How Green Shield Prices Your Deck | Green Shield Partner Podcast

Green Shield believes a quote should be a promise, not a guess. While traditional industry pricing relies on vague square-footage estimates, Green Shield uses ArcSite to account for the specific technical variables that actually determine the cost of a build.

The "Dead-Accurate" Difference:

• Beyond Generalizations: Standard quotes often miss the "hidden" work. Green Shield pricing accounts for deck height, angled boards, exact post counts, and even the specific amount of concrete cutting required.
• Fairness by Design: This technical precision ensures that homeowners with straightforward projects never subsidize the costs of more complex builds. You pay for your deck, and nothing else.
• No Mid-Project Surprises: Because the price is calculated simultaneously as the deck is drawn, the contract is "dead accurate." This eliminates the risk of mid-project change orders that traditionally frustrate homeowners.

By using smarter engineering tools, Green Shield provides a locked-in, reliable contract price that reflects the true scope of work. We provide the bridge between elite craftsmanship and total financial transparency. Visit the Green Shield website to schedule an evaluation and get a price you can actually count on.

Adam: It's actually, much more advanced than, just square footage, linear foot of rail.

Brandon: And what would you say that ArcSite's, you know, allowed you to do now versus something that wasn't possible before? Being able to price at the same time as drawing has been probably the biggest, benefit to us because a lot of our competitors, it's all of them that I know of, will price the deck by square footage and linear foot of rail because it's the easiest thing for, someone in the field to build to do. But what we were finding is unless you're extremely, in tune with what products you're using in the whole building practice, it's very difficult to accurately price and that's why you see quotes.

Adam: What Green Shield was able to do is use ArcSite's powerful tool, to create every single product detail. As they draw the deck, it's actually, much more advanced than, just square footage, linear foot of rail. We're able to take things into account like height above deck, height of the deck, the amount of concrete that needs cut, lots of things that you wouldn't be able to necessarily bring in. So, like angled deck boards, for example, how many posts the deck has are all just examples of things that you wouldn't necessarily capture just by going by square foot and linear foot. It'll just never be accurate. So, you could be overcharging a really easy job or undercharging a complex job and you wouldn't really know until the project's done. It's just not fair to the customers that have a more simple deck that they should have to pay to kind of off offset the more complex projects. We want to be able to price super accurately and very specific to what we have, versus maybe something off the shelf that would be, very general or inaccurate, which is very important because the last thing a homeowner would like is a change order midway through the project because, hey, I I priced it wrong. Right? When GreenShield gives you a price, GreenShield's price is right because we're using ArcSight and ArcSight's tools.