Anyone Priced Roofing Shingles Lately?

Had An Estimate On roof For House, He Is Saying $110.00 Square? Last I Bought Was $24.00 A Square. want to Do It Myself, Don"t Know if i can anymore. Need a 14 Year old boy who wants to work to help. Ha!

30 yr shingles at menards I thought were only like 75-80 a square. Four years ago I paid 40 a square.

last shingles i bought was 3 years ago.13 dollars a bundle or 39 dollars a square,you can go up to 65 dollars

I think it's common now for contractors, roofers, etc. to charge exhorbatant prices, period.
There seems to be less people around as time goes on, that are willing to do hard work and get dirty. Subsequently, such work is bringing a premium.

In your case, I don't know. Much depends if your roof has to be stripped, how many layers it has on it already, if it needs new sheathing, etc.

My son needed a roof on my old farm house that he now owns. I advised him to go with steel. He had a guy give him an estimate of a little over $12,000. I went over and measured it and the materials-cost came to $2800. Two guys could of easily done the job in four days. Seems that comes to approx. 64 man-hours - and amounts to $143 per hour - per man. Pretty good pay. Maybe I need to get back in the business.
He got two other esimates, and both were around the same - including one from Home Depot that was the highest. I finally went over and helped him do it. Took us a couple of weeks, on and off since we couldn't spend full days on it.

When I was in the business, the highest contractors usually bid jobs as 1/3, 1/3, 1/3. Basically, 1/3 cost of materials, 1/3 labor, and 1/3 gravy. Even with that - a $2800 materials-job ought to cost $8400, not $12,000.

I"m in the contracting buisness 30yr shingles are $72 per square plus felt labor ect

stewart

That was just the shingles, taking off old ones was $1800, Disposal was $350, for 37 square, about $4000 labor. I think this is really high, i always did everything myself, but i was not 66 and crippled up then. the only things i have ever hired done was a furnace and siding installed in the 36 years i have lived here, i guess i had a pole building put up. time to get another estimate. local lumber yard quoted me $85 a square a couple months ago. Certenteed 30 yr.

hire an illegal immigrant

Built a polebarn a few years back, used nice shingles, 25 year guarantee. Talking to a roofing contractor, says that company closed down, started up with a new name, NO GUARANTEE on my shingles. Says they do this every so often to get out from under the guarantee thing.

last roof i did myself, i used the archetectural shingles ( used to call em timberline) real easy to install, shingles are random patterns, kinda look like a shake roof. a lot easier than the 3 tab or tie-downs. i cant remember how much a square they were, but not much more than the good 3 tabs.

I just built a small barn, and the steel roof was pretty close to shingles. And it goes up a lot faster. My neighbor put a new roof on a 32 x 60 building, steel roof. He was 82 at the time.

CRC 35 year shingles at menards for about 55-60 a square easier than 3 tab to lay and they already have a line snapped on them

Timberline at Menards went from ~15/sq to 22/sq in a week period in august! Oh well they are nice shingles. JimN

Absolutely! You'll be amazed how they show up on time, appreciate the job, and work their a@# off. That's what I did when I redid my house. The three of them stripped it in like three hours!

I just put the Owens Corning Dimension architectual shingles on my pole barn last summer and they cost about $16 dollars a bundle. So I paid about $48 dollars a square. They were the very heavy dimensional ones rated for like 115 mph wind. Good luck. This was at Carter Lumber in Michigan.

I also bought mine from Carter lumber in Caro Michigan. They actually delivered to my site as Home Depot would not even attempt to go down my driveway and had ploped $4800 in my neighbors yard. Hats off to Carter lumber for great service!

Right now, according to 'the lady accross the room' (she's an adjuster and writing up roof claims now), insurance is paying 140.00-160.00 per square materials, labor, and clean up on a total loss roof with no structural damage depending on the adjuster and the county.

Our material cost for galvalume steel this spring on this house was 85.00 a square. 30 squares, including materials, labor, and furring strips, for metal over shingles was 4400.

Last nov shingles were 15.00 per bundle this aug they cost 20.00.Same dealer same brand of shingle.