Three illustrated guides for running a roofing business: licenses, insurance, contracts, claim rules, money, taxes and crews; customers, inspections, the sale, insurance claims, job day and fall protection; and the parts, pitch, squares, materials, flashing and damage of the roof itself. One idea a page, each one drawn.
Real pages from all three guides. One idea a page, drawn.
The Roofing Business, Selling and Running Roofs, and Roofs, Measured and Explained. 126 pages, one idea each.
The idea, the picture, the costly mistake and one line to remember. Read it in the truck between roofs.
Phone-sized PDFs to check at the kitchen table or on the ladder line, yours to keep. Nothing to cancel.
You know how to roof. Nobody taught you the business.
Most of the money a new roofing business loses goes quietly: a price built from shingles and labor alone, rotted decking nobody priced, a claim job run on handshakes. Every one of them has a page, and every page names the mistake.
Where roofing businesses lose money:
A drawing is easier to take in between roofs than a paragraph. That's why every page in the kit has one, and one line to keep.
Every page has the same parts, so you always know where to look. Here is Book 1, page 16, Price rotted decking before you find it, with its lines quoted from the guide.
Nobody sees the deck until tear-off, so write a price per sheet for rotted decking into the contract before you start.
You find six soft sheets at 9 a.m. You text the homeowner photos, point to the line in the contract, and keep working. No phone tag, no stopped crew.
No decking price in the contract. Now you stop the crew to negotiate, or eat the cost.
Price the rot before you find it.
Quoted word for word from Book 1, page 16. The $95 a sheet on the page is the kit's example price, labelled as one. Every page carries these parts plus the drawing, and where a rule changes from state to state, a note that says so.
Licenses, insurance, contracts, claim rules, money, taxes and crews, one idea a page. Six parts: Starting out, Insurance, Contracts, Money, Taxes and People. Start with what one square really costs.
From the first call to the final walk, in the same layout.
The roof itself: its parts, its measurements, its materials and what goes wrong with it.
Total value: $95
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Digital guides (PDF), in English. We email your library link right after purchase, and you can download the files again anytime. Plus sales tax where applicable.
Roofing Made Simple is an independent guide for people running a roofing business. It explains rules in plain words and is not legal, tax, insurance or accounting advice. It is not affiliated with any licensing board, insurer or government agency.
You can roof; the business side is new. Book 1 lays out the setup, your state's license pattern, permits, insurance and comp, and the contract, then what one square really costs.
The schedule is full and the account is still thin. Overhead per square, adders, markup and margin, break-even, job costing and the slow season each get a page, worked with example numbers you can swap your own into.
Before your first claim job, see how a claim runs, what RCV and ACV mean, how to meet an adjuster, why the deductible stays the homeowner's, and how to tell hail and wind from plain age, one page at a time.
No gimmicks. Public federal rules, model codes, state statutes and standard roofing practice, drawn clearly, with the source named on the page where it matters.
The fall protection pages follow OSHA's construction rules; the tax and 1099 pages follow IRS publications; the contract and claim pages teach the patterns in state statutes, with any one state's rule labelled as an example; the roof pages follow the model codes and manufacturers' published instructions. Every page was checked against its named sources before release.
Roofing licenses, permits, claim contract rules, deductible rules and sales tax on roofing change from state to state and city to city. Those pages teach the shared pattern, label any local rule as an example, and point you to where yours lives. No one state's rule is passed off as the rule everywhere.
The money pages work the same example rates all the way through: a walkable reroof square that costs $360 and is priced at $450, and $95 a sheet for rotted decking. You can see where each number comes from and swap in your own. The examples are examples, not prices for your market.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by OSHA, the U.S. Department of Labor, the IRS, any state licensing board, any insurance company, any roofing manufacturer or the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA). We answer to the owner.
Use the kit for 7 days. If it isn't for you, email us and you get 100% of your money back. No fine print, no hassle.
Right after purchase we email you a link to your library, where you download all three guides as PDFs. You can come back and download them again anytime.
One-time payment of $27. No subscription, no recurring charges, and nothing to cancel. All three guides are yours to keep.
People running a residential roofing business in their first few years, and crew leads about to go out on their own. Commercial low-slope work gets a few pages, but the kit is built around reroofs and repairs on homes.
Every state. The books teach what works the same way everywhere: pricing, contracts, insurance, measuring and fall protection. Where a rule changes by state or city, like a roofing license, a permit or the rules for insurance-claim contracts, the page says so and shows you where to look up yours.
No. Roofing Made Simple is an independent guide for people running a roofing business. It explains rules in plain words and is not legal, tax, insurance or accounting advice. It is not affiliated with any licensing board, insurer or government agency. Your lawyer, accountant, insurance agent and your state's licensing board apply the rules to your business.
No. The kit is complete on its own.
At checkout there is one optional add-on, The Roof Pricing and Margin Workbook: the estimate method and your own labor and overhead per square, five example roofs priced step by step (a gable, a hip, a leak repair, a claim job and a metal reroof), and blank sheets to copy. It's $9, unticked, and you can skip it.
Both. The pages are portrait and phone-sized, so you can check one at the kitchen table, and the PDFs print if you want a page in the truck.
We don't promise that, and we'd be wary of anyone who does. The guides show you how each piece works and the mistake that costs money, with the numbers worked on the kit's example rates. Which roofs you take and what you charge is still your call.
Email us within 7 days of purchase and we'll refund 100% of your money. Details on the refund policy page.
Spotted an error, or a rule that works differently in your state or city? Email info@roofermadesimple.com. A real person reads every message, and fixes go into the next version.
Every season with your own crew teaches you something about the business side, and the expensive lessons come with a bill. You don't need another midnight group thread or a price someone swears by. You need the page for this decision, with the idea drawn and the mistake named.