Free tools for trade contractors
Every free estimate template on the internet is a table with your logo on it. These ones calculate. Enter a roof's length, width and pitch and get bundles of shingles. Enter room dimensions and get gallons. Free, no signup.
Built for the trade, one at a time. Each one carries the arithmetic that trade actually uses.
Enter length, width and pitch. The sheet converts footprint to sloped area, takes off the materials and prices the job.
Open template → EstimateEnter room dimensions and it calculates wall area, paint gallons, labour hours, overhead, profit and tax for a full quote.
Open template → EstimatePer-device unit pricing for residential work: count the openings on the plan, multiply, done.
Open template → EstimateEnter your areas; the sheet turns them into cubic yards, sod pallets and a priced estimate you can hand to the customer.
Open template → InvoiceA free Excel invoice that does the math, plus a log that tells you which invoices actually got paid.
Open template → InvoiceA free Excel invoice built for HVAC work, with refrigerant tracking, equipment details and a log that flags overdue invoices.
Open template → InvoiceA free Excel invoice built for plumbing work — job details, warranty terms, and a log that tracks who owes you.
Open template → InvoiceA free Excel invoice that bills by the visit and prints your scope of work, so nobody argues about what was included.
Open template → FormA two-page Word template that documents the change, the cost, the new contract sum, and the schedule — before the work starts.
Open template →Answer on the page, on your phone, standing in the driveway.
Ask a contractor what margin they make on a job priced with the standard ten percent overhead and ten percent profit, and most will say twenty percent. It is about seventeen and a half.
Overhead is applied to job cost. Profit is applied to the total after overhead. Run the arithmetic on a $7,000 job and you get $8,470 — a gross margin of 17.4%, not 20%. Every estimate template on this site shows you that number directly, on the sheet, because a business plan built on a margin you do not actually earn is a business plan that runs out of money in February.
Because a template is a lousy thing to sell and a good thing to be known for. If the roofing estimator saves you an argument with a homeowner, you will remember where you got it. That is the whole business model, stated plainly.