Breche for Roofers
A roofing estimate is thirty familiar line items assembled fast — or it's an hour of retyping prices from last month's spreadsheet. Breche stores your materials and labor rates per square in a price library, assembles them into sectioned estimates, and shows your margin live as you build, so the number you send is one you can stand behind.
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The problems this solves
The pain
Every estimate starts from a blank spreadsheet and someone's memory of current shingle pricing.
What Breche does
Load your price library once — architectural shingles per square, underlayment, ice-and-water, drip edge, labor per square by pitch tier — and every estimate pulls from the same current numbers. When your supplier raises prices, you update the library item once and the next estimate is right automatically.
The pain
One long undifferentiated list of line items makes the bid hard to read and harder to defend.
What Breche does
Structure estimates in sections that mirror the job: tear-off and disposal, decking repair allowance, installation, flashing and penetrations, gutters. The homeowner sees a professional breakdown they can follow; you see per-section subtotals that make it obvious where a competitor's cheaper bid is cutting scope.
The pain
You find out a job was quoted below your floor after the crew is already on the roof.
What Breche does
Margin math runs live while you build. Every line carries cost and price, and the estimate shows the blended margin as you go — so a discount conversation on the kitchen table happens with the real floor in view, not discovered in job costing three weeks later.
The pain
Waste gets guessed, and hips and valleys eat the difference.
What Breche does
Add waste factors as explicit line items instead of silently inflating quantities. A cut-up hip roof carries a visible 15% waste line; a simple gable carries 10%. The customer sees an honest number, and your material order matches what the estimate actually accounted for.
The pain
The homeowner asks 'what would metal cost?' and that means building a second bid from scratch.
What Breche does
Send one proposal with shingle and standing-seam options presented side by side, each with its own sections and price. The homeowner compares, picks, and e-signs the option they want — you close the upsell conversation inside a single document instead of managing two competing quotes.
The pain
The estimate, the invoice, and the final job cost never quite agree.
What Breche does
The approved estimate flows forward: invoices bill against it, change orders extend it, and job costing compares its numbers to actual material receipts and labor hours. When the job closes, estimated-versus-actual per section tells you whether your library rates need adjusting — and next month's estimates get sharper.
How it works in Breche
Enter your real costs and sell prices once: materials per square or per unit, labor rates by pitch and complexity, dump fees, permits. This is the estimating brain every future bid draws from.
Pull library items into tear-off, install, and gutter sections, set quantities from your measurements, and add waste factor lines. A typical reroof estimate comes together in minutes, with margin visible the whole time.
Package the estimate into a proposal — with good-better-best or shingle-versus-metal options if the job calls for them — and the homeowner reviews and e-signs from any device.
The signed estimate becomes the invoicing baseline and the job-costing budget. Actual costs land against it as the job runs, closing the loop between what you quoted and what you earned.
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