Boston, MA
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Boston Move Fast — Your Bid Has to Keep Up Boston's roofing season is compressed. Ice dam damage drives a surge of calls every March and April. Hail and nor'easter claims stack up in the fall. When a homeowner in Dorchester or a property manager in Back Bay is comparing three bids, the roofer who sends a clean, detailed estimate first usually gets the work. Estimate.Pro gets you from jobsite walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That is the median time across our user base. Not a best-case demo number. --- ### What Makes Boston Roofing Different **Steep-pitch triple-deckers.** The three-family wood-frame buildings across Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and East Boston are almost universally steep-pitched with complex hip and valley geometry. Measuring a 12/12 pitch from the ground with a tape is a liability. Estimate.Pro's ONNX-assisted AR measurement runs on supported devices and gives you a live read on pitch, run, and surface area. On older devices or photo uploads, measurements are clearly flagged as estimates — you always know what you're working with. **Massachusetts State Building Code (9th Edition, based on IBC 2015).** Boston enforces this code strictly, and the Inspectional Services Department (ISD) requires permits for full tear-offs and most recovers. Your estimate should reflect permit costs from day one, not as a surprise line item when the permit pulls come back. **Ice and water shield requirements.** Massachusetts requires a minimum 24-inch ice and water shield from the eave in climate zones covered by the state code. Boston sits in a zone where that requirement bites on nearly every residential job. Your material takeoff needs to account for it correctly. **EPDM and TPO flat roofs on commercial stock.** Boston has significant commercial and mixed-use flat-roof inventory — triple-deckers with flat front sections, rowhouses in the South End, and warehouse conversions in the Seaport. Estimating membrane roofing requires different line items than asphalt shingle. Estimate.Pro handles both in the same workflow. --- ### Build Your Estimate in the App When you open a Boston roofing job in Estimate.Pro, you are working with: - **AR measurement** for pitch and square footage on steep residential slopes - **Scope-of-work AI** that drafts line items from your walkthrough notes — tear-off, felt or synthetic underlayment, ice and water shield, drip edge, flashing, ridge cap, ventilation - **Saved material cost workspace** where you store your actual supplier pricing from Bradco, ABC Supply, or your local yard — not generic national averages that don't reflect what you're paying on a Tuesday morning in Somerville - **Labor rate inputs** you set and update yourself, priced to the Boston market The output is a professional PDF or shareable link you can send from the roof. --- ### Pricing That Matches the Size of Your Operation Estimate.Pro runs on a free forever tier — no credit card, no trial clock. When your volume grows: - **Pro** — $39 per seat per month - **Elite** — $79 per seat per month, adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports - **Crew** — $399 per month flat for your whole crew The Pro+ tiers carry a 0% platform fee on payments collected through Stripe Connect. The free tier is 3%. If you are collecting deposits on a $25,000 reroof, that difference matters. --- ### Permit and Code Context Boston Roofers Deal With Every Job Boston ISD requires a building permit for any roofing work that involves structural repair or full replacement. Permit fees are calculated on the declared value of the work. Filing the permit yourself means knowing your scope and your numbers before you walk into City Hall or submit online. An estimate built in Estimate.Pro gives you that documentation already formatted. For historic districts — Beacon Hill, the South End, Bay Village — the Boston Landmarks Commission may require additional review before roofing materials are changed. If your client is in a protected district, note it in your scope and add lead time to the project timeline. --- ### Start Without a Credit Card Create your free account, run your first Boston roofing estimate, and send it. If the 8-minute target does not hold up on your first real job, the free tier costs you nothing to find that out.