The storm call goes to whoever picks up
It rains, forty people call every roofer in town at once, and you are on a roof with a nail gun. By the time you climb down and listen to voicemail, three of them have already booked someone else.
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She reads your own services, prices and hours, so she answers the way you would.
The shingles on the back of my house are lifting after that wind, and now there's a brown stain on the bedroom ceiling.
That sounds like water is already getting in. I can book an inspection. What's the street and city?
Cornwall Street in Etobicoke. Two storey. It drips when it rains hard, we've got a pot under it.
I'll mark it as an active leak so it goes near the top of the list. Does it only come in when the rain is driving, or in any rain at all?
Only when it's blowing in from the back.
That's worth the roofer knowing before he's up there. How old is the roof, roughly?
It was on when we bought, so about twelve years? Maybe more.
I'll put down about twelve and that you're not certain. Is it shingle right across, or is there a flat section over anything?
Shingle. There's a small flat bit over the back porch.
Noted. Is this going through insurance, or are you paying direct?
Insurance, probably. It was the windstorm.
Has an adjuster been out yet?
No, I've only just phoned them.
Then I'll write it down as a claim with no adjuster yet. What it's going to cost is a question for the roofer once he's on the ladder, but I can book him to come and look. Thursday morning is open.
Thursday's good. I'm home until noon.
Booked. Last thing, can a ladder get round the back, and is there a gate or a dog?
Gate's on the left and it isn't locked. No dog.
That's everything. I'm texting you the confirmation now, and the roofer gets your name, your number, an active leak in driving rain, a shingle roof about twelve years old, a flat section over the porch, an insurance claim with no adjuster yet, and the gate on the left.
A scripted demonstration for roofers, not a recording of a customer call: the business, the caller and any prices in it are made up, and the caller is voiced. What is real is the receptionist, and you can hear her live on the demo line above.
She asks, and she writes down exactly what the caller said, then flags the ones who say water is coming in. She cannot see the roof and she does not judge how bad it is. A caller who plays it down will read as calm, so the call is still yours to make.
Only what you typed into your own price list at setup, and she reads it back as you wrote it. If the caller describes something your list does not cover, she says the roof needs measuring, takes their details, and offers to have you call back. She never invents a figure.
She answers more than one call at a time, so nobody gets a busy signal or voicemail. Every caller arrives as a text with the name, the number and what they said, plus a row in your dashboard. You still choose who to go to first.
She writes down which one it is, because you deal with them differently. A caller who says water is coming in gets flagged as an active leak, with the room, the kind of rain it takes, and whether there is a pot on the floor. A caller who saw the neighbour's roof being done and thought they would ask gets taken down as a quote, with the age of the roof and what they can see from the ground. Both reach you as a text. Neither one has to be sorted by you at the top of a ladder with your phone in your teeth.
She can write it down. She cannot run it. She asks whether it is a claim or they are paying direct, whether an adjuster has been out, and which storm they think did it, and all of that is on the lead before you meet them, so you are not finding out on the driveway that there is a claim number and a deadline attached. She does not speak to an insurer, fill anything in, or tell a caller what will be covered or what their deductible means. Those are your conversations and the adjuster's, not a receptionist's.
It is the drive out, the setup, the hour up there, and the job you moved to make room for it. She cannot see the roof and she will not pretend to grade it, but she asks the things that let you grade it yourself before anybody sets off: where the water is showing, in what kind of rain, how old the roof is, whether the back is even reachable with a ladder, whether somebody has already tarped it. That is the difference between choosing your morning and finding out what it was when you are standing in the driveway with the ladder still on the rack.
None of this needs you. She answers, asks what you would have asked, books the inspection into your Google Calendar and texts the caller their confirmation while you are still up there. Your text and the full transcript are waiting when you come down, and a call she answered at eleven does not stop being a lead because you did not read it until one.
No, and she will not guess at it. She books an inspection into a slot your calendar genuinely has open, which is a booking, not a promise about a crew. She does not know where your trucks are, whether the job before ran long, or what the weather is doing on the day. When she does not know something she says so and takes a message, which is the only version of this that does not cost you an apology and a phone call later.
Wind in the spring and the fall, ice at the eaves and a ceiling stain in the middle of winter, a shingle in the yard after the first real blow, and a quiet stretch where the only calls are quotes. Same phone, different caller, and always several at once. She answers the same on a Sunday in a storm as on a Tuesday in June, and writes down the same things either way, so your week stops depending on who happened to be free to pick up when it rained.
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She answers, asks what you would ask, and puts the job in your calendar.
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