"Robert Laws" wrote in message
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I hesitate to ask this slightly off-topic question, but I want to make
an offer on a house for Monday and I need to estimate roughly the cost
of some major reroofing work. It is in Cambridge.

The house is a typical Victorian terraced-style house but it is in
fact a single detached one. It has an obvious problem: The two
gable ends (from top floor ceiling level) are leaning over, both the
same way (i.e. one leaning in in and one leaning out). I estimatre the
maximum lean to be about 75mm. One end includes a chimney (leaning
in). The roof trusses must be all leaning over inside there. The roof
is also very uneven.

At a rough guess there is about 40 sq metre horizontal area under the
roof. The gable ends are about 8 metres wide and 2 metres high and
the chimney projects about 1.5 metres above the apex (it looks an
unusually high chimery. The roof is slate. It was built in about
1900 I think.

You could erect scaffolding to gain access to the gables

Can anyone give me any kind of guess as to what it would cost to
rebuild the gable ends and replace the roof timbers etc.

Thank you for your help folks. I need to put my offer in before 9 am
Monday, so I don't have time to ask a builders.

Any thoughts or comments would also be welcome.

Robert
Depends on how much material can be re used or if all new bricks and slates
have to be used. At a guess, New roof £3000, re build gables £2000, new
timber roof structure £3000, scaffolding £700, wastes skips £600. Total
£9000 to £10,000