"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 7/22/2013 4:41 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I don't know how the roofers are
>> in your neck of the woods but here they want cash. And we know that the
>> roof will be in excess of $10,000 because I have already gotten quotes.
>> The
>> roof is not leaking or anything like that.
>
> That's an insane price unless you have a fancy slope or lots of eaves.
> Mine was recently just over $3k. I hope you got lots of quotes.

Certainly not insane for this area. We have a Ranch style that has been
remodeled. So a much larger roof than a two story house. 1700 sq ft plus
an additional 400 sq ft back house. Plus because the roof wasn't applied
correctly, some of the three tab shingles blew off. We don't know how long
some of them were off for. The gardener is the one who noticed. So there
is damage to the wood underneath. We do know that. I got two quotes. But
I am going with neither. Neighbor just got 4 quotes and I am going with the
guy who did theirs. They are very pleased with the job and they said he had
the best price. I also have to get the treated stuff that will not grow
moss for 10 years because moss is a major problem here.

My friend just got a roof on her house and it is a little smaller than mine.
Hers is a remodel too and she was told that due to the various different
little roof pieces (I'm sure there is a different term here but I don't know
it), it was going to cost her a lot more. I'm sure that would apply to this
house too. They are similar in many ways. I believe she said that hers was
around $10,000 plus the cost of replacing the wood. In her case, the damage
was extensive. She did in fact have a leak. The problem? There was an
entire small piece of wood missing over her grandson's bedroom. She doesn't
know if the house was like this when she bought it and the previous roofers
didn't fix it or if it was there error. She did in fact have a new roof put
on somewhere around 10 years ago. She made the mistake of just hiring
someone and not checking them out. She had many, many issues with the job
they did. And of course they disappeared off the face of the earth.
Anyway... Because of the slope of the roof, instead of the water coming
right in, into B's room, it traveled downward, soaking the wood and
eventually caused a little drip in the kitchen and some massive flooding in
her room.

She has a guy living with her (adult, friend of her adult son) who works for
a roofing company but he doesn't actually do the roofing. He does other
things. He went up there and tried to find the leak but all looked good
from the top. It was only after they began pulling the shingles off that
they saw where he problem was.

For all I know, there could have been damage when we bought this house. I
do know that there was damage to the soffit in the exact place where there
is damage now. My husband and his friend repaired that, apparently not
thinking to find out why it was damaged. And I in fact found a few shingles
that blew off. Husband said they didn't matter. I appealed to his friend
who said that it did matter. They put some more shingles back on. Then
maybe 3 years ago is when we had the massive blow off. This was seen by a
neighbor who is a roofer but not licensed. He did that repair plus the last
one where a few more blew off. Turns out they stapled the roof on, which I
now know is common but they didn't do it correctly.