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Siding contractor website design for Lake County & McHenry County

Siding gets bought two ways. After a windstorm, when a homeowner needs the panels back on before the next rain, and years later by choice, when the faded vinyl finally has to go. Your website has to win both, and they are won in completely different ways.

Firefighter ownedBefore-and-after gallery built inEnglish + SpanishYou own the site
Drag the lineStorm damage to new
The same wall, the morning after and the week after. On a siding company’s site every storm job gets this slider, with the insurance questions answered right under it.
  1. 1Search
  2. 2Tap
  3. 3Call
Built to convert

Two taps from Google to your phone ringing.

After a storm, half the street is searching the same thing on the same afternoon. The company that phone can call in two taps gets the first look. Stonecap, our exteriors demo, is built that way.

Our sites
  1. Search
  2. Tap the result
  3. Tap Call
A typical builder site
  1. Search
  2. Tap the result
  3. Open the menu
  4. Find Contact
  5. Fill a form
  6. Wait for a reply
  • Tap to call on every screenA call bar sits under their thumb from the first screen to the last.
  • Tap to text a photo of the storm damagePeople would rather send a picture than explain it, and you price it from the truck.
  • A form that never loses a leadEvery request lands in your inbox and in our back office, spam filtered out.
  • Calls you can countEvery tap on Call and Text is counted, so you know what the site brought in.
  • Your trade and town up topSo Google, ChatGPT and the homeowner all know you work where they live.
  • English and SpanishEvery site, both languages, no extra charge.

The whole site, not just the first screen.

Stonecap Roofing & Exteriors, a made-up exterior contractor (roofing, siding, windows, gutters) built by Salty Web Co as a demo, on a laptop
The same demo exterior contractor site on a phone
Stonecap Roofing & Exteriors · one of our demo buildsA made-up company, not a client, shown for the standard: vinyl and fiber cement siding listed beside roofs, windows and gutters, text-a-photo, and both languages. Open the demo
The problem

Siding is two different sales under the same name.

A storm repair and a whole-house re-side are bought by different people for different reasons, and most siding sites only talk to one of them.

The repair call starts with one question

After a windstorm the homeowner wants the hole covered before the next rain, and the first thing they ask is whether you can match what’s already on the house. A site that says plainly how you handle a color that’s been discontinued gets that call instead of the next listing down.

A re-side is a decision that takes months

Nobody re-sides a house on impulse. They compare vinyl with fiber cement, try colors on their phone at night, ask whoever else lives there, and come back. If your site has nothing to come back to but a phone number, they come back to someone else’s.

Every exterior looks alike in brochure photos

Siding is the most visible job on a house, and most siding sites run the same manufacturer photos. A homeowner in Libertyville wants to see a ranch like theirs, before and after, from the street. Your photos can do that; the brochure never will.

After a storm, every truck looks the same

When a big wind or hail event comes through, crews selling roofs, siding and gutters knock on the same doors, and the homeowner checks every name on the same phone. A real local site with your own jobs and your own reviews is what separates you from the truck that will be gone by next month.

What it takes

What a siding site needs before the next windstorm.

Six things, for the repair call and the re-side both.

Before and after, from the curb

The most convincing thing a siding contractor can show is the same house twice: same spot, same angle, ideally from the street. We build the gallery to read on a phone, sorted by material and by town.

Vinyl, fiber cement and engineered wood, side by side

Homeowners want to know the difference in looks, upkeep and rough cost before they ask for a quote. A plain comparison in your words, naming the product lines you actually install, makes you the one who explained it.

Storm repair and the claim, explained

What wind damage on siding looks like, what to photograph before anything comes off the wall, and what the adjuster visit involves. Written as explanation, never as a promise about what a claim will pay. Roofs too? See our roofing website design page.

Color tools that help, not distract

Several siding manufacturers offer online color visualizers. Link the ones for the lines you install, then put your own photos of finished colors next to them, because a color on a screen and the same color on a north wall in February are not the same thing.

Permits and paperwork, said out loud

Grayslake, Libertyville and Mundelein all list siding as work that needs a village permit. Say that you pull it, and that you hand over the written contract and the consumer rights pamphlet Illinois requires on home repair jobs over $1,000. Careful homeowners read that as the opposite of a door-knocker.

Financing and the towns you cover, honestly

If you offer financing through a lender, say so and say who approves it; if you don’t, say how you take payment. Then name the towns you actually work in, each with a real job, instead of thirty pages where only the town name changes.

Proof

An exteriors demo, clearly labelled.

Straight answer: no siding company has hired us yet. The site on the laptop above is Stonecap Roofing & Exteriors, a made-up company we built so you can see the work, and it says so on every page. The live site we point people to is Creative Concrete Company in Palatine, a paying client in a different trade.

What the demo does for a siding contractor

It treats the outside of the house as one job, because that is how most homeowners think about it.

  • Vinyl and fiber cement siding sit in the same list as roofs, windows and gutters, so a re-side lead can ask about the trim and windows in the same call.
  • Text a photo sits next to the call button; a picture of the torn wall explains more than a paragraph.
  • Storm damage has its own page in the menu, with the adjuster visit explained in plain words.
  • Free inspections and written estimates are stated up front, before anyone fills in a form.
  • Every review on it is marked as a sample. Yours would be your real Google reviews, quoted exactly.
  • Spanish is one tap away, the same page in both languages.

If you’re a siding contractor in Lake or McHenry County, you could be the first real one on this page. The mockup is free whether or not you go ahead.

Creative Concrete Company homepage, a live client site built by Salty Web Co
creativeconcretecompany.comA live client site in a different trade, shown for the standard of the build, not as siding experience.
Pricing

Know the number before we roll.

Every project starts with a free mockup, and every build splits 50/50 — half down to start, half to launch. Nothing hourly, nothing hidden.

Which one fits?

A two-person repair crew and a company running several install crews need different things. Here’s the usual starting point for each.

Owner-operator, repairs and re-sides

Working Fire

Up to five pages: storm repair, re-siding, a materials comparison, the towns you cover, and a before-and-after gallery.

See Working Fire →
Several crews, or siding with windows and gutters

Second Alarm

Eight to ten pages so vinyl, fiber cement, storm repair, windows and gutters each rank on their own, with every old page forwarded if you already have a site.

See Second Alarm →
Selling trim or accessories direct?

Task Force

If customers buy trim, shutters or accessories from you, a proper store with a cart that works on a phone.

See Task Force →

Just need the storm repair number findable before the next wind? The Attack Line puts one page up in about a week, or in 24–72 hours on a rush, for an extra fee. Tell us on the form what you’re weighing and we’ll point you at the cheapest plan that does it.

Every build ships with click-to-call, tap-to-text, a lead form that never loses a lead, spam protection, English and Spanish, and call tracking events. Standard on every tier — not upsells.

First, get it built.

One-time builds. Every one splits 50/50 — half down to start, half to launch.

The Attack Line

$1,000

Single-page site + privacy & terms · $500 to start, $500 at launch

  • Custom one-page website, plus your privacy & terms pages
  • Mobile-first, fast-loading build
  • Contact form + click-to-call
  • Job photo gallery
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Rush launch in 24–72 hours available, for an extra fee
  • 1 round of revisions · live in about a week
Most popular

Working Fire

$2,500

Up to 5 pages · $1,250 to start, $1,250 at launch

  • Everything in The Attack Line
  • Up to 5 custom pages
  • Job photo gallery built to sell work
  • Service & service-area pages for local search
  • 30 days of free post-launch edits
  • 2 rounds of revisions · live in about two weeks
Best for roofing & high-ticket trades

Second Alarm

$4,500

8–10 pages · $2,250 to start, $2,250 at launch

  • Everything in Working Fire, expanded to 8–10 pages
  • Your Google rankings come with you — every old URL mapped and redirected, nothing 404s
  • Storm damage & insurance claim page, built before the season hits
  • Search Console set up with a before-and-after baseline, so you can see it held
  • Google Business Profile optimized, not just switched on
  • Schema markup and local SEO foundation
  • A quote request form that gets the job details up front
  • Search & Rescue migration included free
  • 3 rounds of revisions · live in about three weeks

Search & Rescue

Already have a website? We don’t move your domain, and you keep your search history. Every old page forwards to the right place, so nothing 404s and nothing gets lost — your rankings come with you.

Included free inside Second Alarm

Then keep it working.

Month-to-month. No contract, cancel anytime, and you own your site either way.

Standing Watch

$49/month

Keeps your site running

  • Fast, secure hosting + SSL
  • Daily backups & security updates
  • Content edits done for you — a couple of changes a month
  • Uptime monitoring 24/7
  • Cancel anytime — you own your site
Gets the phone ringing

Running Calls

$149/month

Gets you found

  • Everything in Standing Watch
  • Google Business Profile posts every month — your jobs in front of local searchers
  • Review requests set up, and every review answered
  • Text us job photos — we get them on your site and your profile
  • A new seasonal service page each quarter, timed to your busy season
  • Quarterly listing check across Google, BBB, Angi and Yelp so your details still match
  • Monthly numbers from Google — calls, direction requests, clicks, and the searches that found you

Selling a product, not a service?

Same flat pricing, built for the brands our contractors buy from. A real store, and the sheets a buyer asks for.

For product brands & online stores

Task Force

$3,500

Store build · $1,750 to start, $1,750 at launch

  • Everything in Working Fire, expanded for commerce
  • A real store — pack sizes, options and a cart that works on a phone
  • Product pages built to sell, with your photos cleaned up and matched
  • Google Merchant Center set up, so your products show up in Google Shopping
  • A retailer & investor page, for when a buyer asks what you’ve got
  • Sell sheet and spec sheet, print-ready for the meeting
  • Shipping, returns, privacy and terms pages drafted for you
  • 2 rounds of revisions · live in about three weeks
Intro price

Supply Line

Was $199 now $149/month

Introductory price, going up to $199. Start now and keep $149.

Keeps the product moving

  • Everything in Standing Watch
  • Product and pack updates — new photos, prices, specs
  • New products added to your store and Google Merchant Center as you launch them
  • Review requests to your buyers, and every review answered
  • Sell sheet and retailer page kept current as UPCs, case packs and ratings firm up
  • Monthly numbers — what sold, what pages drove it, where buyers came from
  • Cancel anytime — you own your site

Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude any applicable taxes, domain registration, and third-party service fees. The free mockup is genuinely free with no obligation to buy; it stays our property unless you hire us and pay in full. Full details in our Terms of Service.

Straight answers

Questions siding contractors put to us.

What does a siding company website cost?
Three flat builds. The Attack Line is $1,000 for a single page plus privacy and terms. Working Fire is $2,500 for up to five pages and fits most owner-operators. Second Alarm is $4,500 for eight to ten pages, for companies with storm repair, vinyl, fiber cement and windows to rank separately. Half is paid to start and half at launch, with no hourly billing.
Should the site talk about insurance claims?
Yes, as plain explanation and never as a promise. What wind damage on siding looks like, what to photograph, what the adjuster does, and what happens when the old color can’t be matched. Illinois law also says a contractor can’t advertise or promise to pay any part of a homeowner’s insurance deductible, so we won’t write that, and saying so plainly sets you apart from the crews who do.
We do roofs too. Does our license go on the site?
If the site advertises roofing, yes. Illinois requires the name and number from your state roofing license on contracts, bids and advertisements involving roofing work. That license is written around roofs, though, not siding, so on the siding pages what a homeowner can actually check is your insurance, the permits you pull and your reviews. Those go near the top.
Is Spanish worth it for a siding company here?
In a lot of Lake County towns, many families are more comfortable in Spanish, and re-siding a whole house is a big purchase to make in a second language. The switch costs nothing extra on any plan, and the Spanish is written by people, not a translation widget.
Our job photos aren’t great. Is a gallery still worth it?
It’s worth more than anything else on the site, and the photos don’t need to be professional. A phone photo from the street, taken from the same spot before and after, beats any brochure image, and the gallery grows with every job instead of staying the same three stock pictures.

Salty Web Co

Round Lake, IL 60073
(224) 225-9268
info@saltywebco.com
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Where we work

We build for siding and exterior contractors in Lake County, McHenry County and the rest of the northwest suburbs, and the whole job works by phone, text and email when a sit-down isn’t practical. If your crews cover towns outside that area, that is fine too. Gutters or exterior painting as well? See our gutter and painting pages.

Free mockup

Find out what your site would look like after the next big wind.

Send us the work you want more of, storm repair or full re-sides, and the towns you cover. We’ll design your homepage and show it to you before you spend a cent; if it misses, you walk away owing nothing.

  1. Send this form. Two minutes, no card, no commitment.
  2. We respond within one business day and ask how your work comes in.
  3. Your free mockup is ready within 3 days. You pay nothing unless you love it.

Rather talk? Call or text (224) 225-9268.

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