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Urgent Roofing solutions
Edward Charette
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I was wondering whether anyone on the penny-arcade forum would be able to help me with roofing suggestions. The present roofing I have at home is quite old, somewhere around 10 years old. They are in real bad shape and its high time I get it replaced with good ones. Need suggestins on the best roofing solutions. I found few roofing designs like the custom copper roof toronto, at roof lines east inc, but they seem to be expensive. Can anyone help me with the cost estimate? The image I saw is attached. 
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I'm not sure I would do copper roofing (seems ornate rather than structural), but in general typical metal roofs last 50 years vs asphalt's 10-15.
Edit: I assume you live in the north somewhere, so snow/hail/sleet is a real possibility, I'd avoid anything but metal or asphalt shingles. Metal will add the pitter-patter/clinking of rain so you may not enjoy that. But that's something you get used to for the lifespan on it. You can also add in sound proofing to help reduce it, but it won't make too much of a difference.
double edit: looks like copper has about the same/longer lifespan as normal metal roofs, plus it gets a green patina after several years, so, up to you!
If you don't get a ton of snow, 20 is average
Ours never really lasted longer than 15, but my dad might have just been super anal about his shingles.
Copper (and way more affordably metal sheet roofing) are still way more expensive than you will likely want to spend. For a ~1700sq ft home with garage in my state they run 20k-40k for installation and thats usually not counting labor, just materials. Asphalt is usually ~7k for the cheapest shit and can go up to 18-20k for the highest quality stuff. Wood shakes and Spanish tile usually run somewhere in between metal and asphalt's range. For cold weather locations, usually you will want wood shakes or metal sheet (which get up there in price).
Keep in mind the cost is going to be dependent upon your roofing square footage, degree of slope, and complexity. A simple A frame house can be cheaper than a complicated multi-leveled roof... unless it is at a very steep! You are paying for materials and labor but ~also~ the insurance and risk mitigation for the laborers. Roofing can be pretty dangerous!
A copper roof is a crazy luxury item, you want something along the lines of these if you go metal:
It's cheaper and easier to replace if you get impact damage. A good metal roof will last probably longer than your life (a metal roof is usually guaranteed for 30-50 years and can last for twice that with only minor repairs) yet at the same time it is very, very expensive. There is a reason most non-commercial properties usually use wooden shakes (cold weather) or asphalt (usually in temperate/tropical climates). Common opinion is usually that wooden shakes hold up better to snow than asphalt but there are a wide range of opinions there. Most commercial business these days just go ahead and do metal roofing due to the cost saving of having to pay for 5 or 6 asphalt roves over the time of the property, but they usually have the money they can put down. It's a very expensive thing and usually difficult to finance unless your property is considerably valuable to begin with.
Before replacing your roof, look up local roofing companies with solid BBB ratings and get a few quotes. A good roofing company will give you a range of options as part of a free estimate, usually including:
In many cases, a good roofing company will give you a roof life span in their estimate. If they think you have another 3-4 years if you do some patching you may well do. If you own your property, after getting your repairs done it is usually worth it (regardless of roof type) to have professional roof cleaning once a year (especially with get asphalt). This should almost never be pressure-washing, instead it is a chemical treatment to kill whatever is growing on the tiles (bacteria/mold/moss is a big problem in FL). It's also an opportunity to have someone identify divots and squirrel or bird damage. Again, these are big FL problems, so I have no idea what Canada roofing issues might primarily be.
Good luck, and get lots of quotes before going in.
In FL estimated age is ~14 years, plus or minus 3. 20 would be amazing.
Yeah, you don't get 20-30 years out of a roof in Canada. You're lucky to get 15 oftentimes.
The grit goes away fast once you hit 15.
Maybe the right advice is highly location dependent? In that case OP may be better off calling some local contractors and getting some ideas/prices from them.
for the record, I live in MD and my dads roof is original to the house when he built it .... in 1978
no leaks aside from around the chimney flashing!
edit: he was the contractor though and used the best materials money could buy at the time
@Edward Charette I just have a question. Are you looking for quick and cheap? Quick and long lasting? Quick and fancy.
Let's build us a quick budget.
Cost per hour of roofer labor. 25 Canadian dollars an hour (it might as well be monopoly money).
Overhead and taxes for Canadian projects is about 49% and 20% is for fringe
We'll slide in 10% G&A and 10% profit.
Fully Loaded labor rate 54.09, we'll round up to 55 cd
Superintendent salary 90,000 Canadian dollars a year
Fully Loaded superintendent labor rate 93 cd
For an shingle roof the time line should be a day to redo the whole damn thing, for metal or stone roofs about 2 days. If the roof is super fucked up or has weird slopes the cost goes up.
Shingle roof labor cost about 2600 Canadian Dollars
Metal/stone roof labor cost about 5200 Canadian Dollars
Material Costs to do 20 square shingle roof ~2400 Canadian Dollars
Material Costs to do 20 square Copper roof ~9600 Canadian Dollars
Material Costs to do 20 square Aluminum roof ~4600 Canadian Dollars
Material Costs to do 20 square Clay tile roof ~16800 Canadian Dollars (but looks sweet as fuck)
Material Costs to do 20 square galvalume roof ~5040 Candian Dollars
Assume a 10% waste factor
Assume 1100 Canadian dollars for dumpster, low cost materials such as nails, disposal and permitting
Asphalt Shingle roof cost 6340, or roughly 3.17 square foot installed
Copper roof cost 16860, or roughly 8.43 square foot installed
Aluminum roof cost 11360, or roughly 5.68 square foot installed
Clay tile roof ~24780, or roughly 12.39 square foot installed (but still sweet as fuck)
Galvalume roof ~ 11840, or roughly 5.92 square foot installed
Square stands for 100 square feet
Canadian Market is different from US Market so rough estimates may be way off. If your roof under the copper needs to be braced, or repaired from significant damage, look for another 3k-7k on top of that.
and some home insurance companies will charge you a premium if your roof is older than 10 years. just a tidbit.
That's hurricane related though. If you lived in the interior US I would imagine 20 would be attainable
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Depends on the roof construction, but generally yeah. If you are weather rated and had an inspection you can push beyond 10 years.
Most of the rest of the world uses wooden or slate shakes as the cheaper materials.
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