I paid 10k for a detached bungalow reroof. I think the tiles are a quid each, scaff was a grand, skip 250, breathable membrane is q expensive. The guys did it in summer and were rained off a few days, boiling hot in the heatwave, so lost a few days. Nice and watertight now, attic breathes too.
Any idea how hard it is to even get a roofer to come and look?
If it makes you feel any better we’ve just spent the best part of $500k on a house renovation based on a single quote… because that’s all we could get.
I’m getting the garage and shed rooves done separately afterwards for $25k and that’s reusing existing battens.
I’m not sullying my shiny new tools on my manky roof! They’re going to be stored next to the bike, and stroked occasionally.
I’ll start the bidding at one roof tile and a batten.
I've got a semi flat 60m2 part of my roof including scaffolding it was £8.5k but that was replacing old zinc with a modern but relatively cheap roofing material. Replacing with zinc would have been £20k.
The slates are at least the same area again. I'm moving before they need done enmasse.
A big country house nearby had a roof done. Quoted £600k cost £960k was leaking within 6 months roofer suddenly stopped trading, for a few months then a slightly different company appeared.i know who in Scottish borders won't be looking at my roof.
We had a similar dilemma in 2020. Leaky roof which could have been patched but ended up going all in with a new roof, pointing on the end wall, three new Velux windows and top notch slates which should last 100 years. That was £26k on a large 1906 semi. Cleared out the savings but the house is now dry, a lot warmer and something we don’t have to think about in my lifetime.
My mum got her bog standard 1970s 3 bed house re done about 2 years ago after one of the storms. About 12k iirc for what the-muffin-man described above.
I had to do a roof on a rental my brother in law moved into 2 years ago.
end terrace with hipped end and it cost £12500 for materials and labour with my free labour. Not easy or small but just fake slate.
Material prices at least doubled from pre Covid and labour now at least 80% more.
that’s the south west
Oh and check if price includes gutters. Mum got stung for an extra £££s as apparently it wasn’t included in the price
Our poor neighbours had to pay twice for their cottage doing. The first firm did a bad job then went bust on them. I think they ended up with a £35,000 roof on a small cottage!
We paid £3500 for a mid terrace about 10 years ago. On the day they turned up they said that they couldn't find the right slates (we were away on holiday) so we ended up using the good slates on the front and going tile on the rear. Not a huge problem as its not in the best area so future value wasn't impacted.
We paid more like £5,500 for a full roof in stone around the same time.
The house we now live was partially chosen because the roof had already been done. As will my next house but hopefully with solar installed...
These days, while I feel your quote is excessive, I think thats just the going rate.
I was once told that the cost of the scaffolding is usually enough to pay for the gear in the first job, anyone know if this is true?
I was once told that the cost of the scaffolding is usually enough to pay for the gear in the first job, anyone know if this is true?
I was also told this by a neighbour who's a builder. He was thinking of getting his roof re-membraned (and tiles) and had found one of his suppliers who was considering doing it without scaffold. I forget the figures we were talking about, but the difference was £significant. Nearly halved IIRC.
My first house was described by the survey as being due a new roof, we sold it about 20y later and it was still due a new roof.
Same, it was flagged as an issue on the place I'm in now. "Roof in average to poor condition, tiles past end of expected lifespan" nearly 20 years later, they are still average to poor.
Got a quote a couple of years ago, about £20-22000 to have the whole thing stripped back (the structure is all spot on) and redone with the same style of tile. £25000 with solar tiles or £30 ish to get panels over, £35000 to have a battery added as well.
Quotes have all gone up ~40% since then, so i'm hoping for a few more years out of the existing roof!
@mert yeah I would think there's a lot of life left in the roof overall... it's only really a consideration redoing it because there's so many leaks and that job itself is quite big. Plus the scaffold's up already.
Roofer implied it cost somewhere around £2.5k for a largish scaffold (2 sides of an end of terrace plus the outrigger, plus an extra lump on top to reach the very high chimneys on the ridge)
Haha……. No!
Pls clarify?
@mert, my view is if it's not actually leaking too much, it's probably best just to leave it. Our old house had 100-year-old tiles stuck on to battens with cement, which was perishing and covering the loft space in a fine dust. You could see daylight though it but amazingly it didn't seem to leak (except a touch at one corner, we suspected a design problem with insufficient overhang).
Our current roof did have a leak right at the ridge which dribbled down an electrical cable into the lights, we got a finial repaired and a bit of rotten beam replaced, cost 1500 quid. It's 150 years old, we get some small dribbles in when the wind blows the wrong way, they seem to come and go a bit randomly. Basically every old house here is much the same as far as I can tell, you patch it up as necessary and it keeps on going.
