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Date Posted: Mon, Nov 18 2002, 9:21am
Author: Sandy
Subject: Price per square to reshingle an asphalt roof

I have a barn that has a Dutch roof it is approximately 39 squares. The sheathing is in great shape, I might need new tar paper. How much per square should I expect to pay to have 30 year shingle put on and to have the old taken off? I live in Manchester, Maryland

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[> Re: Price per square to reshingle an asphalt roof -- A Roofer, Mon, Nov 18 2002, 9:37pm

Most barns have a Gambrel Roof?
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First thing, standard practice up here in the Northwest is that all tear offs never reuse the existing paper. If someone is offering you a break in the money by reusing your existing felt paper I would question their workmanship.

Any possible sheeting repairs are usually written as an added cost to the job. When we write up our contracts we put in a contingency charge stating our per sheet or per foot cost for possibly repairing the roof deck and that it is not to exceed over $200 without customer authorization. I had a customer that knew he would need some serious deck repair and his total cost only came to $100 extra dollars. I also document a jobs progress with my digital camera and place photos on a CD so the customers knows that they are getting their money's worth.

Click here to see repaired deck

As far as price goes it matters how steep it is. A Roof at a 4/12 pitch is less labor intensive then a 12/12 pitch for instance. Many companies also take into consideration your landscaping and the level of difficulty in protecting them from possible damage. Having a lot of separate valleys and hips all over the place is also a consideration for companies that pay their guys hourly because it takes more time to do a house with say 18 different sides to it compared to one the same size cut into four side. Its scary to take a low bid on a cut-up house from a company that pays their guys piece work because the installers feel added pressure to take short cuts to keep their earnings at their normal levels. I pay my installers piece work but I also add pay for a home's difficulty level as well as pitch. Many companies just adjust pay by roof pitch for piece workers. If your house is on a steep hill or unusually high in the air it effects our estimates also.

So how much should you pay for a 39sq Dutch Roof having the old comp removed and a 30yr Laminate installed?

Tax not included and your house being as gravy as a Dutch roof can be our lowest bid would probably come in around $6,435. Of course we give a written 10yr workmanship warranty along with the paper work for the manufacturer's warranty, the photo CD documenting the job as it progressed, and guaranteed discounted prices for the life of the roof on all possible maintenance the roof could need. Same pitch but being cut-up as bad as a house could be with a low pitch I expect we'd be around $8,190. Any estimate coming in less then $5,850 would cause me concern about the possible workmanship and if they are paying all the taxes they are suppose to be paying or dumping their roof scrapes off some road out in the boonies somewhere. I'm pretty good at job costing my roofs to make sure I'll survive in business but I have competed against bids that were so low before that I would have made more money roofing for my previous employers then at the price I've seen the rare bids come in at. I also calculated what we would be at if this house was the steepest cut-up nightmare and landscaping I have ever seen and that number would be $15,010.

Just in case it might be a standard Gambrel Barn Roof (steep sides w/ low pitch top) our cost would be around $9,750.

Hope this was the info you were interested in,
Tim Soth / A Roofer


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