Written by roofers, on real jobs.
RoofMap came out of a working roofing company in Northland. 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
- Colorsteel®, Zincalume®, ColorCote® and Marley products already costed in
- NZ pitches, NZ profiles, NZ suppliers, GST throughout
- Coastal corrosion zones and the warranty tiers that go with them
- Rates that ship as real New Zealand trade rates, so your first quote is a believable number rather than zero — and are yours to replace
The roofer behind it
Aron Flood owns and runs a long-run steel roofing company in Northland: 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. What it changed on one of our own jobs →
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?
Only if you work in Northland, and there is more roof up here than one company can put on. 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.
Why is it New Zealand only?
Because the parts that matter are local. Coastal corrosion zones, Colorsteel warranty tiers, the profiles the mills actually roll here, the merchants, 15% GST. Software written for another market gets all of that wrong in ways that are hard to see until an order is short.
Try it on one of your own roofs.
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