Climbing up on a house to calculate roof square footage can be time consuming. Measuring every area of a roof and then inputting the information into an estimate can set roofing contractors back hours each day, limiting your ability to reach more homeowners and sell more jobs.
This roofing measurement guide will walk you through easy ways to take manual measurements as well as how you can maximize your time by using aerial measurement reports.
To manually measure a roof without the help of aerial measurement reports, you must visit a job site and climb onto the roof to take precise roofing measurements by hand.
Here are the 6 steps to get a manual roofing measurement.
With those roofing measurement figures, you can then estimate the roofing supplies needed for a job.
Ordering an aerial measurement report is a much faster and convenient way to get the measurements of a roof. Instead of climbing on a ladder to measure a roof for shingles by hand and inputting measurements into an estimate for the homeowner, the entire process can be managed digitally, saving you time, allowing you to deliver roof estimates faster, and eliminating measurement errors.
After a big storm, you want to be as prepared as possible for an influx of work. Customers are eager to have their homes repaired. The faster you can provide an estimate for roof repair, the faster work can get started. But even a simple roof can take at least 30 minutes to measure. Ordering a roofing measurement report through AccuLynx, on the other hand, takes only a few seconds, which means your field sales teams can provide estimates to more homes.
Measuring a roof for shingles is an error-prone process that often results in miscalculations. Aerial measurement reports eliminate manual errors so you can be assured you have accurate numbers from the very start. Reduce material shortages and overages once and for all, resulting in money savings for your roofing business.
For a tool that can be so valuable to your company, aerial roof measurements are actually quite simple. Planes or drones capture images of residential and commercial properties from the sky. From these images, a report with accurate measurements of a roof’s area, length, and pitch is generated. Details typically include measurement of a roof’s ridges, hips, valleys, rakes, eaves, flashing, and step flashing.
EagleView delivers measurements derived from high-resolution aerial imagery for residential and commercial structures. EagleView roof measurement products include georeferenced, high-resolution aerial imagery captured at low altitudes from a top-down perspective as well as views from the north, south, east, and west.
GAF QuickMeasure reports provide accurate roof measurements and the latest high-resolution imagery in under 1 hour for single-family homes and under 24 hours for multi-family and commercial properties.
AccuLynx integrates with aerial measurement providers – EagleView and GAF QuickMeasure – to simplify the roof measurement process for contractors.
With our seamless integrations, you’ll get fast and accurate measurements right to your AccuLynx job file, so you can prepare competitive estimates, increase sales closing rates, and improve production planning.
AccuLynx makes ordering aerial roofing measurement reports a fast and straightforward process.
Before Kaiser Roofing started using EagleView and AccuLynx, Chief Operations Officer Dan Billings sometimes spent two or three hours preparing a single estimate. He knew that in order to scale the company and increase profits, Kaiser Roofing needed a better solution for measuring roofs, estimating jobs, and managing every aspect of the business.
Switching to AccuLynx and ordering EagleView reports through our integration meant that the Kaiser Roofing team no longer had to climb on roofs to get their measurements. Instead, they could see roofing reports in as little as 15 minutes and turn those reports into estimates with just a few clicks. Because of this increased efficiency, the sales team now has more time to focus on educating the customer and closing the deal. In addition, using AccuLynx helped Kaiser Roofing improve the accuracy of their estimates and know exactly what materials to order. The result? Substantial growth—including a 120% revenue increase in just one year!
“AccuLynx and EagleView have been game-changers for our productivity and efficiency. We can easily know what our material and labor costs are going to be and track them in one place.”
“AccuLynx and EagleView have been game-changers for our productivity and efficiency. We can easily know what our material and labor costs are going to be and track them in one place.”
Thousands of roofing contractors trust AccuLynx to help them manage their measurements and estimates, along with every other aspect of their businesses. As the leading all-in-one software for residential roofing contractors, AccuLynx is packed with powerful features designed to help you grow your profits and increase your productivity.
From initial lead to final invoice, our roofing software gives you cutting-edge tools to simplify and streamline your work. Here are some of the many things you can do with AccuLynx.
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