How to sketch a roof diagram quickly and CLEANLY
Sometimes you have to draw your roof diagram out by hand. In this video, learn how to do it quickly and more importantly: cleanly and legibly.
Watch now to learn:
How to create neat and proportional hand-drawn roof diagrams with this handy trick
How to accurately diagram straight gable roofs, hip roofs, and more complex roofs
How and why I use graph paper for all my hand drawn diagrams
Quick and easy scoping shorthand to use when diagraming roofs and roof accessories (turtle vents, pipe jack boots, furnace caps, chimneys, satellite dishes, ridge vents, etc.)
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Beginner’s Guide to Hand-Drawn Roof Diagrams
How to quickly create an accurate roof diagram in the field
Today I want to show you guys a really cool trick for creating really nice, professional, clean looking, hand drawn roof diagrams.
Why bother with hand-drawn diagrams when you have tools like Eagle View and Sketch at your disposal? Several reasons…
1. Xactimate Sketch is only as accurate as you are
The number one reason why I will do a hand drawn diagram and make it nice and neat is because mainly so that you have an accurate diagram from which to build your Xactimate sketch from.
2. HAND drawn roofing diagrams can SAVE You TIME
Not all carriers require an Xactimate Sketch for roofing diagrams. If it’s not required in order to close the claim, then you can skip the step of having to put it all into Sketch when you already have your basic hand-drawn diagram you created in the field. You can still build an extremely accurate hand-drawn diagram that you can upload to the file and build your estimate from that.
3. Simple roofs don’t require Xactimate SKetch Or Eagle Views
If your company isn't including an Eagle view with the file, and it doesn't make sense to buy one because the roof is really simple, then a hand-drawn diagram is the quickest, cheapest way to get the job done.
4. Eagle view limitations
Eagle Views are not available for every roof, and for many claims, they are actually incomplete. No matter what, you have to have an accurate diagram of that roof to close the claim, and sometimes the only way to do it is to draw it yourself.
A note about Eagle view diagrams:
You have to double check some of the measurements and you absolutely have to double check the pitch because if the pitch is off, the dimensions of that roof will be inaccurate. So how do we do this? Well, we just connect the dots, which is what I’m showing you in the above video!
