Roofing before-and-after reports that answer the question before it’s asked

The roofing shot list

Shoot the same areas before and after, from roughly the same spot, so each pair reads at a glance. A typical repair needs eight to twelve photos; a full replacement more.

• Street view of the house before you set up, so the report is tied to the address.
• Each slope from the ground or a ladder, before and after. Wide shots first, details second.
• The damage itself: missing or creased shingles, hail bruising, granule loss, lifted tabs.
• Flashing at chimneys, walls, skylights and pipe boots — before and after. Leaks start here, and so do questions.
• Decking once it’s exposed. This is the shot people skip and later wish they had: soft or rotted boards, and how many sheets you replaced.
• Underlayment, ice and water shield, drip edge going on — the layers the homeowner never sees again.
• Ventilation: ridge vent, box vents, intake.
• Gutters, landscaping and driveway after cleanup, including the magnet sweep.

What belongs on page 1

Most customers read page 1 and skim the rest. Make it carry the whole story:

• Your company name, phone and license number, so the report is clearly yours.
• Customer name, property address, date of work and the technician or crew lead.
• A one- or two-line scope: “Replaced 14 sheets of decking, new synthetic underlayment, re-flashed chimney.”
• Materials worth recording: shingle line and color, underlayment type.
• The single most important before-and-after pair — usually the damage that caused the call.
• Warranty wording or where to find it.

Why it’s worth the extra five minutes

Payment disputes. “I didn’t know you replaced decking” is hard to argue with when there is a dated photo of soft boards on page 1. Change orders are easier to collect when the customer has already seen why.

Warranty claims. If a leak shows up two years later, photos of the flashing and underlayment you installed help separate a workmanship problem from storm damage or someone else’s satellite dish.

Insurance jobs. Homeowners and adjusters often want photos of the damage and the completed repair. A tidy PDF is easier to forward than forty loose texts. It supports a claim; it does not replace the carrier’s own inspection or forms.

Referrals. A clean report gets forwarded to a spouse, a landlord or a neighbor. It is a quiet sales sheet.

How CloseoutCam builds it

Create a job, add the customer, address, date and technician, then shoot or import your photos and tag each one Before or After. Add a short caption to each photo and a few lines of notes. Tap Create Report and CloseoutCam lays out a page-numbered PDF with before and after side by side, ready to send by text or email from the iOS share sheet. Building the report works with no signal; sending it needs one.

With Pro, the Roofing template titles the sections “Existing Roof Condition” and “Completed Roof Work”, suggests captions like “Exposed decking” and “Flashing detail”, prompts for decking, underlayment and flashing notes, and adds a workmanship-warranty footer. Every word stays editable. With Pro you can also circle the damage or draw an arrow on a photo, and put your logo and license number in the header.

The first 3 reports are free on the general contracting template, with a small “Created with CloseoutCam” line in the footer. Pro is $9.99/month or $79.99/year per Apple ID and adds unlimited reports, every trade template, your branding and photo markup, and removes the footer line.

The sample is a roofing report built with Pro (Roofing template, branding and markup). Sample report uses illustrative photos — “Northwind Roofing” is a fictional company and the photos are AI-generated, not a real job.