Hardie Siding Efficiency

Job size · Hardie jobs

Half of Hardie jobs are under 1,000 sq ft: siding accents on stucco homes. Those jobs cost 16% more per sq ft in labor and install at a third of the pace of a full-siding building. For reference, LP jobs run 20 sq ft per man-hour overall, but they are three times larger; within the same size band LP is within 5 to 10 percent of Hardie on small jobs and up to 29 percent ahead on 2,000 to 4,000 sq ft jobs.

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. Split jobs read slow because they are the jobs that ran long enough to cross a Thursday payroll close (first task closed Monday or Friday in 81% of them), so the split is a symptom of a long job, not a cause. The 42 two-crew jobs are the big, hard ones where a second crew was added for speed.

"Needed more" means Hardie board products (lap, panel, trim, corners, shake) ordered after the crew's Siding task had already started, from the 2026 PO line items. Staged deliveries are normal (85% of jobs receive material in more than one delivery), and paint and consumable orders costed to Siding are excluded, so this is the narrowest defensible test of a crew running short. 469 jobs. The lap ratio divides lap sq ft ordered (12' boards, exposure = width minus 1¼") by the job's net lap footage.

Crews · share of board dollars ordered after the crew started

Prudente, Fuentes, Ramirez and Juarez both re-order more and order more lap than the footage calls for (ratios 1.12 to 1.28), the pattern waste or cut loss would leave. Ramirez's 1.28 is the largest in the data. Roberto Cruz's 13% sits on 326 sq ft accent jobs where one extra box swings the ratio, and most of it is will-call. Olman Sierra, Danilo-Baquedano and Nollan Sierra run low re-orders and order lap at or under net footage.

Builders and divisions · same measure

Pulte, Visionary and Meritage lead by a wide margin, and Visionary alone accounts for most will-call pickups. That points at takeoffs and plan changes on those builders rather than at any one crew. The multi-year cost view agrees that crews are fairly uniform: siding material dollars per net sq ft on all 2,937 Hardie jobs since 2023, size-adjusted, puts nearly every crew between 0.92 and 1.05 of typical; the outliers above 1.2 are small St. George accent crews.

Caveats: ordering is done by the office from footage, so a re-order can mean a short takeoff, a plan change, damage or waste, and the PO data does not say which. Lap ratios assume 12-foot boards against estimated, not as-built, footage. Cells under 10 jobs are fragile. The leftover-material checkbox on the task would be the direct waste signal and is not in this pull.

• 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.