Trace the plan, and the program builds the roof, counts every square and every foot of flashing, lays your roofing panel by panel, and prices the job with your costs. It prints the proposal for the customer and the install ticket for the crew.
Twelve kinds of roof line, each counted in feet, each one a line on the price and the crew ticket.
You draw the roof once. The takeoff, the roofing layout, the price, the proposal and the crew's cut list all come from that one drawing, so they always agree.
Load a blueprint scan or an aerial photo, set the scale from any known line, and trace over it. Or draw from measurements.
Build Roof puts in the hips, valleys and ridges. Mark rakes, walls, steps and pitch breaks where the roof has them.
Pick the product. It is laid course by course or panel by panel on every facet, so waste is real, not a guessed percentage.
Place dormers, pipe boots, vents, skylights and chimneys where they sit.
The pricer reads the drawing and applies your material costs, labor, markups, fees, tax and commission.
A proposal PDF for the customer, an install ticket for the crew, and a runout list for the panel machine.
This is a roofer's drawing tool, not a general CAD program. It works in squares and in feet and inches, and it follows the rules a roof has to follow.
Draw the outline and mark the edges. Build Roof solves the rest:
For the roofs no builder can guess, trace each slope as its own facet. The program keeps the rules for you:
Shingles, stone coated, metal panels, tile, shake, slate, TPO/PVC, EPDM and peel-and-stick. You add the products you actually sell, at their real sizes, and the program lays them on the roof.
Each product is laid on each facet course by course or panel by panel, so squares to buy come from the actual cuts. A job can mix types: shingles on the house and metal on the porch each get their own takeoff and their own pricing sheet.
The program ships with starter prices only to get you close. Every material, labor rate, markup, fee and fastener is set by the company, and the setup travels with the program.
| What you set | How it works |
|---|---|
| Roofing products | Every product has its own material price per square and its own install labor per square. Nail-fin metal installs cheaper than mechanical seam, and shingles cheaper still. |
| Line items per roofing type | Starter, cap, drip edge, flashings, closures, sealant, anything you buy. Each line follows a number from the drawing (squares, ridge feet, valley feet, pieces, each pipe boot), covers what one unit covers (a 10′ piece, a 33′ bundle), and is marked material, labor or pass-through. |
| Fasteners and parts by the bag | Screws, clips, nails, rivets and plates, in the bag or box size you buy. Say what fills the bag in plain words: one every 12″ of panel run, four per piece of drip edge, two screws per clip. All the uses pool into one pile, then round up once to whole bags. |
| Underlayment | Your products with squares per roll, lap waste and labor. Each roofing type on a job picks its own field underlayment and ice & water for the valleys and hips. |
| Accessories and venting | Pipe boots by size, roto vents, off-ridge vents, dryer vents, goosenecks, skylights and chimneys, each with material and install price. Add your own, like a solar fan, ridge vent or satellite mount, and place it on the roof like the rest. |
| Company costs | Sales tax, warranty cost per square foot per year, dump, permit, delivery, tear-off labor, fuel price, truck MPG, drive labor and trips. Add any line the company charges on every job. |
| Steep roofs | Tear-off and install extras by pitch, figured on each facet's own pitch, so a mixed roof pays only for its steep squares. |
| Markups and commission | Material and labor markups per roofing type (metal marked up less than shingles, if that is how you sell), job commission and warranty years. |
| Mileage | Type the miles and drive time, or look them up from the shop address. |
The math is laid out, not hidden. The pricing page lists every line by bucket and walks the whole chain down to the price:
price = material × markup + labor × markup + warranty + commission + tax + pass-throughs
Sales tax is figured on material cost, never on the marked-up price. Commission comes after markups and warranty, before tax. Dump, permit, delivery and fuel pass straight through with no markup, commission or tax.
A proposal PDF with a 3D picture of their roof on top, then your logo and company header, the roofing, the warranty, the price and signature lines. No cost detail. An email button fills in the summary for you.
An install ticket with every material and quantity, bags of fasteners with piece counts, flashing runs, accessories and labor on one sheet. For metal, the panel lengths by facet and the runout file for the machine.
A sales page that shows the price and the commission without showing costs. Hand a salesman a ready-to-price copy of the program with your products, prices and logo already inside.
A saved job keeps the prices it was bid with, so it reprices the same next year, or you can reprice it with today's costs in one click. Export the whole company setup to a file and load it on another computer.
The whole program is one file that opens in a web browser. No account and no server: jobs and prices stay on your own computer. The internet is only needed to look up mileage.
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