How much to reroof a house?

[dreed2]

In our town in Massachusetts, you can only have two layers of shingles. After that, you need to remove the old layers before installing a new roof. We, unfortunately, already had two layers, so they had to come off before the new rood was installed. We have a small house that is ~800 square feet and an enclosed porch. Darned roof was leaking, so it had to be done. Good luck with your estimate!

[h linamen]

Just got an estimate for a 1900 SF house, but with 3 car garage and roofed over patio the total SF was a little over 3000SF. $10,200 to remove shingles and start with new paper... 30 year architectural shingles. I had been anticipating about $7,000 and it came in $10,200. When I questioned this reputable contractor he said these shingles were $39 per square five years ago and are now $86.

[lafinfil]

Just another quick observation for you about shingle types - traditional 3 tabs vs architectural/dimensional shingle.
This was pointed out to me by my friend that helped me roof mine (he's a contractor)

The cost of using a dimensional may seem a lot higher at first but there is far less waste then with three tabs.
This is especially true if you have a hipped roof. The dimensional have a solid layer back and more
randomness in the pattern so you can end up using nearly all of it so you will buy less.

When we did my moms house (a hipped roof) with three tab shingles we threw away a lot of cut offs because
they would not fit the pattern. When we did my house (hipped roof) we used dimensional (the same OC's that
Grateful11 posted) and had nearly no cut offs left. Very material efficient so I got a better roof for
about the same money.

[Grateful11]

h linamen wrote:
Just got an estimate for a 1900 SF house, but with 3 car garage and roofed over patio the total SF was a
little over 3000SF. $10,200 to remove shingles and start with new paper... 30 year architectural shingles.
I had been anticipating about $7,000 and it came in $10,200. When I questioned this reputable contractor
he said these shingles were $39 per square five years ago and are now $86.

If my memory serves me correct that's about right, $25 to $30/bundle it takes three bundles to make a
square. They went up with the price of crude when it when it hit a peak a few years ago and naturally they
never dropped the price back down. For many years it was nothing to see shingles for $10-12/bundle.
Sorta like motor oil I paid $1/qt. for most brands of Dino oil for 25 years but not anymore.

[lafinfil]

Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=h linamen]
Just got an estimate for a 1900 SF house, but with 3 car garage and roofed over patio the total SF was a
little over 3000SF. $10,200 to remove shingles and start with new paper... 30 year architectural shingles.
I had been anticipating about $7,000 and it came in $10,200. When I questioned this reputable contractor
he said these shingles were $39 per square five years ago and are now $86.

If my memory serves me correct that's about right, $25 to $30/bundle it takes three bundles to make a
square. They went up with the price of crude when it when it hit a peak a few years ago and naturally they
never dropped the price back down. For many years it was nothing to see shingles for $10-12/bundle.
Sorta like motor oil I paid $1/qt. for most brands of Dino oil for 25 years but not anymore.
The top end 40 year shingles are also 4 bundles to the square instead of 3 bundles.
FWIW I paid about $30 a bundle on sale at Menards. It's also hard to go by square footage
of the house because it is dependent on roof type (hip, gable, pitch, overhang size, etc ...)
Two houses of the same square footage can vary greatly on number of squares on the roof.

[Grateful11]

lafinfil wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
[quote=h linamen]
Just got an estimate for a 1900 SF house, but with 3 car garage and roofed over patio the total SF was a
little over 3000SF. $10,200 to remove shingles and start with new paper... 30 year architectural shingles.
I had been anticipating about $7,000 and it came in $10,200. When I questioned this reputable contractor
he said these shingles were $39 per square five years ago and are now $86.

If my memory serves me correct that's about right, $25 to $30/bundle it takes three bundles to make a
square. They went up with the price of crude when it when it hit a peak a few years ago and naturally they
never dropped the price back down. For many years it was nothing to see shingles for $10-12/bundle.
Sorta like motor oil I paid $1/qt. for most brands of Dino oil for 25 years but not anymore.
The top end 40 year shingles are also 4 bundles to the square instead of 3 bundles.
FWIW I paid about $30 a bundle on sale at Menards. It's also hard to go by square footage
of the house because it is dependent on roof type (hip, gable, pitch, overhang size, etc ...)
Two houses of the same square footage can vary greatly on number of squares on the roof.
I had the guy price 40 year shingles and decided against them. If I can get 30 out mine I'll be close to 80
if I live that long. You're right about the sq. footage thing, we've got way more hips and valleys than I
care for, out roofer rolled out a thin rubber membrane in our valleys in addition to the tar paper. I'll try
to snap a photo of ours today.

[sunfalcon]

We replaced our roof two years ago. Ripped off two layers and then installed new paper, ridge vent, ice guard, etc, with owens corning 30 yr shingles for $6500. 2000 square foot two story house - low pitch, easy roof.

Nothing like bending over and putting on a new roof!

[AllGold]

I'm guessing no or it already would have been mentioned, but has anyone gotten a metal roof?

Erie Construction advertises them all the time here but I don't know anyone who has one and don't even have a ballpark on how much more it would cost.