# How much did you pay to re-roof your house?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-pay-to-re-roof-your-house/178428 "2003-05-30T01:56:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-pay-to-re-roof-your-house/178428/21 "2003-06-02T19:21:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by pkbites \*  
> \*\ ***ShibbOleth** , my brother owns a roofing/siding business, and he told me your entire post, every word, is 100% correct! \*\*

🆒

That’s cool; I wasn’t that certain. I did roofing for about a year when I was 19 years old, which was a half a lifetime ago. Hot roofing in Florida, no less, which takes a special brand of stupid or desperate. BTW, tearing up old flat pebble roofs is probably the nastiest physical labor I’ve ever done, save maybe kettle tender.

**JC** , how does a steel roof with black coating do for insulation in the summer? Doesn’t sound great, but sometimes these things can fool you.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-pay-to-re-roof-your-house/178428/22 "2003-06-02T19:23:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by handy \*  
> On Maui I saw tin roofs. They were very cheap but when it rained, made \*\*quite a bit of noise. \*\*

**Handy** , aren’t you… ah, nevermind.

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