Orlando, FL
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Orlando Move Fast — Your Bidding Has To Match Orlando's roofing market doesn't slow down. Hurricane season drives emergency re-roofs from June through November. New residential construction in Horizon West, Lake Nona, and the I-4 corridor keeps crews booked. And when a storm passes through Orange County, you're competing against every other roofer in Central Florida for the same jobs. Slowing down to build a quote in a spreadsheet is how you lose work. Estimate.Pro takes you from job-site walkthrough to a sendable bid in a median of 8 minutes. That's not a marketing claim — it's the measured median across real jobs on the platform. --- ## What Makes Roofing Estimating Different in Orlando **Florida Building Code wind-load requirements are non-negotiable.** Orange County falls under the Florida Building Code 2023, which requires roof systems to meet specific wind-speed resistance ratings. For most of the Orlando metro, the design wind speed is 130 mph (per ASCE 7-22 maps). That means your material selections — shingle class, underlayment, fastener patterns, and deck attachment — all have to be specified to pass inspection. A generic estimate template won't flag that. Estimate.Pro scopes include fields tied to FBC wind-uplift compliance so nothing gets left out of the bid. **Re-roof vs. recover decisions affect your takeoff.** Florida allows a second layer of shingles over an existing layer in certain conditions, but Orange County building officials are strict about when that's permitted. A full tear-off changes your dumpster cost, labor hours, and disposal line items substantially. Your estimate has to separate those scenarios clearly, or you eat the difference. **Tile roofing is common here — and underestimated everywhere else.** Central Florida's housing stock includes a high proportion of concrete and clay tile roofs, especially in communities built in the 1990s and 2000s. Tile work is slower to install, heavier on the structure, and requires a different underlayment spec than asphalt. If you're pricing tile jobs with an asphalt template, your margins are wrong. Estimate.Pro's roofing workflows handle tile, metal, flat/TPO, and asphalt as distinct job types with separate material cost workspaces. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Orlando Roofers **AR Measurement on the Job Site** On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture roof dimensions during your walkthrough. Camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates so you know what's verified and what needs a second look. Either way, you're not going back to the truck to run numbers before you can talk price with the homeowner. **Scope of Work in Plain Language** The AI scope-of-work generator produces a written scope from your walkthrough inputs. That scope becomes the foundation of the estimate — line items, not guesses. When a homeowner asks what they're paying for, you hand them a document, not a number on a napkin. **Your Own Material Costs, Saved** Orlando supply prices at places like ABC Supply, Beacon, and 84 Lumber shift with demand — especially post-storm. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you keep your actual supplier pricing current so your estimates reflect what you're actually paying, not national averages. **Payments Without the Cut** Estimate.Pro connects to Stripe Connect for deposits and final invoices. On the Free tier, the platform fee is 3%. On Pro+ (Pro at $39/seat/month or Elite at $79/seat/month), the platform fee drops to $0. For crews, the flat $399/month Crew plan covers the whole team. --- ## Orange County Permitting: What You Need to Know Orange County Building Division requires a permit for most roofing work — re-roofs included. Permit applications require a Notice of Commencement for jobs over $2,500. You'll need to specify the roofing system, product approval numbers (per Florida's approved product list), and contractor license number on every submission. Estimate.Pro's scope output is formatted to make pulling permit documentation straightforward — product lines, quantities, and specs are already separated. --- ## Start Free Estimate.Pro has a free forever tier. No credit card required. You can build and send your first bid before you decide whether a paid plan makes sense. If you're running a crew across multiple Orlando neighborhoods — Lake Mary to Kissimmee, Apopka to St. Cloud — the Crew plan at $399/month flat covers every seat without per-user math. The work is already there. The question is how fast you can turn a walkthrough into a signed contract.