New roof or re bed New ridge tiles

rubycoco

Hi we have been quoted £4300 to have new ridge tiles on my 3 bed semi detached house. That includes scaffolding and replacing any broken tiles etc. Is this a fair price I live in the North West? Can't seem to find a online price estimate for a new roof. If any one has had a new roof recently would you mind sharing the price thanks in advance.

DougMLancs

We’re in Lancaster and just had the roof completely redone (battens, felt, soffits, gutters, etc) on our 3 bed semi. It was £11500 inc VAT but that included also redoing the small porch roof, taking out the chimney, bringing out the eaves on the gable end to allow for future external wall insulation and scaffolding for the gable end. At a guess if it’d been just the main roof it would have been around £9.5-10k inc VAT

grumbler

rubycoco said:

Hi we have been quoted £4300 to have new ridge tiles on my 3 bed semi detached house. That includes scaffolding and replacing any broken tiles etc. Is this a fair price I live in the North West? Can't seem to find a online price estimate for a new roof.

IMO, it's a day work for two people that can be done with a roof ladder without scaffolding. Maybe day and a half.

Tucosalamanca

grumbler said:

rubycoco said:

Hi we have been quoted £4300 to have new ridge tiles on my 3 bed semi detached house. That includes scaffolding and replacing any broken tiles etc. Is this a fair price I live in the North West? Can't seem to find a online price estimate for a new roof.

IMO, it's a day work for two people that can be done with a roof ladder without scaffolding. Maybe day and a half.

Very unlikely to comply with working at height regs. How would you work on the gable end for example?

grumbler

Tucosalamanca said:

grumbler said:

rubycoco said:

Hi we have been quoted £4300 to have new ridge tiles on my 3 bed semi detached house. That includes scaffolding and replacing any broken tiles etc. Is this a fair price I live in the North West? Can't seem to find a online price estimate for a new roof.

IMO, it's a day work for two people that can be done with a roof ladder without scaffolding. Maybe day and a half.

Very unlikely to comply with working at height regs. How would you work on the gable end for example?

  Are you saying that roofers doing small repairs without scaffolding don't comply with some 'regs'? The only question here is where the boundary lies between 'small' and 'big'.

Not all roofs have gable ends. Many have chimneys that you can use for fixing safety gear to, and there are other means of working safely without scaffolding.

The typical problem here is that roofing companies/people have vested interest in scaffolding because of getting some sort of commission from  scaffolding companies. Also this makes the whole job looking bigger than it actually is.

FreeBear

grumbler said:

Tucosalamanca said:

grumbler said:

rubycoco said:

Hi we have been quoted £4300 to have new ridge tiles on my 3 bed semi detached house. That includes scaffolding and replacing any broken tiles etc. Is this a fair price I live in the North West? Can't seem to find a online price estimate for a new roof.

IMO, it's a day work for two people that can be done with a roof ladder without scaffolding. Maybe day and a half.

Very unlikely to comply with working at height regs. How would you work on the gable end for example?

  Are you saying that roofers doing small repairs without scaffolding don't comply with some 'regs'? The only question here is where the boundary lies between 'small' and 'big'.

A couple of ridge tiles could be done reasonably safely from ladders. Anything on a hip, or more than just two or three ridge tiles, scaffolding would be much safer. If there is a conservatory or pitched roof extension below, scaffolding will help to prevent damage.

Makes sense to plan other works that need doing whilst scaffolding is up. If there is any painting that needs doing on the upper half of the house, pay a little extra for a "second lift". Also use the opportunity to clean out the gutters and check the condition.

Had my roof stripped last year. New felt, battens, fascia/soffits, and guttering, £7500. That included the cost of a second lift on the scaffolding so that I could paint the outside.

ThisIsWeird

Your quote seems quite high, Ruby. How many quotes have you had? And have you asked them all for two - ridge tiles/missing slates only, and complete roof?

stuart45

A rough rule of thumb for working on a roof with ladders is that a small job which takes half an hour or less is OK. 

Chickereeeee

I have had a couple of quotes/estimates in the past 6 months or so, for my 4 bed detached house.
New roof £35-50k, depending on tiles/slates/natural/man-made etc

Ridge and hip tiles (5 hips), all re-done using a dry ridge system (a couple of hips are loose, but I also want to improve loft ventilation), replace any tiles that break - £2,500 - £3,500.

grumbler

stuart45 said:

A rough rule of thumb for working on a roof with ladders is that a small job which takes half an hour or less is OK. 

What exactly is this rule based upon? If you can do two-three ridge tiles in an hour, why can't you do the whole ridge in 8 hours?

EssexExile

grumbler said:

stuart45 said:

A rough rule of thumb for working on a roof with ladders is that a small job which takes half an hour or less is OK. 

What exactly is this rule based upon? If you can do two-three ridge tiles in an hour, why can't you do the whole ridge in 8 hours?

I've always assumed that the use or not of scaffolding is determined by whether greater risk is involved (for the scaffolders) in putting up the scaffolding than is saved (for the roofers) by having the scaffolding. We had all our hips and ridges rebedded from one scaffold tower and several ladders.