I've got a roof with 30 squares of shingles, and I priced out about $3200 in materials if I do this myself. I'm wondering what I'm looking at if I called up a roofing company to do the same job. Guess the best way
is to get an estimate, but I'm thinking at least twice that amount? Whatcha think.

 

Your biggest issue will be hauling the old shingles off. I liked to have never got rid of all of mine when I did the roof on our last house. Our local dump will only take so many at a time, so I had to spread it out over several trips. And you won't know it till you haul a load in there that's too big. Then you gotta take them all home and unload half and bring them back.

Reroofing a house is hot, hard, ugly work. And if you don't get it right, it will always leak. When we built the house we're in, we went with a lifetime warranty metal roof, so I won't have to do this again.

I'd always recomend hiring it out from a good comapny with refrence and jobs you can go look at, and one that is established and will still be in business if you have an issue ina year from now.

When a hurricane came through our town a couple of years ago, we had alot of homes with roof damage. Alot of companies showed up like ambulance chasers and made alot of $$$ fast. Now they are gone and thers alot of people with 20 year warranties that are useless.

 

Cant help you with prices but we were pitching the old shingles into the truck as we pulled them. Got ready to go to the dump but the truck was sitting too low (wheel well rub). Those shingles get heavy.

 

I did mine a couple of years ago. It cost me about $2000 in materials and I paid $1500 to get half of it done by someone else as the slope was too steep for me (take one step up and slide back two).

I did get a quote at the time and it was about $7000. Even paying for someone to do the steep half, rental equipment, purchase of things like a compressor and nailer I still spent about $4000.

Experience? Priceless!

Not a job I would want to do very often as I had to do it after work and on weekends. To make it more fun, as soon as I tore off half of the roof we had rain roll in for about 3 days.

 

How steep is your roof? Basic rate is 225@square installed, rancher style house. Jack and plank starts out at 300 a square. Premium shingles add 30, premium felt 15.

Soooo..... 30 square@225=6750 add 15% to cover drip edge, cap, ridge vent etc. 7762.50 materials, disposal, installed. Flashing around chimney etc. add 100-500 depending on what you have to do.

 

Thanks for your replies. I had it quoted out at $8100, and that's bring it up to new Fla. state codes , and even with 110mph shingles, so they better git r done, my wife told me to stay off the friggen roof because my medical bills would probably be higher after..

 

Thats a pretty good price, about 1k less than I would have quoted. Premium shingles are the 110MPH ones, they have a solid sealing strip instead of 3 2" lines. The new wind proof felt looks like a plastic tarp coated in rubber. Its pertty hoss stuff.

 

Thanks for your replies, I feel better about the price now.