Xactimate Code RFG|RFG300S — Roofing

What it is

RFG|RFG300S is the Xactimate SEL code for replacing a laminated (architectural) composition shingle roof without felt, measured in squares (SQ).

It sits in the Roofing (RFG) category, and one square is 100 square feet of roof surface. “Laminated” is the two-layer dimensional shingle that dominates modern residential roofing, and “w/out felt” means the line covers the shingle covering only — the felt underlayment is not included in this line and is estimated separately when the scope requires it.

This is one of the most heavily used lines across claim scopes processed through ESXPress: it appears in 186 of the 358 scopes analysed (about 52.0% — one in every two scopes) and in 46 of the 61 converted customer scopes. ESXPress observed 292 line items written against this code, and every one was measured in SQ.

When to use it

Apply RFG|RFG300S when the scope calls for replacing laminated or architectural composition shingles and the felt underlayment is not part of the line. The real-world act texts follow the reference wording almost exactly: 275 of the 292 observed line items (94.2%) were written with this code.

The evidence shows the code is used for dwellings and outbuildings alike: lines appear qualified as “Laminated comp shingle w/out felt - Dwelling” and “Laminated comp shingle w/out felt - Shed”, which is how estimators split the house roof from a shed or garage roof while keeping the same SEL code. Every observed line describes installing the shingle covering itself — none of the sampled lines mention felt, underlayment, or accessories — so if the line being written describes something other than the covering, a different Roofing code is the right call.

Because it appears in more than half of the processed scopes, it is effectively the default covering line for laminated shingle work in the claims ESXPress analyses, and it pairs with the rest of the roof system — the strongest co-occurrence is with the hip/ridge cap line RFG|RFGRIDGCS (97 scopes), followed by tear-off of the old laminated shingles RFG|RFGARMV> (67 scopes), felt RFG|RFGFELT30 (24), this code RFG|RFGVMTL (17), and flue cap FPL|FPLFLCP (17).

How to use it

Measure and write the line in squares (SQ): all 292 observed line items (100%) used SQ — there is no unit variation for this code in the processed scopes. One SQ is 100 square feet of roof area, so a 30-square roof writes as qty 30.

The dominant line text is this code (275 of the 292 sampled lines, 94.2%). The remaining lines are the same work with a building qualifier (“Dwelling”, “Shed”) or with the scope split out explicitly — “install”, “material”, and “supply” variants each appear in the samples, showing that estimators occasionally separate installation from material. A single line reads “Lam comp shingle” — shorthand that ESXPress normalises to the full description when mapping scopes.

ESXPress’s Completeness Advisor has no rule that references this code, so its usage evidence is purely observational: 186 scopes, 292 line items, 100% SQ. The ridge cap pairing is the strongest across processed scopes at lift 1.59 — roughly 59% more often than expected if the two lines were written independently.

Often used together

Two kinds of related codes are listed below. First, codes that appear in the same scopes as RFG|RFG300S — co-occurrence measured across the claim scopes processed through ESXPress with support of at least 3 scopes and lift of at least 1.5. Second, other frequently used Roofing (RFG) category codes, ranked by how often they appear in the analysed scopes. Descriptions are from the ESXPress code reference.

• RFG|RFGRIDGCS — Roofing
• RFG|RFGARMV> — Roofing
• PNT|PNTVENT — Painting
• RFG|RFGFELT30 — Roofing
• PNT|PNTP2 — Painting
• FPL|FPLFLCP — Fireplaces
• RFG|RFGDRIP — Roofing
• RFG|RFGFLPIPE — Roofing
• RFG|RFGASTR- — Roofing
• RFG|RFGIWS — Roofing

Real-world examples

Each example is an anonymised line from a processed claim scope: the exact operation text and unit of measure adjusters wrote, with the observed line-item count. The count is line frequency across the analysed samples — never a price and never a quantity from a specific claim.

• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Laminated comp shingle w/out felt - Dwelling”, SQ, qty 3.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Shingles, Laminated/Architectural, Good, Install”, SQ, qty 2.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Laminated comp shingle w/out felt - Shed”, SQ, qty 2.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Lam comp shingle”, SQ, qty 1.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Laminated - comp. shingle rfg. - install”, SQ, qty 1.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Laminated - comp. shingle rfg. - material”, SQ, qty 1.
• In a real claim, this line appeared as: “Shingles, Laminated/Architectural, Supply”, SQ, qty 1.