Birmingham, AL
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Birmingham Move Fast — Your Bid Has to Move Faster Birmingham sits in one of the most active storm corridors in the Southeast. After a hail event or a line of severe thunderstorms rolls through Jefferson County, homeowners start calling every roofer on their list at the same time. The contractor who gets a professional, itemized bid in front of them first wins the job. The one who shows up two days later with a handwritten number on a notepad does not. Estimate.Pro is built for that window. Median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid is 8 minutes. --- ## What Makes Roofing Estimating Different in Birmingham **Pitch and decking complexity.** The older housing stock in neighborhoods like Avondale, Crestwood, and Southside runs steep — 8:12 and 10:12 pitches are common. Those slopes affect shingle quantities, labor hours, and safety equipment costs in ways a flat price-per-square misses. Estimate.Pro calculates pitch-adjusted waste factors automatically. **Storm vs. full replacement vs. repair.** Birmingham roofers quote all three job types in a single week. The scope of work differs dramatically. Estimate.Pro generates a distinct line-item scope for each scenario rather than forcing you to edit a generic template. **AL residential permitting.** Jefferson County requires a permit for full roof replacements, and the city of Birmingham enforces its own inspection schedule on top of the county baseline. Estimate.Pro lets you embed the local permit line into every estimate so it never gets left out of your bid total. **Material costs on the ground in Birmingham.** Shingle prices at suppliers in the metro — ABC Supply on Oxmoor Road, Beacon Building Products on Pinson Valley Parkway — move with fuel surcharges and regional demand. Your saved material cost workspace in Estimate.Pro stores your current costs from your actual suppliers, not a national average that doesn't reflect what you paid last Tuesday. --- ## How the App Works for Roofers 1. **Walk the job.** Use the AR measurement tool on supported devices for live linear and area reads. On older phones, upload photos and the app returns camera-based estimates flagged clearly as estimates, not measurements. 2. **Generate scope.** AI drafts a scope of work from your walkthrough inputs — tear-off layers, decking condition, drip edge, valley type, ridge vent, flashing details. You review and edit. This takes less than 3 minutes on a typical residential re-roof. 3. **Price it.** Your saved labor rates and material costs populate automatically. Adjust quantities, apply your margin, add the permit line. 4. **Send it.** The client receives a professional PDF bid. On Pro+ tiers, Stripe Connect invoice collection is built in with a 0% platform fee. --- ## Pricing That Fits a Small Roofing Crew - **Free tier** — no credit card, no time limit. Good for one seat testing the workflow. - **Pro — $39/seat/mo.** Full estimating, saved cost workspace, unlimited bids. - **Elite — $79/seat/mo.** Adds Stripe Connect payments, invoice exports, and priority support. - **Crew — $399/mo flat.** Covers your whole crew regardless of seat count. There is no per-bid fee. There is no percentage taken from your contract value on Pro+. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Tuned for Roofing Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. The roofing workflow includes pitch factor tables, shingle quantity calculators, underlayment and ice-and-water shield line items, and labor rate fields that separate tear-off from installation. You are not adapting a generic construction template — you are working in a tool that knows a ridge cap is different from a field shingle. --- ## Start Without Committing Anything The free tier requires no credit card. You can build your first Birmingham roofing estimate today, send it to a real client, and decide after whether the time savings justify upgrading. Most roofers figure that out on the first hail-season call surge.