How a roof planning range is built — inputs and assumptions shown.
Roofprint builds the available range from property inputs, a versioned price book, and named assumptions. Numerical guide bands stay hidden until their source version and review date are approved.
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- Assumptions shown
- Yours to keep
How the planning range is built
Three steps, and each one is on the record. This is where you can check us: we tell you which numbers are preliminary, estimated, reviewed, or still assumptions.
Read the available roof data
We derive a preliminary roof-area and pitch read from the property data available for your address — two inputs that drive much of the cost. Each figure is labelled by its evidence state; it is not called measured until the artifact has actually cleared that standard.
Run the price book
Available roof inputs run through a versioned price book. When numerical bands are public, the version and review date appear beside them rather than being implied by marketing copy.
Widen for what imagery can’t see — layers and deck
What imagery cannot confirm — hidden layers, deck condition, access — stays as a band, not a single number. Less certainty means a wider range, shown honestly, and it tightens on site once a roofer confirms the details.
A read, labelled
How the band widens
What a roof replacement costs by size and system
Numerical planning bands appear only with their price-book version, review date, HST basis, and planning-range caveat.
Numerical bands are held back
Add the approved price-book version and review date to the release evidence before publishing GTA or per-system guide bands.
Systems: Essential is the base architectural-shingle planning tier; Enhanced adds upgraded product and ventilation decisions; Premium covers designer or impact-rated options where the selected-product documents support them. Compare the full detail in roofing systems, or see a city breakdown in the GTA cost guide.
What moves your number
Six things account for most of the difference between one roof and another. None of them are hidden — they’re what the read measures and what the on-site check confirms.
Facets & complexity
More valleys, hips, dormers and separate roof planes mean more cutting, flashing and slower work than a simple gable — the biggest reason two quotes on similar-size homes differ.
Pitch (steepness)
A steep roof can’t be walked normally, so it needs staging and is slower and riskier to work. Steeper pitch also adds surface area against the same footprint.
Access & storeys
Three-storey, tight-lot or hard-to-reach roofs cost more to stage and clean up safely. The most complex access is pulled out of instant pricing for an in-person look.
Old layers to remove
A second layer to tear off roughly doubles removal and disposal. Layers are hard to confirm from the sky, so they stay a planning assumption until the roofer checks the edge.
Deck condition
Rotted plywood under the old roof is invisible until tear-off. The written proposal should state how concealed deck work is documented, approved, and priced if it is found.
Penetrations & details
Skylights, chimneys, plumbing stacks and vents each need their own flashing and labour. More penetrations, more detail work, more cost.
Roof replacement cost across the GTA
Housing stock, roof pitch and complexity shift the numbers city by city. Each guide carries genuinely local detail — not the same page with the name swapped.
What we won’t do
The storm-chaser playbook is a blurry photo, a cash deposit, and a price that balloons once the crew is on your roof. Published, labelled pricing is the opposite of that — here’s what that means in practice.
- No deposit timing implied by a marketing badge. The signed agreement controls when and how payments are due.
- No unexplained scope additions. Any change from the planning range is reviewed with you in writing before work continues.
- No pressure countdowns or “today-only” discounts to rush a signature.
- A planning range with its assumptions shown — before anyone asks for your phone number.
- A firm price confirmed on site with photos, and any scope change reviewed in writing first.
- Milestone payment tied to written terms, so what you pay follows what’s actually done.
Before you accept a firm quote, Roofprint shows the written scope, price, cancellation terms, deposit timing, and any consent needed for scope or price changes. Legal terms publish only from the signed agreement and counsel-approved launch copy.
Pricing at a glance
Roof pricing, answered honestly
Roofprint publishes numerical planning bands only when the price-book version, review date, scope, and HST treatment have cleared the release gate. Your property inputs and roof-check findings determine the applicable range and firm price.
Neither — it’s a planning range. It’s built from an address-based roof-area and pitch read run through a fixed price book, then widened for what remote data can’t confirm. A firm price is only set after a roofer confirms layers, deck condition and access on site. We say “planning range,” not “estimate,” on purpose.
The width reflects honest uncertainty. A clear image of a simple roof gives a tighter band; a complex or partly obscured roof, or an unknown number of old layers, gives a wider one. The band narrows as we learn more, and closes to a single figure at the on-site confirmation.
No — the ranges shown are before Ontario’s 13% HST, which is added on top and is lawful to state separately. Your written proposal itemizes the price and the HST so the total is clear before you sign.
Deposit timing is set out in writing before you sign. Your signed agreement sets out booking, deposit timing and cancellation terms in writing before you commit. We don’t take a cash deposit on the spot.
Your firm price is confirmed on-site with photos, and any scope or price change is reviewed in writing before work proceeds. This is our own policy, not a legal guarantee — Ontario’s statutory 10% cap applies to auto repair, not roofing.
Numerical bands stay hidden until Roofprint can show the price-book version and review date beside them. The method still uses property inputs, named assumptions, and a roof check before a firm price.
Averages are a starting point. Your roof is specific.
Enter your address for a planning range built from your actual roof — every assumption on the record, before anyone asks for your number.
Figures on this page are Roofprint planning ranges for the GTA in 2026, sourced to our stated price-book basis and current material and labour costs. They are directional planning figures — not a market survey, an appraisal, or a firm quote — and are shown before 13% HST. Your planning range is calculated from your roof and confirmed on site before any firm price. Deposit, cancellation and change-of-scope terms are set out in writing in your signed agreement.