What prices should I anticipate? My house is a rectangle 28’ by 49’. The roof is simple, one ridge, pretty low angle, only about 8’ above the decks at the edge, one small skylight, and I think my total roof area is about 1750 or 1800 square feet (I’m including the roof angle in this estimation). I think I need the old shingles removed down to the plywood and probably about 2 or 3 sheets of plywood for patching some areas near the edge.
Anybody want to guess?
Regional differences will be a major factor.
I’m putting on a roof right now. 2300 sq ft house, single story, pitched roof, 30-yr asphalt shingles, some repair needed around the edges, 3 attic vents, chimney, single old shingle layer to be removed, $8K.
Location matters.
Anywhere from $300-350 per 100 SF
Decking will be $50-100 per sheet of plywood. (4x8)
Cost of permit.
fisha-roofer in MN
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
PS, Pick your roofer carefully.
It’s been about 4 years now, but I had a remarkably similar job done. My house is 34’ x 54’, low pitch, one ridge. I had 2 layers of old shingles torn off, about 8 sheets of plywood sheathing replaced, and new gutters installed. I also had a ridge vent added, which seemed to be a trivial part of the job.
The price, here in Ohio in 2008, was $8000. The gutters and downspouts were approaching $1000 of that. The place I went with wasn’t the cheapest, or the most expensive. They were middle-of-the-road pricewise, and gave me warm fuzzies during the estimate.
This data point is probably next to meaningless. But it’s what I know.
No permit needed here. It’s a repair job, not new construction.
Sounds like a two-day job for four or five guys, including the boss. Since everybody’s scrambling for work now, you might be able to find somebody to do it in the $3000 range. The materials will run about $1500. Guys who employ Latino labor can usually charge less, because most white guys who do roofing have drug problems and require a higher rate of pay. Also, most of these guys never shop around for the best price on shingles. They always just get them from whomever they’ve been going to for years. Lowe’s almost always has the best price, so tell them you want a separate quote for the shingles, and if you can get them cheaper yourself, do that and deduct the cost from the total price of the job.
We needed a permit and an inspection to tear off and replace our roof, even way out here in the Minnesota cornfields. Around here, need for permits seems to be based on whether your project can be seen by county officials driving by on the nearest road :D.
Can I have some documentation on that? Other than my friends cousins best friends dogs breeders brother told you so?
You really think I can produce peer-reviewed literature on the subject? When you live and work within the subculture of criminals, as I did for two decades, you simply gain an understanding of how these things work.
So you spouted bullshit as fact gotcha. I am sure some fly by night companies hire such individuals or are run by such individuals. But you are insulting a large group of workers and companies by stating it is such as you did. And rather than clarify you double down, nice.
I was quoted $6k to put a new roof on top of the existing shingles or $8k to strip the old off and start from scratch.
And yes, my roofer did a fantastic job though honestly he looked like he might have been on meth. I did see in the paper that he was arrested recently, but that was for not returning money, not drugs.
RyJae, my dad owned a roofing company for almost 2 decades and worked in the industry for a couple more.
Drug abuse was a huge problem for his employees and in his younger days, his co-workers.
This is in small-town southern Oregon.
Just an anecdote of course, but it’s not complete bullshit either.
Its not BS. Roofing is very hard and highly dangerous physical work and few if any manual laborers would choose it as the preferred way to make a living, and because it is a highly competitive business it is not a particularly well paid job relative to other highly physical and dangerous jobs. The US citizens usually willing to do this kind of work are out of other options. Meth use among roofing laborers is so common it’s a cliche.