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Confirm the building. Measure the roof.

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Automatic roof drawings are still being built. Treat the roof lines a takeoff draws, and their lengths, as a first look. What works today: the takeoff saves the aerial photo on the job. Where a usable 3D scan covers the roof, it measures roof area and squares. You can also draw the roof by hand on that photo, type the pitch, and price a proposal from it. Check every number on site before you order material.

On the Permit & Compliance plan, $149 a month. Put the whole crew on it. Nobody pays per person.

The plan sheet from a FL Permit Pay takeoff: the roof drawn in plan view with a plain number on every run that has room for one, hollow tags reading number 12, number 13 and number 15 on the three runs that do not, a letter A to H on each facet, a north arrow, a 10 ft scale bar, and the line reading a tag like number 12 is a run id, not a length.
FL Permit PayA plan sheet a takeoff drew on its own. Automatic drawings are still being built, so read it as a first look. Plain numbers where a run has room for one, a hollow tag where it does not, a letter on every facet, north and scale. The key is set on the drawing itself, so a photo of one page still reads: a tag like #12 is a run id, not a length.

A measured result has to earn the label.

Each step leaves its evidence on the job record.

  • Confirm the right building

    Use the job address as a starting point, then confirm the roof scope before analysis begins.

  • Keep the calibrated capture

    Keep the image, where it came from, when it was saved, and the scope you confirmed, together on the job.

  • Measure from a 3D scan where there is one

    Public LiDAR (USGS 3DEP and NOAA Digital Coast) measures the roof in 3D where a usable scan covers it. Where it does not, the takeoff tries the finer 3D roof surface Google Solar publishes for some addresses. It also tries that surface when LiDAR found no inside corners. Where Google has only pitch and area, the lines are sketched from the building outline and the takeoff says so. If nothing answers, you get a footprint estimate, labeled as one.

  • Review the result, its source, and its gaps

    Four things stay apart. What we measured. What we called an estimate. What we could not get. And what you still check in the field.

  • Draw the roof by hand for the proposal

    Trace the roof outline on the aerial photo, press Build roof to lay in the hips, ridges and valleys, move or retype any line, and type the pitch. The takeoff is stamped Hand-traced, never Measured, and a proposal prices from it.

Already paying for roof reports? Bring them here.

A contractor who already buys roof reports should not have to buy the numbers twice to get them onto a job.

LivePaste the report, or upload the PDFOn the job, FL Permit Pay reads the roof quantities it finds (squares, area, pitch, eaves, rakes, ridges, hips, valleys, flashings, penetrations, facets), writes them onto that job's measurement record, and files the PDF with the job. Those quantities are what a proposal package prices against, so a report you already bought prices the job.
LiveIt does not spend an aerial reportThe monthly aerial report allowance meters the aerial takeoffs FL Permit Pay runs for you. A report you bought elsewhere and imported does not come out of it.
LiveEagleView, GAF QuickMeasure, Vexcel, Nearmap, or OtherThe provider you pick only labels the report in your records. There is no separate reader per provider, so any provider's report is read the same way.
Out of scopeNo connection to those companiesFL Permit Pay is not affiliated with them and does not order or fetch reports for you. It reads the text in a PDF, so a scanned image with no text layer has nothing to read.

The replacement math

Measured reports come with the plan, so a busy month is not a stack of per-roof bills.

  • Permit & Compliance: 15 measured reports a month, then $12 for each one after that.
  • Operator: 30 measured reports a month, then $9 for each one after that.

Measure 30 roofs in a storm month and, at Operator's own extra-report price, that work would come to $270. On Operator those 30 are already in the plan, and each measurement lands on the job it belongs to.

Start from the address. Keep the evidence attached.

Open the job, confirm the intended building, and review the available measurement path.

Availability depends on the saved scope, feature access, quota, service state, and qualifying public LiDAR coverage. Step by step: Run an aerial takeoff.
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