How the roofing contractors in Derby measure your roof.

Whether you are a Derby roofing contractor or a DIY roofer, you need to have correct roof measurements for evaluating the cost and labor involved. When your looking to measure the roof you need to measure the square footage of the roof. In order to get an accurate measure of this square footage you must get on the roof, measure the length times the width of each facet of the home, add them together and this will give you the total square footage of the roof, This is how most of the Derby roofing companies will do it.

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Another way to measure your roof and in my opinion the best, most accurate and safest method is to get an Aerial roof measurement, i will briefly go over all the different values of the aerial roof measuring method. Many Derby roofers will measure by going up and down a ladder and using a tape measurer like we talked about earlier. This way the Derby roofing contractor can provide accurate measurements but its a bit time consuming if you take all the proper safety precautions. Here in an example of a roof that would give any Derby roofing company a challenge and leave him spending an entire day to measure, a roof with over 40 different facets all with different pitches, valleys, hips, ridges and rakes. Many of these facets will be very steep and almost impossible to walk up and down with a tape measurer making this a very extensive part of the job in these cases sometimes taking more then one day just to price the job.
It is becoming more popular in the Derby roofing industry to use an aerial roof measurement to quickly and efficiently take away all that wasted time and unnecessary risk, by getting accurate roof measurements neatly written and organized just a simple printer and you can be done with the roof measurement task. Derby roofers say that aerial roof measurements are the most accurate method on the market today, they give you the perimeter, hips, valleys, ridges and rakes of the entire roof. The Aerial roof measurements are usually very easy to read with each page showing you a different aerial view for the pitches or degrees of each facet of the roof. On one of the pages you will see the rafter runs, there will also be a page for the total square footage of each facet. There will also be a very detailed page for placing a materials order. Using Photography and Satellite imagery along with GPS this technology has made measuring a roof more accurate and more safe then ever before. These measurements will provide all the information you need to provide to a roofing contractor for a bid or for you to cost out a DIY project for repairing your Derby roof.

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I hope this post helps you decide how to measure your roof i will be posting more information about Derby roofing in later post thank you.

to study your aerial roofing report, it will go along ways.