyl. Trim scope — wrapping every window and the full fascia, or only the walls. And what is underneath: rotted sheathing found after tear-off is replaced as its own line.
We measure every wall, opening and trim run, then price each line separately: siding by the square (100 sq ft of wall), trim and J-channel around each window and door, corners, soffit and fascia by the linear foot, gutters by the foot, plus tear-off, house wrap and disposal. The total is the sum of those lines, not a price per house size.
In our measured estimates, the median house had 29 squares of wall (middle half 23–35), 24 windows, 3 doors and 264 feet of fascia. 61% had garage doors to trim around.
The median written estimate for a measured house was $48,500, and the middle half fell between $36,500 and $58,000.
Because most of the labor is in the details: the number of windows and doors to wrap, corners, how high the walls are, soffit and fascia runs, gutters and any rotted sheathing found under the old siding — and the product line chosen. A house with many openings can cost more than a larger house with few.
Yes — from proposals we wrote for measured Massachusetts homes, both signed and not signed (a written estimate for a measured house is a real price). We publish only medians and middle halves; no single job, name or address.
How we calculated this. Quantities come from the measurements in proposals we wrote for Massachusetts homes, 2022–2026 — signed and not signed, because a written estimate for a measured house is a real price. Each house counts once. Prices are the siding part of each proposal, rounded to $500. We publish medians and middle halves only — never a single job, name or address.
Data as of November 9, 2026 · updated automatically every night.
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