Module 10 · 5 plays
Estimating & Takeoff
The other half of the pricing math: measuring a roof into squares instead of guessing at it, the waste a cut-up roof really eats, what the layers and the deck underneath do to your number, labor priced in crew-hours instead of days, and how to read the estimate a carrier's software wrote. The takeoff sheet hands its three numbers straight to the job-cost sheet in Module 6.
The plays
- M10-01Count the Squares Before You Price the RoofYou price the roof off a drive-by and a feel for what a house that size usually runs. Then the material comes up short on day two, or two pallets go back on…Spreadsheet · Printable card · En español
- M10-02The Waste You Cut Off Is Money You Already BoughtEvery roof you build, somebody drives back to the supplier mid-morning for four more bundles — or a half pallet rides back to the yard and sits there till…Printable card
- M10-03What's Under the Shingles Decides the PriceYou bid it as one layer over good decking. Tuesday morning the crew pulls the first course and finds two more layers and a soft spot the size of a truck…Printable card
- M10-04Stop Bidding Roofs in Days — Bid Them in HoursYou looked at it and said "that's a two-day roof." It took three. The crew rolled onto the next job a day late, that homeowner called twice wondering where…Printable card
- M10-05The Carrier's Estimate Is Written in Software — Learn to Read ItThe adjuster hands you a printout: page after page of coded lines, abbreviations and unit prices, with a total at the bottom. You look at the total, decide…Printable card