How Contractors Are Sending 50+ Estimates a Day Without Leaving the Office
Old-School Measuring Is Slowing You Down
If you’ve been in roofing long enough, you already know — time isn’t just money. It’s missed leads, lost jobs, and a crew sitting around waiting while someone’s still up on a roof with a tape measure.
Back when we did everything by hand — on-site measuring, paper sketches, back-of-the-truck math — I thought we were being thorough. But what we were really doing was bleeding hours. And in this business, slow quotes mean no quotes.
This article walks through how three very different companies — from the mountains of Colorado, the coast of Florida, and the suburbs of Chicago — completely changed the way they handle roof estimates using lpbRoofing, our measurement app. Three different company sizes, three different sets of challenges — but one common result: more quotes, faster turnaround, and no wasted trips.
Case Study #1 — Black Bear Roofing (Colorado)
A small crew in the Rockies, buried in drive time
We’re a two-man crew out in Colorado. Just me and my brother — no office staff, no estimator, no margin for error.
Before lpbRoofing, we were lucky if we could measure 2–3 homes a day. Most properties were hours apart, and up in the foothills, the drive alone could kill a whole morning. And the worst part? Half those jobs didn’t close. We were burning gas and time on estimates that went nowhere.
Things were even worse when the roof had complex slopes or a wraparound gutter system. One missed overhang meant an inaccurate quote — which either cost us profit or made us look sloppy when it came time to install.
Now? Here’s what changed when we started using lpbRoofing:
- Customer sends an address → we enter it into the app → we get a full roof + gutter report in under 10 minutes.
- Measurements include pitch, eaves, rakes, and gutters. Even down to satellite-confirmed square footage.
- We send out 10–15 estimates a day without ever leaving the shop.
We even quote steep-roof cabins tucked up in the mountains — places we used to avoid unless the job looked like a sure thing. No more hauling ladders through snow just to lose the lead.
Real numbers: Since switching, we’ve:
- Closed 40% more contracts last season
- Cut driving time for estimates to nearly zero
- Reduced material waste by quoting off real measurements — not guesses
One customer joked, “You sent me a full roof quote faster than DoorDash gets me lunch.” He wasn’t wrong. From first call to signed proposal? 27 minutes flat.
lpbRoofing became the estimator we never had time to hire. It works while we’re working — not instead of it.
Case Study #2 — Suncoast Gutters & Roofs (Florida)
A mid-sized operation drowning in seasonal volume
We’re based in Tampa, and we do a mix of roofing and gutters — asphalt shingles, tile, full tear-offs, plus a whole lot of custom aluminum gutter installs.
Come May, the storm season kicks off, and the phones don’t stop ringing. Every roof has hail damage. Every homeowner wants a quote “ASAP.” It’s chaos. And before lpbRoofing, we were stuck trying to chase it all with clipboards and ladders.
We had four estimators covering the region — which sounds good on paper, until three of them get stuck in traffic, and the fourth calls out sick. We were constantly behind. And for gutters? We needed a second trip just to measure eaves and downspouts. It wasn’t scalable.
Then we brought in lpbRoofing.
What changed:
- Our office team now handles estimates remotely. Client calls in, gives us an address, we plug it into the app, and get a full roof + gutter layout back in minutes.
- We use the gutter-only measurement tool when we’re doing partial replacements or aluminum upgrades. No need to send a tech unless it’s a full install.
- Our sales reps now close up to 20 jobs per week, all without stepping on a roof.
One of the best features? We can tweak the estimate right in the platform. Need to bump from 5″ to 6″ K-style? Switch materials? Add extra downspouts? Done — and it recalculates instantly.
We even integrated the data into our CRM so we can track response times. Before lpbRoofing, our average quote delay was 2.5 days. Now we’re down to under 6 hours — even with fewer boots on the ground.
And in Florida, where every other company is promising same-day service after a storm, that speed wins jobs.
Case Study #3 — Apex Pro Roofing (Illinois)
A larger company streamlining multi-crew coordination across the suburbs
We’re headquartered just outside Chicago, covering most of Cook and DuPage counties. With six install crews, three repair techs, and a small sales team, our biggest challenge wasn’t getting leads — it was keeping everyone aligned.
We’d spend hours juggling calendars, assigning estimators by ZIP code, and playing phone tag between the office and field. Worst of all? Jobs would bottleneck because a crew couldn’t start without measurements being finalized.
Some weeks we’d have 20 open estimates just waiting on site visits — and it didn’t matter how many leads we had if we couldn’t process them fast enough.
That’s when we rolled out lpbRoofing — first just for our estimators, but within a month, we trained the entire sales admin team to use it too.
Here’s what happened:
- Our estimator team cut travel time by 70%. They now focus only on complex roofs or premium bids — the software handles the rest.
- We built standardized templates for GAF and CertainTeed systems, complete with material breakdowns by square and pitch. Estimating became plug-and-play.
- For larger properties, we overlay multiple satellite views to double-check rooflines. We even flag areas where tree cover might affect gutter placement or debris flow.
We used to have one dedicated team member just stitching together roof diagrams from Google Earth and field notes. Now, that entire job is done in 10 minutes — with more accuracy and zero liability.
Our crews love it too. They get final measurements 24 hours before arrival, along with detailed gutter and flashing plans, so there’s no wasted time loading the wrong gear.
In the last quarter alone, we completed 41 more jobs than the same period last year — without hiring a single additional estimator.
Final Thoughts: Scaling Smarter, Not Harder
Whether you’re a solo roofer trying to squeeze every hour out of the week, or a 30-person team juggling storm jobs across three counties — the bottleneck is the same: measurements.
lpbRoofing isn’t just about saving time. It’s about unlocking your actual capacity. The kind that turns quotes around in hours, reduces crew idle time, and lets your office team do more with less.
And once you stop climbing every roof just to make a sale?
That’s when your roofing business finally runs like a business.