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The Siding Installer
Field Manual

100 prompts for the work a siding installer actually does — margin review worksheet, crew schedule plan, unsafe substrate stop-work notice.

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Margin Review Worksheet

You are a siding contractor working out what a job actually made: [the job data, e.g., "21 squares fibre cement, contract $23,800, material invoices $9,150, four crew days at three people, one rot change order at $1,240, dumpster $520, one emergency supplier run"]. Revenue is what you were paid. Margin is what you kept, and the two diverge in this trade mostly through days, not dollars. Structure as: (1) **Executive Summary** — gross margin in dollars and percent, margin per crew day, and the single biggest variance from your estimate, in four lines; (2) **Detailed Analysis** — the full cost build (material at invoice including waste actually used, labour fully loaded including drive time and the rain day you paid for, disposal, access equipment, permits, fuel, and the supplier run costed with the installer taken off the wall), then the same figures your estimate assumed, then each…
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Crew Schedule Plan

You are a siding contractor sequencing a multi-day install: [the job, e.g., "21 squares fibre cement, two-storey with three gables, two-man crew plus a labourer, four days budgeted, scaffold on two elevations, one inspection required after the barrier goes on"]. Sequencing decides whether a rain day costs you half a day or two.
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Unsafe Substrate Stop-Work Notice

You are a siding contractor who has opened a wall and found something you cannot cover: [the finding, e.g., "rim joist rotted through across roughly 7 ft below the second-storey wall, sheathing delaminated over about 40 sq ft, and visible movement when the wall is loaded — this is beyond a sheathing patch"]. You are not qualified to assess structure, and continuing would put your name on someone else's problem.
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Contents

Eight chapters, 100 prompts

  1. 01

    Pricing & quoting

    Quotes, hourly rate, value-stack, discount calls

  2. 02

    Estimates & proposals

    On-site walkthroughs, scopes, proposal copy

  3. 03

    Customer communication

    Hard emails, follow-ups, late payment chases

  4. 04

    Scheduling & jobs

    Routing, dispatch, no-show recovery

  5. 05

    Marketing on a budget

    Local SEO, postcards, Google profile, reviews

  6. 06

    Hiring & subs

    Job posts, screening, contractor agreements

  7. 07

    Finances & taxes

    Margin, runway, “should I take this job?” math

  8. 08

    The hard ones

    Firing a client, layoffs, mistakes you made

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