Quote for Pointing of Roof Ridge Tiles

Leodogger

We have a few ridge tiles on our bungalow roof that need pointing, can anyone tell me what the going rate is please ? Should I expect to pay by the hour or half day or what ?

I_have_spoken

£150 .

benson1980

I got two quotes from roofers for ours (gable end, wall is probably 9-10m long?). One £600 and one for £400. Took the latter obviously, and this was two people who did it in one day (albeit it didn't look overly strenuous for them).

Incidentally this was for removal of ridge tiles, securing undercloak and then setting them in the mortar. So this was to redo the full length

macman

No, get a fixed quote for the job required. Price will depend on access, and equipment needed to get up there. The actual pointing is the easy bit, taking a few minutes.

Leodogger

benson1980 wrote: »

I got two quotes from roofers for ours (gable end, wall is probably 9-10m long?). One £600 and one for £400. Took the latter obviously, and this was two people who did it in one day (albeit it didn't look overly strenuous for them).

Incidentally this was for removal of ridge tiles, securing undercloak and then setting them in the mortar. So this was to redo the full length

We only have two or three roof tiles to be poitned and not replaced so was thinking that it would not be much to do workwise or materials wise, or time wise as access is dead simple from the front of the bungalow.

Leodogger

macman wrote: »

No, get a fixed quote for the job required. Price will depend on access, and equipment needed to get up there. The actual pointing is the easy bit, taking a few minutes.

My husband thinks it is not worth much more than £50 as it is only a couple or 3 tiles that need pointing and access is dead simple from the front of our bungalow so not complicated but we will see. I have asked one roofer for a quote and am waiting to see but just wondered if the price charged was by the hour which I would expect to pay for any tradesman !

macman

I repeat, ask for a fixed quote. The quote is of course based on the time and materials needed, but if you ask to pay on a hourly basis then you are effectively signing a blank cheque for any tradesman-I don't ever recall paying by the hour for such work.
Access you may think is 'dead easy', but don' forget that the work required is about 25 feet up and getting to the ridge is not always straightforward: for example on some sites a tower might be needed. I would double that price-would your husband be prepared to come out, put ladders up, get on the roof, do the work and dismantle it all for £50? It's going to be maybe a 2 hour job in total including travel and set up.

Leodogger

macman wrote: »

I repeat, ask for a fixed quote. The quote is of course based on the time and materials needed, but if you ask to pay on a hourly basis then you are effectively signing a blank cheque for any tradesman-I don't ever recall paying by the hour for such work.
Access you may think is 'dead easy', but don' forget that the work required is about 25 feet up and getting to the ridge is not always straightforward: for example on some sites a tower might be needed. I would double that price-would your husband be prepared to come out, put ladders up, get on the roof, do the work and dismantle it all for £50? It's going to be maybe a 2 hour job in total including travel and set up.

As we are pensioners £50 is a lot of money to us ! Actually as we live in a small bungalow access from the front is dead easy, my husband wanted to do it himself but we sold our ladders when we moved from our house thinking we would not need them and we didn't really want to buy a set just for this one off job. As for the distance up the front, it is about 9ft to the guttering and then he has to put a separate ladder across the roof tiles to the ridge straight across in a straight line. I wouldn't have thought it a complicated job.

xyz123

JWhite wrote: »

As we are pensioners £50 is a lot of money to us ! Actually as we live in a small bungalow access from the front is dead easy, my husband wanted to do it himself but we sold our ladders when we moved from our house thinking we would not need them and we didn't really want to buy a set just for this one off job. As for the distance up the front, it is about 9ft to the guttering and then he has to put a separate ladder across the roof tiles to the ridge straight across in a straight line. I wouldn't have thought it a complicated job.

Nothing stopping you from doing what you think is right whether its hourly or fixed. with fixed there is no risk of the trandesman/woman wasting their time. why dont you call couple of roofers. if it really is a small job, they probably wont offer you a choice of hourly rate!

mvteng

macman wrote: »

I repeat, ask for a fixed quote. The quote is of course based on the time and materials needed, but if you ask to pay on a hourly basis then you are effectively signing a blank cheque for any tradesman-I don't ever recall paying by the hour for such work.
Access you may think is 'dead easy', but don' forget that the work required is about 25 feet up and getting to the ridge is not always straightforward: for example on some sites a tower might be needed. I would double that price-would your husband be prepared to come out, put ladders up, get on the roof, do the work and dismantle it all for £50? It's going to be maybe a 2 hour job in total including travel and set up.

We paid £40 this year for a virtually identical job. Pointing had come out from a couple of roof tiles on our bungalow.

Our local friendly roofer came out, had a look, got his ladders out, & had the job done in 20 minutes.

Keep a look out for any roofers working locally who may be able to help you out in a lunch hour

Leodogger

Well we called a builder in who was on Rated.com and he charged us £200, he said his usual charge would be £275 but as he had 1/2 day spare today and couldn't do it after today for a few weeks and we needed it doing before we went on holiday in 10 days time, we had it done. I did ask him why it was so much but he said after inspecting the roof, the ridge tiles were all loose and if he just "touched up" the couple where we noticed the mortar had come out, it would be worse than not doing it at all, plus he had his reputation to think about. He didn't want people walking by to see him pointing a couple of ridge tiles only to see the loose ones blow off or something and think it was the incompetence of the roofer we had.

He did the job with his mate and it took them 2 hrs between them, for that he took all the ridge tiles off, scraped out the rubbish from underneath, re-seated them in cement and replaced a broken tile behind our chimney which they matched as close as possible to the colour tiles on the roof (our previous owners had a red acrylic finish put on) which obviously would have looked strange with a different colour tile and too much mortar coming out from underneath the edges of the ridge tiles so they made it as neat as possible, but they did a good job and you can't see hardly any gobs of mortar. They pointed 14 ridge tiles and replaced one, so with materials and 2 hrs work, £200.

I'm hoping we were not ripped off !