Measured from satellite imagery
A roofing estimate shouldn't take a week, three contractor visits and a stack of numbers that disagree. McQueen Roofing measures your roof from satellite imagery and prices it line by line in under a minute. No ladder, no waiting, and no pretending we measured something we didn't.
$18 per measured roof. Not charged if we can't measure it.
How it works
That's the whole input. We pull the satellite imagery ourselves — there is nothing to upload, measure or photograph.
You see the satellite image with a crosshair on the roof we're about to measure, and you move it if we've picked the shed. A person looking at their own house catches that instantly; no algorithm does.
Payment sits here, before the measurement, so nothing is spent on a roof you decided not to buy. Our measurement pipeline reads each roof facet's extent and slope off current aerial imagery and turns it into surface area, squares, predominant pitch and a facet count.
Field shingles, underlayment, ice and water shield, tear-off, penetrations, labor and a labelled allowance — each tagged with whether it was measured, derived, assumed or allowed for. Export it as a spreadsheet and put a contractor's quote beside it.
What it measures
Every roofing estimate is only as good as the measurement under it. Here is what sits under this one — read it before the price, not after.
The three things no aerial view can see — what's on the roof now, how many layers, and how many vents and pipes — start at typical values, and three quick questions on the report replace them with yours.
Who uses it
Homeowners
Re-roofing is one of the largest unplanned expenses a household faces, and it is priced behind a sales visit. Get an independent, itemized number first — built from your actual roof, not a national cost-per-square-foot average — and you can tell an inflated bid from a thorough one, and a cheap bid from one that skipped the underlayment.
Get an estimateContractors
Sending someone out to scope a job burns an afternoon before you know whether the lead is worth having. Price a roof from the address, anchor every estimator on your team to the same measurement and the same rates, and get a professional-looking number out while the homeowner is still waiting on callbacks.
Get an estimateIt is the same software and the same $18 whether you're pricing your own roof or quoting a customer's. There is no separate homeowner or contractor price, and nothing on this page decides which one you are.
What you get
Total sloped surface area measured from current satellite imagery, converted to roofing squares.
Predominant pitch, per-facet slope, and a facet count that drives the complexity reading.
Field shingles, starter and ridge, synthetic underlayment, ice and water shield, drip edge and flashing, ventilation — costed per square, not lumped.
Priced from the measured area, the number of layers you tell us about, and a penetration count you can correct.
Applied by complexity — 10%, 14% or 18% — so the number reflects what gets ordered, not the theoretical roof area.
The same roof priced across three shingle grades, so the material decision is a number rather than a conversation.
Built from the age and quality of the imagery and how complicated the roof is. Low confidence says so on the report rather than presenting as certainty.
Every line, what it was based on, and the same notes as the report — so a contractor's quote can be set beside it line for line.
Measured, derived, assumed, you told us, or allowance. You can see which is which at a glance, which is the whole point.
The comparison
Traditional measurement still has a place — nothing replaces someone standing on the roof before a contract is signed. But for budgeting, comparison shopping and lead qualification, waiting on a ladder and a tape measure stopped being necessary.
| Measure | Traditional site visit | McQueen Roofing |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a number | Days — scheduled around a truck | Under a minute |
| Cost | Free, in exchange for a sales visit | $18 per roof, no visit |
| Who measures | Whichever estimator was sent | The same pipeline every time |
| Ridge, hip and valley lengths | Measured on the roof | Allowance on the $18 · precise takeoff on Pro |
| What's under the shingles | Can be inspected | Typical values, corrected by three questions |
| Comparable line by line | Rarely — most quotes are lump sum | Always — itemized and exportable |
| Best for | Final bid, and structural problems | Budgeting and qualification · bids on Pro |
Three ways to price a roof
Roofing estimating software is only as good as the measurement underneath it, so each tier is labelled by the measurement it runs on rather than by how much it costs.
Live
The calculator on the home page runs in your browser and assumes a roof footprint from typical homes. It measures nothing, the assumption is written into an editable field so you can correct it, and every label on it says so.
Live
Your actual roof, measured from current aerial imagery: real surface area, real pitch, real facet count, priced line by line. The fast, defensible number for budgeting, comparison shopping and qualifying a lead.
In build
Takeoff-grade roof measurement for contractors: every ridge, hip, valley, rake and eave measured individually, a facet diagram, and a report you can order materials against and attach to a formal bid. Start on the $18 estimate and you'll be first in line when Pro opens.
If we can't measure your roof — no recent imagery, or a building that isn't a house — the $18 is released rather than spent, you keep the credit, and manual entry is free.
$18 per measured roof, paid once. There is no subscription to reach it and no sales call attached to it. You do need an account, because the estimate is saved to it and you can come back to it.
Roof area, pitch and facet count are measured from current aerial imagery, so the quantities are your roof's rather than an average house's — which is the part most estimates get wrong. Ridge, hip, valley, rake and eave lengths are carried as one calibrated allowance sized from roofs like yours, and Pro measures them individually. Every number on the report is tagged with where it came from, so you can see exactly what you're working with.
No, and it is not sold as one. An aerial view cannot see decking rot, flashing that has failed, or anything structural. Get a physical inspection before signing a contract — this is the number you take into that conversation.
No. Enter the address and confirm we've got the right building. If there's no usable imagery — common on new builds — you can enter the measurements you have and we'll price those instead, at no charge.
It is built and priced for asphalt shingle residential re-roofs, the highest-volume job type in U.S. residential roofing. You can tell us the roof is currently wood shake, tile or metal and the tear-off is priced accordingly. Metal, flat and EPDM estimating are next.
Yes, at the same $18. Price a roof from the address to qualify a lead and get a professional itemized number in front of a homeowner the same day, then move to Pro for the takeoff-grade measurement a material order or a formal bid needs.
The $18 estimate gives you measured area, squares, pitch and facet count with every line item costed — enough to budget, compare and qualify. Pro is the takeoff tier: ridge, hip, valley, rake and eave measured individually, a facet diagram, and a report built to order materials against. It is in build now, and the fastest way to be first in line is to run an estimate.
Three quotes vary by estimator, pricing model and how busy each shop is, and lump-sum quotes give you nothing to compare. This gives you one consistent itemized baseline first, so the quotes have something to be measured against.
The credit is released rather than consumed. You keep what you paid for, you get manual entry free, and you are not asked to pay again for the roof we failed to measure.
Per-square material and labor rates we maintain and tune, applied to the quantities measured off your own roof. The measurement is what makes the number yours: the same rates against a roof 40% larger than you assumed is how estimates end up thousands out.
Enter an address and get an itemized, measured roofing estimate in under a minute — with every number labelled by where it came from.