Hardie Siding Efficiency

Hardie vs LP within size bands · sq ft per crew-hour

Sq ft per man-hour follows the same shape: Hardie 7.0 · 9.7 · 16.2 · 18.8 against LP 7.5 · 11.5 · 21.3 · 21.8 across the four bands.

The index divides each job's sq ft per crew-hour by the median for its brand and size band, then takes the group median. It removes the job-size effect so a crew that only gets small accent jobs is not penalized.

Crews · headcount known

32 crews qualify; the middle of the table is in the CSV. Two now-inactive crews rank above everyone on crew-hours but have no headcount on file: Amilcar Sosa (102 jobs, index 2.01, one-day jobs) and Rigoberto Sierra-Arias (30 jobs, 2.27). Per person, Hilton Medina's three-man crew is the standout at 33 sq ft per man-hour, roughly 2.5× the Hardie median. Armando Segundo-Garcia's 8-person headcount and 3.6 sq ft per man-hour look like a roster problem rather than a crew problem.

Builders

Meritage and Fieldstone homes sit open six to seven days against a 2.5-day norm; Toll Brothers four. Those are the builders where sequencing with other trades, not crew speed, is most likely eating the hours. Visionary combines slow jobs with the highest pay per sq ft.

Division and area

Material and product

Board and batten and 8¼" lap install at the same pace once size is accounted for. ColorPlus jobs sit open six days against 2.5, the clearest product effect in the data, though 158 jobs is a modest cell. Trim brand makes no difference. Buildings look faster only because they are big.

Crew size, year and return trips

Big crews move the most wall per day; small crews are the most productive per person. LP held an index near 1.00 in every year while Hardie drifted from 1.12 in 2023 to 0.86 so far in 2026. Return trips cost the most of anything measured: 29% of Hardie jobs carry a second siding task, and those jobs run at two thirds the pace.

• Hours are not clocked. Siding is piece-rate and timecards do not link to jobs, so hours are the Siding task's window from Start to Completed, clipped to Monday–Saturday 7am–5pm, with each crew-day shared across that crew's concurrently open siding tasks. This is the same idea as TrackVia's own "VGI Task Effeciency" view, but that view uses raw calendar hours, which this analysis replaces.
• Headcount is today's roster. Man-hours multiply crew hours by the team's current Active Employees. Crews that changed size, and crews now inactive, are mis-measured; the crew-hour and index columns do not depend on headcount.
• Footage is the estimate. Net sq ft is the Jobs footage fields minus deductions, not as-built. Pay per sq ft is nearly constant at about $1.50, which says footage and pay agree.
• Filters. Pay above zero, at least one work hour, at least 200 sq ft, open no more than 25 work days. 5,670 jobs with a 2023+ Siding task became 4,737. Brand comes from the job's scope of work for 2025+ jobs and the builder's default before that.
• Anchors. Jobs footage: Claude Siding Footage Jobs, view 3045 (17,617 jobs). Tasks: Claude Siding Tasks Efficiency, view 3046 (260,390 tasks, read newest first back to early 2022). Crews: Task Teams view 114. Both Claude views are read-only pulls and safe to delete.