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 RoofHow to count roofing squares before you price the roof: measure it plane by plane, add the pitch, and order off a number you actually measured.Spreadsheet · Printable card · En español
- M10-02The Waste You Cut Off Is Money You Already BoughtThe roofing waste factor is money you already bought: how to set it by roof, so nobody drives back for four bundles or strands a half pallet.Printable card
- M10-03What's Under the Shingles Decides the PriceSecond layer, soft decking, rotten sheathing: what's under the shingles decides the price. How to find it before you sign, and price it if you can't.Printable card
- M10-04Stop Bidding Roofs in Days — Bid Them in HoursBid roofs in crew hours, not days: how to work out your own labor hours per square, so the labor line isn't wrong before the first bundle.Printable card
- M10-05The Carrier's Estimate Is Written in Software — Learn to Read ItHow to read the carrier's estimate line by line: the codes, the unit prices and the line items — so you argue in the adjuster's own language.Printable card