Miami, FL
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Miami Move Fast — Your Bids Have To Match Miami-Dade County runs one of the strictest building departments in the country. After Hurricane Andrew, the county adopted its own High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) requirements that go beyond the Florida Building Code. Every roofing permit submittal has to reference the right product approval numbers, underlayment specs, and fastening patterns. If your bid doesn't reflect those requirements, you're either leaving money on the table or setting yourself up for a change order fight. Estimate.Pro is built for the 25 trades where scoped estimates matter. Roofing is one of them. Here's what that means in Miami. --- ## What Makes Roofing Estimating Different Here **Flat roofs dominate the commercial corridor.** From Brickell to Hialeah, modified bitumen and TPO systems are standard on commercial and multi-family. Your estimate has to separate tear-off, insulation board, membrane, and termination bar into line items — not a lump sum that gets picked apart during the bid review. **Concrete tile is the residential default.** Miami-Dade approves specific tile products for HVHZ use. Your material costs need to reflect current tile pricing and the correct mortar-set or mechanically-fastened spec. Estimate.Pro lets you save a material cost workspace so your tile prices stay current without rebuilding the sheet every bid. **Wind mitigation documentation affects your customer's insurance premium.** Homeowners in Miami-Dade ask about wind mitigation reports before they sign anything. When your bid references the correct Florida Building Code 2023 (8th Edition) requirements — secondary water barriers, roof deck attachment, roof covering — it signals that you know what you're doing. That closes jobs. **Permit fees add up.** Miami-Dade Building Department bases roofing permit fees on the value of the job. A $40,000 re-roof carries a permit fee that can exceed $600 before plan review surcharges. That line item belongs in your estimate, not your overhead. --- ## The 8-Minute Bid Workflow 1. **Walk the roof.** Use Estimate.Pro's AR measurement tool on supported devices to capture square footage live. On other devices, camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates — you always know which numbers are field-verified. 2. **Generate the scope.** The AI scope-of-work engine turns your walkthrough notes into a structured line-item list: tear-off, decking inspection, underlayment (peel-and-stick per HVHZ), tile or shingle, flashing, ridge, and cleanup. 3. **Price it.** Your saved material cost workspace pulls in current prices. Labor rates for Miami-Dade roofers are applied at your set rate. The estimate is ready to send in a median of 8 minutes from the time you finish the walkthrough. No SaaS upsells. No per-bid fees. The Free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. Pro runs $39 per seat per month. Elite at $79 per seat adds Stripe Connect invoice exports with 0% platform fee — relevant when you're collecting deposits on a $30,000 tile job. --- ## HVHZ Code References Built Into Your Workflow Estimate.Pro scopes reference the details Miami-Dade inspectors actually check: - **Florida Building Code 2023, Section 1504** — HVHZ wind resistance requirements for roof coverings - **Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA)** — product approval numbers your scope can call out - **FBC Section 1507.3** — concrete and clay tile installation requirements including mortar and mechanical fastening - **TAS 100, TAS 110, TAS 125** — Miami-Dade test protocols referenced in product approvals When your bid document speaks that language, the homeowner or GC reads it as a professional document, not a napkin quote. --- ## Built for the Miami Roofing Market Miami roofing season doesn't have an off-season the way northern markets do. Hurricane season runs June through November and drives both emergency repair volume and scheduled re-roof demand from homeowners who just got their insurance renewal. The shoulder months — February through May — are when GCs finalize bids for the summer construction push. You need to be able to turn bids fast in February and turn them accurately in September when you're managing three active jobs and a storm-damage call queue. Estimate.Pro doesn't replace your expertise. It handles the document so you can stay on the roof. --- ## Start Free No credit card. No trial period. The Free tier runs indefinitely. When your volume justifies Pro or Elite, the upgrade is one click. Crew pricing at $399 per month flat covers unlimited seats — built for roofing companies running multiple crews across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties.