Written by roofers, on real jobs.
RoofMap came out of a working roofing company in Northland, New Zealand. It exists because quoting a re-roof took an afternoon of tape measures and spreadsheets, and because the material order was never quite right.
The problem it was built for
Quoting a re-roof properly means measuring a roof you cannot safely walk, working every sloped length back through the pitch, counting flashings by type and by piece, and turning all of that into a number a homeowner will say yes to. Done by hand it takes most of a day. Done quickly it comes out wrong, and the wrong part is usually the flashings.
The order was the worse half. Back-trays left off. A chimney's flashing set found on the roof rather than on the docket. A sheet run measured to the wrong gutter and cut two metres long. None of it catastrophic on its own, all of it a truck movement and half a day.
Why a roofing company wrote software
Because the products that existed were either measuring services that sell you a report per roof and stop there, or job-management systems that handle everything except the roof itself. Neither knew what a change-of-pitch flashing was, or that a shared edge between two roofs should be counted once.
Every feature in RoofMap earned its place on a real job first. The cut lists match how a roof is actually laid because they were built by the people laying it. The app works with one hand on a windy roof because that is where it gets used.
What that means for you
- Your own steel grades, profiles and gutters, set up once — COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME®, CUSTOM ORB®, TRIMDEK® or whatever you sell
- Your supplier's prices and your labour rates, with GST on your customer quotes at the rate you set
- Sheet runs, flashings and the cut list worked out at the true pitch, off one drawing
- Rates that ship as New Zealand trade rates, so the sample job reads as a believable number — load your own before your first quote
COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME®, LYSAGHT®, CUSTOM ORB®, TRIMDEK®, KLIP-LOK® and SPANDEK® are registered trade marks of BlueScope Steel Limited.
The roofer behind it
Aron Flood owns and runs a metal roofing company in Northland, New Zealand: five two-man crews, mostly re-roofs and new builds, working from the Far North down to Whangārei.
He built RoofMap inside that business, over about a year, because quoting was eating his evenings. A re-roof meant an hour to drive out, measure and drive back, then half an hour to write it up — and seven of every ten of those quotes were not won. The tools he could buy either sold a measuring report per roof and stopped there, or ran the whole business except the roof itself.
RoofMap is the tool he wanted: trace the roof off the aerial, and the job pack, the merchant order and the customer's quote all come off that one drawing. His own crews run every job through it. Aron still gets on the roof; the software gets written between jobs, and when a roofer sends feedback it is usually fixed the same day.
RoofMap Limited is its own company, separate from the roofing business Aron runs.
The trade-off worth naming
A roofing company selling software to other roofers is unusual, and it is fair to be suspicious of it. Nothing you draw, price or quote is visible to us — the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is held and who can reach it. The reason we sell it rather than keep it is that a tool used by fifty roofing businesses gets better far faster than one used by ours.
The fair ones to ask.
Who actually built RoofMap?
RoofMap Limited — a company started by a working roofer in Northland, New Zealand. It was built for his own crews' quoting first and used on live jobs for a long time before anyone else saw it.
Is the founder's roofing company a competitor if I subscribe?
No. The founder's roofing company works in Northland, New Zealand — not in Australia. Nothing you draw, price or quote is visible to us — see the Privacy Policy for what is held and who can reach it.
A roofing company selling software to roofers is unusual, and it is fair to ask. The honest answer is that the software is worth more shared than kept.
Does RoofMap work for Australian roofers?
Yes. The measuring, the pitch arithmetic, the cut lists and the customer quote work the same on any metal roof. What is local is the product list and the prices: set up your own steel grades, profiles, gutters and supplier rates once, and every quote after that uses them. Prices are in Australian dollars.
Try it on one of your own roofs.
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