What people call a roofer about here
Four shapes cover most of it. They want different conversations, and telling them apart early saves a lot of wasted time.
Roofing sounds like one trade. In practice the four jobs below barely resemble each other. One is mostly an insurance conversation, one is mostly a diagnosis, one is a construction project and one is a twenty minute look that decides which of the other three you are in.
Hail damage
The one that writes most of the roofing bills on the South Plains, and mostly an insurance conversation before a construction one.
Roof repair
A leak with no storm behind it is usually a detail failure rather than a worn out roof, and detail failures are repairable.
Roof replacement
A full tear off is a two to four day construction project on your house, and the parts that matter are the ones you never see again.
Roof inspection
Twenty minutes that tells you which of the other three conversations you are actually in.