DL wrote:

Just got three estimates for a tear-off roof job ranging from $8,000 to
$13,500. I live in the suburb of Detroit and the estimates are for
replacing existing 1 layer of shingles by new 30 yr. shingles. Roof
area is 3,200 square ft. with a 8/12 pitch. About 1/2 of the roof area
is 2 stories high, the rest is one story. I checked the price for the
30 yr. GAF shingles at Home Depot about $40 a square. So I estimate the
material cost to be around $1,500. Therefore much of the cost is in the
labor. Is the total cost of $250 to $425 per square reasonable around
my area ? Can someone with experience tell me what is a fair price to
pay ? I am really surprised about the big difference between the high
and the low bids. As far as I can tell the proposals are identical
except for the price.
if you need a new roof due to hail damage or storm damage.. wait until
the fly by night people leave town and then get a local company... even
local companies use these fly by night guys when they have too much work
to sub out.... i got stuck like this about four years ago after a hail
storm... you could not get a company to come out to give you a bid..
well then finally did and it was a local company been in business a long
time with a full size page in the yellow pages.. he subed out to some
guys who look like they came from tobacco road... new roof looked worse
than the old roof.. it took a threat of going to civil court with the
owner of the company to get him to have some other employees to come out
and fix the mess these guys made.. wish i would have waited and got some
local small company's name from the neighbors...... the single story
place i got is 2600 sq. feet and cost about $5400.... if you have a two
story the price goes up.. if you have a high pitch to the roof the price
goes up... if you have alot of valleys and ridges the price goes up....