How much does a new roof cost?

Scotchnan

Old tiles can be caefully removed and sold.
They did it when they eplaced council roofs round here.

CustardEmma

My advice would be to speak to a number of local based roofing contractors and ask them to come and visit your property for a quote and proof of previous work completed, then spend some time reviewing their quotes and make a decision based on both price and the companies experience.

You cannot simply make a decision based on one phone call to one company unless you have already received a referal for previous business they have been involved in.

I recently had some roof repairs completed after the storms we have had and I found my local roofer - who I had already received recommendations from his past customers by searching their company name and the appeared on this website myredlandroof.co.uk. This may be useful for people looking for comparison quotes and also a list of roofers in their local area. Also using a company listed on here left me in good faith that the work would be of high quality as they are all quality assured.

GDB2222

Hmmm. Spam?

JRCD

Joyful wrote: »

I eventually had my roof replaced for £10,000 inc Vat. This was for a 3 bed semi using half newer tiles and half from the existing roof. This was also insured for 10 years. This was the best deal I was able to get in Edinburgh.

Just been quoted double that for a slate roof in Edinburgh - wondered who you used...

JRCD

lilyholland wrote: »

What a sad collection of posts! I am a (female) builder. The following information is accurate for London and represents the real cost of doing a slate roof. Please note that what you are looking at is the costing for a large detached house with an old slate roof measuring approximately 120 square metres with a little turret on the front side and a small extension to the back. I am going to break down the costs so that you can see what is involved in a proper job! None of the following costs include VAT or any profit margin for us - the builders!
Scaffolding and protection erected to stop water coming in once the roof is off £3400
Skips, permits, and removing waste in rubble bags £580
Battens: £280
Slates (Spanish slate is about half the cost of Welsh and is perfectly adequate for look and performance) £2,600
Breathable roofing membrane: £150
Nails, screws, silicon etc (fixings): £200
Labour £3120
Total: £10330
Given we don't do this for charity and have to cover overheads as well as supervision of the workmen etc, you should probably add a further £2500 to this and then VAT at 20%. (£15396)
Note: other forms of roofing may be cheaper, Spanish slate looks great. If I do 'mates rates' then I work for free. Not sure how I make a living at this, but hey, perhaps you will enlighten me!!!

Lead flashing to prevent leakage around chimneys etc £1200

Interesting and useful, but while materials get broken down to less than £200 chunks we get two big items with no break down - the bane of all estimates

Labour = £3120 but how many workers, and for how long?
Supervision, overheads and profit = £2500 but how much for each and what is involved in supervising (time, people)?

real1314

JRCD wrote: »

Just been quoted double that for a slate roof in Edinburgh - wondered who you used...

They posted that in Feb 2008. I doubt it's still appropriate.

You could try PM'ing the poster. they might still be using the site.

:cool:

real1314

JRCD wrote: »

Interesting and useful, but while materials get broken down to less than £200 chunks we get two big items with no break down - the bane of all estimates

Labour = £3120 but how many workers, and for how long?
Supervision, overheads and profit = £2500 but how much for each and what is involved in supervising (time, people)?

It's 6 months old, a bit late to query it.

But...
Note that they say there's no "profit", but there is £3k of labour charges. Does this builder want paying to "arrange" the work or wouldn't they be part of the labour charge?
:cool:

Yorkie1

Spam reported (3 posts from newbie nicochess, all promoting the same website).

Bluemerl

Hi Everyone.
My friend and I are carpenters and do a lot of roofs to houses garages etc, including new fascia boards and soffits in PVC.

We have just completed a roof on a 3 bedroom semi using the customers old tiles and the cost was, £2500, which included 100 reclaimed tiles to replace any damaged ones, and this left him with 22 spares. In addition to this we took down a chimney which was no longer in use, and used new felt and batten's this included all materials used, the only thing extra was the scaffolding which the customer paid direct at a cost of £320.

Hope this helps
Email me if you have any questions, or require any work doing.
pgh3@btinternet.com

johnnyredgate

presumably people who had a roof with asbestos tiles also had removal and licensed disposal of the old asbestos tiles? Prices seem very reasonably. We have a roof tiled with asbestos fake slates that I would like to replace at some point but had thought that the disposal costs for the asbestos tiles would be astronomical.