NZ roofing quotes
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Type what needs doing, upload a photo of the site, or attach a PDF scope or plan. The AI reads all of it.

AI generates the breakdown

Materials, labour hours, and line items — priced in NZD to current New Zealand rates, broken down by trade.

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Edit any line item, apply your markup, export a branded PDF and email it to the client from the app.

What should a New Zealand roofing quote include?

Name the roof material and grade explicitly — 0.4mm BMT long-run COLORSTEEL reads differently from metal tile or a recoat — and price removal, underlay, flashings, fixings and spouting as separate lines rather than one rate per square metre. Show 15% GST separately with your NZBN and IRD GST number. Pull access and disposal onto their own lines: scaffold is hired by the week and disposal is charged by the load, and those are the two costs New Zealand roofing quotes most often come up short on. Then state your exclusions, because a roof is the one job where you are quoting on what you cannot yet see: assume the existing purlins and timbers are sound, say that structural repairs are quoted separately, and hold the price for a stated period subject to supplier pricing.

Do I need a building consent to re-roof a house in New Zealand?

It depends on whether you are replacing like with like. Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004 exempts some repair and replacement work using comparable materials, so a straight sheet-for-sheet replacement often proceeds without a consent — but changing the roof type, for example swapping tile for long-run steel, changes the load the structure carries and the weathertightness detailing with it, and that generally takes you back to the council. Roofing also sits under clause E2 of the Building Code (external moisture), and where the work needs a consent on a house or small unit it is restricted building work, which must be done or supervised by a Licensed Building Practitioner who then issues a Record of Work. Confirm the consent position with the territorial authority before you price it, and quote the consent, inspections and any LBP supervision as real lines rather than absorbing them.

Does the AI know New Zealand roofing pricing?

Yes. Quotes are priced in NZD against current New Zealand rates — long-run COLORSTEEL supply and install, metal tile replacement, roof wash and recoat, re-bedding and repointing ridge capping, spouting and downpipes, scaffold hire and roofer labour with height and access loadings — with 15% GST applied rather than Australia’s 10%. The specification moves with the site, not just the roof: fixings and flashings follow the NZS 3604 wind zone, so a coastal Wellington roof is not costed like a sheltered inland one, and a severe marine environment changes the steel grade before it changes the price.

What about asbestos on an older New Zealand roof?

Treat it as an exclusion, not a line you absorb. Corrugated asbestos-cement roofing and its accessories are common on New Zealand houses and sheds built before the late 1980s, and disturbing them releases fibre. Under the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 removing more than 10 square metres of non-friable asbestos requires a licensed removalist, with notification to WorkSafe — that is a separate contractor’s job, not the roofer’s. So write it into the quote the way the trade actually handles it: work halts on discovery, removal is by a licensed contractor at the client’s cost, and the roofing price resumes afterwards. Agreeing that before you are on the roof is the difference between a variation and an argument.

Does Insta Quotes work for roofers anywhere in New Zealand?

Yes. Insta Quotes prices roofers quotes in NZD to current New Zealand rates nationwide, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin and regional areas, with 15% GST applied. Generate and send a branded quote wherever the job is.