Every number in your Xactimate estimate flows from one source: the price list. This guide explains how Verisk builds and updates its localized price lists, why prices change monthly (and faster after storms), how the "Completed estimate" feedback loop quietly shapes future pricing, and the practical rules every roofer should follow — from always estimating on the current list to knowing when and how to adjust a price the list gets wrong.

Steep-slope roofs punish sloppy estimating — extra labor, harness time, staging, and charges that vanish from scopes because nobody built them into the system. This guide walks through setting up Xactimate templates and macros specifically for steep-slope residential work: what belongs in your base macro, how to layer add-on macros for chimneys and dormers, how to make steep and high charges impossible to forget, and how to organize a library your whole team can run.

Three of the most important components on a residential roof are invisible the day the job is done — and missing from carrier scopes with suspicious regularity. This guide gives roofers the working knowledge for drip edge, starter strip, and ice & water shield: what the IRC actually requires (with section numbers), the installation sequencing that inspectors check, why manufacturer instructions carry code force, and how to document each item so it survives claim review.