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Date: Jan 21, 2006

Repair costs (totally OT)

Date: Jan 21, 2006

LVN, given the size of her house, choice of architectural shingles, and the inclusion of tear and haul off, etc., I would say she did okay given the amount you posted.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

This is reasonable given the total job & materials used.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

Ball park for that job is 150-200 a square. My wife really haggled and got it down to about 7,000 (a little over 160 per square). We used a company out of TX. But if the work is good and she is happy, the price is reasonable.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

Mitch wrote:

Ball park for that job is 150-200 a square. My wife really haggled and got it down to about 7,000 (a little over 160 per square). We used a company out of TX. But if the work is good and she is happy, the price is reasonable.

I agree with this -- I just got two estimates on my house which is 2300 square feet and they are pretty much in line with this.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

LVN,

Just for future reference (in case you have this type of work done again), roofing costs need to be quoted by the square, with a square being 100 square feet. You probably knew that, but if you know how many squares they did, it makes answering your question easier.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

LVN...seems pretty much in line with our roof.... its 'pensive.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

Thanks all, for the responses and a couple of emails I got as well. I knew this price was probably about right, but it'll help to tell my mom "that's what they all are costing." I guess that's the middle-aged equivalent of "but everybody else gets to . . " !

As long as we're on this topic, I learned another valuable lesson when my house was being repaired, or relearned something I knew. You have to spell out every little detail, or you too will have woodwork painted with flat latex. (I had enough sense to buy the wall paint myself, but forgot the woodwork.) By the time this is all over, we will have a bunch of people around here who know more about renovation than they'd ever hoped to.

Date: Jan 21, 2006

It used to be virtually impossible to get anyone to do the work during deer season. That's what my builder told me

Date: Jan 21, 2006

Deerly Beloved wrote:

It used to be virtually impossible to get anyone to do the work during deer season. That's what my builder told me

True-- I remember when the new TAD got closed in and they started working on the dry wall. The wall got up quickly -- and then suddenly deer season hit and the pace dropped to a crawl when there were exactly two poor guys left to tape this 35,000 square foot building with a two story atrium all by themselves . . . .

Date: Jan 22, 2006

just as info, the quicker you had repairs on your home the cheaper. my home is 2 story was a 9/12 pitch room (they say this is why the "steep" charge) with arch shingles, tear off clean up, etc

i paid $105 per sq, roofer told me at the time as soon as insurance settlements started coming in the cost would be much higher and he was correct. i had my roof replaced within 2 weeks of the storm. pure dumb luck i might add, i opened the yellow pages called the first number and the guy said he could start the next day.....

it took about 2 months to get my insurance settlement but i was pleased with my roof.