Cleveland, OH
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Cleveland Move Fast — Your Bid Has to Move Faster Cleveland's weather does the selling for you. Ice dams on West Side two-flats, wind-driven rain off Lake Erie stripping flashing from Tremont bungalows, hail events that send half of Parma scrambling for a new roof in the same week. When storm season hits, you are competing against every other roofer in Cuyahoga County, and the first credible bid often wins the job. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job-site walkthrough to a sendable, priced bid in a median of 8 minutes. That is not a marketing number — it is the median time measured across real bids in the platform. --- ## What Makes Cleveland Roofing Different **Snow loads and ice-and-water shield** are not optional here. Ohio Building Code requires ice-and-water shield at eaves for structures in the snow belt, and northeast Ohio sits squarely in that zone. Your estimate needs to account for a minimum 24-inch (or to the warm-wall line, whichever is greater) ice-and-water shield course on every qualifying job. Miss it in your scope and you either eat the cost or fight the customer. Estimate.Pro's roofing scope template prompts for ice dam protection on every job so it is never left out of your bid. **Steep-slope vs. low-slope work.** Commercial flat roofs in the Detroit-Superior corridor and Ohio City require EPDM, TPO, or modified bitumen takeoffs that look nothing like a shingle job in Westlake. The platform handles both. You build your material cost workspace once — your shingle, underlayment, and ice-shield pricing for residential; your TPO membrane and cover board pricing for commercial — and every new bid pulls from those saved numbers. **Wind speed requirements.** ASCE 7 wind maps place Cleveland in a zone that demands minimum 130 mph rated shingles on most new installs and re-roofs permitted after the current Ohio Residential Code adoption. Specify the product rating in your scope so customers and inspectors see you know the code, not just the pitch. --- ## AR Measurement on the Roof, Not at Your Desk Estimate.Pro runs ONNX-assisted live AR measurement on supported devices. Walk the perimeter, capture planes, and get square footage without climbing back down to do math on a clipboard. On older phones or when you are working from photos, measurements are clearly marked as estimates so you know exactly what to verify before the bid is final. For steep roofs where you are working from aerial photos, the same estimate flag applies — transparent about accuracy, never quietly wrong. --- ## Permit Fees and Local Costs Built Into Your Numbers Cleveland's Division of Construction Permitting charges a sliding fee based on project valuation. A typical 1,500 sq ft shingle re-roof permitted at $8,000–$12,000 in declared value runs roughly $125–$175 in permit fees under the current fee schedule. That number belongs in your estimate, not discovered after the fact. Cuyahoga County labor for journeyman roofers runs $28–$38 per hour for field crews depending on experience and whether you are signatory with Local 44 of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers & Allied Workers. Your loaded labor cost — burden, insurance, truck time — lands higher. Set your labor rates in your saved cost workspace and every bid reflects your actual numbers, not national averages. --- ## What Estimate.Pro Builds Into Every Roofing Scope - Square footage takeoff with waste factor by roof complexity - Ice-and-water shield linear footage and area - Underlayment (synthetic or felt) coverage - Drip edge, ridge cap, and starter strip quantities - Flashing: step, counter, chimney, and valley - Ventilation: ridge vent linear footage, soffit vent area, power vent count - Tear-off and disposal — by layer count - Permit fee line item - Manufacturer warranty labor uplift if applicable You can add or remove line items. The scope is a starting point, not a locked template. --- ## Pricing That Makes Sense for a Roofing Crew Free tier is free forever, no credit card. You get the core estimating workflow and can send bids today. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports. Crew is $399 per month flat — one price for the whole company, useful once you have multiple estimators running jobs simultaneously during storm season. Stripe Connect platform fee is 0% on Pro and above. The Free tier runs 3%. No other platform fees. --- ## Start Your First Cleveland Roofing Estimate Create a free account, load the roofing trade template, and run a real bid on your next job. If it does not beat your current process, you have lost 8 minutes. If it does, you have a faster close rate before the next hail season hits Cuyahoga County.