Understanding Your Roofing Estimate

Copyright (c) 2011 Andrew Scherer

Let there be no doubt about it but that massive changes have occurred to the way that buildings are roofed in more recent times. As an example, having a flat roof put on has become far more expensive and it's not just the labor costs that account for it. It's also the cost increase of so many of the newer materials, and systems.

Now just what is it that a typical contractor looks at and takes into account when he crunches his number to come up with a final estimate? For sure it must involve more than simply counting off the square feet? There has to be more to it than that and one more question that home and business owners are asking, is why the new longer lasting materials cost more.

The first thing you should know is that there are several things that will be taken into account in your estimate, and of course the first one will be roof size. That is the total square footage of your roof. Then the other big price factor will be whether or not it requires a tear off because a tear off job can add up to 30% to your final price.

Then there are things like accessibility. That is how easily it will be to bring trucks in to cart off the tear off, and of course load the roof. In short, the more difficult and time consuming it is, the higher your final cost will be. Perhaps you can take it upon yourself to close off a parking lot, or remove a section of fence.

Now as far as roofing systems are concerned there's numerous to pick from and as general rule the longer their service life the a lot more you're going to have to pay. Now membrane and rubber roofs have grow to be well-known in recent times and even then they are categorized in diverse styles like cold liquid rubber, and torch down.

Still in the final summary, it's important that you not lose track of one very important fact. That is that with so many choices in newer systems available one can easily forget that older style tar and gravel, hot mopped roofs are still being laid down. Now for sure they don't last as long as newer rubber and membrane systems, but they are the cheapest option.

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