Vinyl siding cost in Boise, ID

Why two Boise quotes can differ

• Wall area is not floor area

  A 2,000 sq ft house usually has more wall area than floor area once you count gables and two stories. Measure the wall, not the floor.

• Style

  Clapboard vinyl siding runs $4-$7 per sq ft installed; board-and-batten is $5-$9 (HomeGuide).

• Old siding removal

  Taking the old siding off costs $0.70-$2.00 per sq ft. Check that disposal is included.

Is Boise cheap or dear? The local comparison

Contractors rarely work more than an hour or two from home, so the neighboring metros set a rough ceiling and floor for your quotes. Midpoints for 2,100 sq ft of wall range from $15,500 to $17,700 across Boise and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Boise comes in at #180 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $22,700; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $13,500 (midpoints, 2,100 sq ft of wall). Statewide, Boise is 0% above the Idaho figure.

Other Idaho metros

Cities with a workforce like Boise's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Boise against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Related projects, priced for Boise

Because every project leans on different trades, Boise's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, roof replacement runs +3% and attic insulation −7%.

When to schedule vinyl siding in Boise

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Boise Air Terminal (5 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

February through June and September through November are the stretches where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Boise (8 of 12 months). January and December have an average daytime high under 45°F; July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January and December the average high stays below 45°F. Sealants, adhesives and some materials, such as vinyl, are harder to install well in the cold, and short daylight cuts the working day.

Boise gets about 12 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 18 inches of snow. The wettest months are January, May and December (1.5 inches in December). Inside the workable window, June and September are the driest, at 0.8 and 0.4 inches. The station averages about 55 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

Cost by quality level and size in Boise

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Boise wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 3 common sizes.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 3 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Boise is 0.90 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 60%) the local median is $24.45 an hour, which is 16% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $21.63 and $30.30 an hour. BLS counts 4,080 of them working in the area, 104.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $22.84 an hour, in line with the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $19.98 and $25.18 an hour. About 4,700 work in the metro. That is 120.0 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For sheet metal workers (47-2211, weighted 10%) the local median is $26.89 an hour, which is 9% below the national $29.71. The middle half of them earn between $18.09 and $36.24 an hour. BLS counts 860 of them working in the area, 22.0 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 7.7), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($30.30 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $1,000. At the 25th percentile ($21.63) it shrinks by about $490. The total moves by 6.5% or 3.1%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 391,790 jobs in the Boise City area. That makes it the 67th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.25% of US employment.