OT:Need a new roof on my house, recommendation.., to replace my wood shingles??? Options

[Mueller]

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)

[anthony]

Mike, I had my roof done 1.5 years ago with the standard 30 year architectural composite shingles by these guys:

http://www.crownridgeroofing.com/

They did a great job IMO, and the bid seemed very reasonable.


That said, I think I'd do it myself if I had the time and was doing it again. Why, you ask? Because after I saw them do it I thought, shit, I could have done that. Like you, I thought I could have never bought all that stuff at home depot and brought it up to the roof on a ladder. I was even unemployed at the time!

Here's how they made it easy:

They hired a tear off subcontractor. A dump truck with seven guys and shovels showed up and the old roof was gone and hauled away in less than 2 hours.

They rolled out the tar paper in about 30 minutes.

Then, the roofing supply company truck with elevated conveyor belt shows up. All the materials were delivered to the top of the roof. Very little lifting!

One guy pounded nails for 1.5 days. Another guy helped a little and was only around for maybe a half a day. The whole job took two days.

They also hired a gutter subcontractor.

I priced the materials at home depot and based on what I think they paid for the tear-off I'm guessing that they made about $3K for their two days of labor. Not bad money!