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| Mueller |
 Apr 28 2004, 11:30 AM
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914 Freak!  Group: Members Posts: 17,155 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None 
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The wood shingles are just about shot on our 16 year old house, the sun in Antioch cooks them to death. I am just now doing the research for replacment materials.
As always, cost is an issue, but I don't think I want to tackle the entire job myself (2 story house, gravity hurts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ) Anyone on the BBS that is local and is interested in bidding on it? If so, can we get a discount for cash???? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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| dgw |
Apr 29 2004, 10:55 PM
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Dennis Winter Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Santa Cruz Mountains Member No.: 106 Region Association: Northern California |
We replaced wood shingles with asphalt. We were very serious at one point going with the cement "looks like wood" shingles, but:
1-they cost about 4 times as much 2-they are a LOT heaver. You need to know if the house can support them. What we got is 40 year class A fire rated. I don't know if either of these is good or not, but it beats the hell out of wood. Where I live, we used to sweat bullets in the late summer when the wind came up. Images of the Oakland fire flashed through our minds. On the other hand, if that happened, our roof could be made of gasoline and the result would probably be the same. One other thing, get yourself a strong magnet. You have never seen so many nails. Even though they clean up the site, they don't. |
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Mueller OT:Need a new roof on my house, recommendation.. Apr 28 2004, 11:30 AM
seanery chunger can do it, he doe's everything! :... Apr 28 2004, 11:34 AM Mark Henry How long do you plan on keeping the house?
In a c... Apr 28 2004, 12:07 PM Rog914 Put a metal roof on. It may cost you a hair more t... Apr 28 2004, 01:03 PM Bruce Allert :agree:
That's what we did on our place at th... Apr 28 2004, 01:42 PM PatW Ceramic.. :D Apr 28 2004, 02:02 PM GWN7 If your planning on staying in the house, go with ... Apr 28 2004, 02:04 PM dmenche914 having fought a wild fire from the roof of several... Apr 28 2004, 02:09 PM chunger If you decide to do it yourself, I'll help.
(... Apr 28 2004, 03:39 PM Mueller I just did 200sqft of asphalt for my workshop roof... Apr 28 2004, 03:44 PM Rgreen914 You may not have too many options in replacement m... Apr 28 2004, 03:54 PM chunger You do know about rooftop delivery, right?
Might ... Apr 28 2004, 03:58 PM boxstr Any concerns as far as CC&Rs and a HOA??
CCLINPUD Apr 28 2004, 05:01 PM GWN7 With metal, the pieces are cut to fit your roof. S... Apr 28 2004, 05:19 PM Mueller When I think of metal roof, all I vision is shack ... Apr 28 2004, 05:41 PM Kargeek I just went through this with my in-laws house and... Apr 28 2004, 05:51 PM GWN7 Check out this....Everlast roofing
Or these...Lia... Apr 28 2004, 06:08 PM TimT Im thinking of getting the roof on my house in Ver... Apr 28 2004, 06:14 PM Jeff Bowlsby Mike all roofing materials have +++ and ---, none ... Apr 28 2004, 08:06 PM tat2dphreak my dad's owned his own roofing company for ~30... Apr 28 2004, 08:17 PM Rog914 There's so many different type metal roofs ava... Apr 28 2004, 09:13 PM Bleyseng Metal roofing is LOUD inside the house, you can he... Apr 28 2004, 09:13 PM GWN7 I have to replace my shingles here some time soon,... Apr 28 2004, 10:13 PM wheelo Gwn7 - Thanks for the links, I have a wood shingle... Apr 29 2004, 01:29 AM rhodyguy geoff nailed it. hehe. wait until you get the bid ... Apr 29 2004, 05:36 AM seanery I've been told by folks with newer metal roofs... Apr 29 2004, 06:58 AM GWN7 The newer metal roofs are made out of heavier gaug... Apr 29 2004, 08:08 AM Mark Henry My shop is all steel, bit noisy (not much) outside... Apr 29 2004, 11:10 AM
anthony Mike, I had my roof done 1.5 years ago with the st... Apr 30 2004, 12:22 AM |
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