On 5/16/2011 11:52 AM, Red Green wrote:
wrote in
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On May 16, 11:08 am, wrote:
On May 16, 8:59 am, Home wrote:



Unless you multi-posted your question to alt.home.repair (which
would b
e
bad because multi-posting is bad) I'm going to cross-post this to
alt.home.repair because the group you posted this to
(misc.consumers.house) gets very little traffic.

pontiusj wrote:
I got a bid to put in a new roof, and it included removal of
2 layers of shingles.

Was it your decision to not remove the original shingles when the
job was done the last time?

They got to work, and it turns out there were three layers of
shingles. We got the bill, and they now want to charge us an
extra $1100 for the removal of the third layer (32 square
additional tear off at $35/square)

Is this normal? Is it really so much more work than 2 layers?

It's bad enough to shingle over the existing roof, but to do it
twice i
s
absolutely nuts.

Based on a typical 3-bundle per square, and a weight of 80 lbs per
bundle, you've got a weight of about 2500 lbs per layer.

That means there is 5000 lbs of extra weight on your roof (more
than a full-size pickup truck).

I'd say that yes, if the roofers were going to remove your top
layer an
d
what they though was the bottom layer as part of the original
quote, an
d
now they want to charge you an extra $1000 to remove a third layer,
the
n
that's not really out of line.

Several things:
- how come the roofer didn't know? You can see an additional layer
from the edge of the roof, and a roofer can spot that from the
ground. - what does the contract say?

Chuckle. When I had this place reroofed, I insisted on a full tearoff,
and ran off the companies that wanted me to overlay with those locking
barn shingles. Anyway, when the company I hired stripped the roof, they
found a partial 2nd layer on the front side- previous roofing crew had
stripped in five feet from the edges, and decided that was close enough.
No visible 2nd layer at edges.

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