A quote app for roofers — priced before you're off the ladder

How roofing work goes unpaid

• The damage you can only see from up there. You quoted a ridge-cap rebed off photos and a ground walk. On the roof, there's a dozen cracked tiles either side of the valley and the valley iron is rusted through. You're not leaving a roof you know leaks — so you fix it, and unless that becomes a variation the owner approved, you just donated a valley.
• Weather rewrites the scope. A storm front is coming and half the roof is open, so you tarp and secure beyond the quoted section, or come back for an extra day you never priced. Emergency make-safe work done at 5 pm on a Friday is precisely the work that never gets documented.
• The gutter conversation. You're up there anyway, the owner asks about the sagging gutter and the fascia behind it. “While you're on the roof” add-ons are the cheapest sales you'll ever make — and the easiest money to lose if the yes stays verbal.

Roofing has a brutal extra constraint: the evidence is somewhere the customer will never look. If it isn't written down and shown to them, it may as well not have happened.

Found on the roof, in writing before you're down

Attach the photos to the job note and the owner gets what they can't get themselves: a look at their own roof, next to a written price. That turns “the roofer says it's bad up there” into a variation they can approve from the kitchen — before you rebed a single cap over a valley you know is gone. What belongs in that document is covered in what to include in a building variation.

Quoting roofs: put the unknowns in writing on day one

The same talk-it-out flow drafts the original quote: rebed and repoint by the metre, tile replacement allowances, valley and flashing work, gutter and downpipe runs, access and scaffold if you're charging it. The trick for roofers is quoting the visible scope precisely and saying so — “rebed ridge capping to main roof, approx. 28 lm; broken tiles and valley condition to be assessed from the roof”. A quote written that way makes the on-roof variation the expected next step instead of a fight. Timmy structures that from your rough words; how to write a professional trade quote covers the rest.

What Timmy asks when a roofing note is missing details

When an important detail is missing (a price, a customer, a scope item), Timmy asks rather than making it up. On roofing notes, expect questions like:

• Scope without a price. “Valley's rusted, needs replacing” becomes a scoped line with the amount open, and Timmy asks for your number — it won't price a valley for you.
• Which job, which section? Two storm jobs in the same suburb after a hail front is normal — it confirms which customer before the variation lands anywhere.
• Vague quantities. “A few more tiles than we thought” gets a question about how many, because “a few” on a quote is how disputes start.

Who it fits — and who it doesn't

TradieCue is built for solo tradies and small owner-operated trade businesses (roughly 1–5 people) in australia. For a solo roofer or a small crew doing repairs, restorations and re-roofs for homeowners, it fits the actual rhythm of the work: find it on the roof, say it, send the draft from the driveway. After storms, when you're juggling a week of make-safes and every job has extras, the payment follow-up drafting earns its spot too. What it isn't: job-management or scheduling software, an insurance-claims platform, or a source of safety paperwork. Drafts aren't legal advice, you approve everything before it's shared, and it's iPhone only for now.

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