On Mar 8, 8:22*am, "badgolferman"
wrote:
wrote:
I have 3 quotes for a tear-off and reshingle of my roof.
The roof has one layer of existing shingles. *The shingles
are selling for $100 a square at Lowes. *Roof is 40 square.
Estimates work out to $270 to $335 a square. *Any sheathing
replacement is $50 a sheet. *Job will be #15 lb felt, ice dam
material on lower 3 ft. *Double felt on garage roof, which is
low pitch. *New ridge vent to be installed along entire peak.

It's in NJ, which is bad enough as far as prices and Im sure
Sandy is still a factor in prices. *I need to get it done, so
waiting isn't an option.

Any recent experiences with prices to share?

I'm sure this won't correlate to your details but I had my roof
repalced January 2011 and I live in SE VA.

The official sq. ft. of my ranch house is 1865, but I don't think that
includes the two car garage. *I have a long roof, but it only has two
valleys and two peaks. *Can't give you the amount of shingles used but
there was quite a bit left over which ****ed me off. *The shingles are
GAF 30 yr architectural and the felt was all new of course. *The total
cost was $7300. *There was a crew of 3-4 Mexicans there for at least 2
days ripping up the old stuff, making minor repairs, taking out the
roof fans, and installing everything else, then cleaning up all the
bushes. *They weren't goofing off either. *The contractor was a local
well known one that matched the lowest invoice I had received from
others.

Thanks for the info. The roof is on an angle, so it's going
to be larger than the sq ft of the living space. And allowing
for the garage, the total could be more like 2700 sq ft.
That would be $270 a square. Also, I see online that there
have been several price increases over the last year or
two by the shingle suppliers. And, I'm sure there is still
a Sandy premium going on. So, my lowest quote of $270
doesn' seem unreasonable.