Two days after the wind storm: lifted corners, a soft spot by the hose bib, and a street comparing every rep who knocks.
The setup
The storm did the whole street at once — siding rows loosened on the weather side, corners lifted, one house already tarped at the peak. The homeowner at this door has watched three trucks slow-roll the block today and has a carrier's letter in the mailbox he hasn't opened.
This round is the documented storm posture on the trade where it reads most clearly: siding is the face of the house, the damage is visible from the sidewalk, and the discipline is identical — document honestly, earn the inspection, never promise coverage, never offer to waive a deductible.
“You're the tenth roofer today.”
What the round trains
The storm door knock: stay professional with a homeowner who has heard it all day, and earn the inspection — without ever promising insurance coverage or offering to waive a deductible.
The round trains the storm knock as a documentation exercise: the walk-around findings — the lifted corner, the soft spot, the side the weather hits — carried in the rep's notes and shown plainly, with the ask being an inspection, not a signature.
How Spar scores it
Every round ends in a scorecard — your language, your move, and whether both decision makers stayed in the conversation. This round is graded against the documented storm posture — document honestly, earn the inspection, never promise coverage.
The grade turns on restraint under competition. The scorecard credits findings documented and an inspection earned; any promise about what the carrier will do — or any deductible talk — fails the round on doctrine, however friendly the door felt.
The language scan runs on every round: the system’s words — approve, overall investment, work order, monthly investment plan, move forward — or the scorecard shows you where the wrong words leaked in.
Go deeper: the full objection — “You're the tenth roofer today”; the deep dive — Storm work — the documented storm system; this trade’s other drill — Cold Door Knock; the Siding track — Siding sales training.
Spar’s documented system is trade-agnostic by design: the published position is that the sales psychology and the rebuttals are the same in every in-home trade — only the examples change. This page runs Spar’s documented rounds in a siding setting; it does not present siding-specific scripts.
In sparring, the homeowner pushes back the way yours will — talks back, interrupts, pushes on the money — and the scorecard grades the run against the documented system. Train the siding version until the response is reflex — $29/month. Spar before you knock.