basically roof on our house, all the felting inside it is falling off, cellings are looking a bit damp in places so think it all needs redoing which i
do believe means the roof coming off.
anyone got any rough idea at the cost of having this work done? 3 bed semi so nothing special to work around.
thanks for any help.
I have just managed to get a quote, a result in it's self, to re-do the roof on my end terrace house. Strip seal arround the chimney and gulleys
etc. inc. scaffolding and skip £6000
You're not wrong about it being a job in itself to get someone to quote in the first place 
Our house needs the same - late 70's 3 bed semi with perished felt and crap tiles. I've had 3 people round to quote and only one actually
bothered to submit a quote and even that wasn't what I'd asked him to quote for either 
I'm still looking!
Roofer IMHO take the wee cos they know its a job few people will take on themselves....
Our neighbours just spent a load of cash on getting their house re-roofed. The builders spent most of the last two months lying on top of our
neighbours garage in the sunshine or knocking down our garden fence with their scaffolding poles....
My own experience with roofers has been even worse (bordering on intimidation + threats of violence).....
Definately make sure you get a good recommendation. Cos it's way up high they think they can get away with shoddy work only a true cowboy (or
girl) would be proud of....
6k?! i feel sick now!
Go through their national federation NFRC to find an approved contractor in your area. Both of the firms we use for roofing works are members and are very good.
You could have look HERE and HERE for sprayed foam, if you have
easy access to the underside of the roof,
Cheers
Alex
PS
plenty other companies doing the same thing too
I think Surrey prices are double what we would expect further north. It took 2 years to get a crew to do our roof. We had it done 4 years ago and it cost £4,500 for a double terrace with an extension on the back and new gutters and downpipes. A single terrace runs at about £3,000 round here now but there shouldn't be any gulleys on a terrace roof, just the chimney flashings.
I'm in Scotland.
In my line of work (housing grants) I see prices for this sort of stuff all the time.
For an average mid or end terraced house with nothing complicated going on it costs from £3,500 to strip a roof back to the sarking and refelt, batten
and tile it with dry ridges and verges.
Start getting into valleys and hips on the roof and the prices increase.
Does your roof have any rot due to the ongoing water ingress ?
Because that would need some looking at too.
Pity you're not up here because I know lots of reliable roofers who don't charge like a rhino.
For 6K id expect a total new roof not just stripping the tiles off, new felt / lats and relaying the tiles. In fact i managed to get a complicated
hipped extension and huge garage roof done for a lot less from scratch.
Are you sure it needs fully felting. Its not uncommon for the felt to rot back from the edges and the ridges etc needing re-pointing. A good roofer
should be able to remove all ridges and the end couple of tiles, slot in new felt and bed them all down on new mortar. Just dont let them push a bit
of new mortar in the old without lifting them off.
Go to the reference section of your local library, taking with you the details of the job. This would include the roof area, the type of tile, type of
underfelting, length of any valleys, number of chimney penetrations and so on.
The tables in the books will allow you to estimate the cost of the job, so that you will know when you are given a fair estimate.
Mal
We have a 3 story end of terrace (the middle houses are 2 story) which has a gulley at the ft, and ridges top and rear. Needs doing because the nails have rusted and the odd tile's been moving for a while. The £6K does not include re felting as far as I know, must check.
Hi, 6K sounds very excessive
My cousin who lives close to me had all tiles taken off, relatted, refelted, 2 additional rows of tiles added as originals didn't overlap enough
and all scaffolding included for £1400 by a reputable local roofing company. (1970's 3 bed semi)
Had our roof done recently on a 3 bed semi. The slates, battons and felt were stripped off and replaced, and I had plastic gutters and fascia boards
put in. The slates were real ones, but with quite a few missing, so decided to cash in the slates and have synthetic ones fitted as we won't be
living here by the time they expire. Next door was done at the same time, and I think the total price was about £3.8k after slate cashback, including
scaffolding and skip hire (bloody expensive things those skips!).
The builder was not very local (he was from Torquay, I'm in Plymouth), but came recommended and did a good job. Scaffolders lived just up the
road and they took forever to put the scaffolding up and to take it down afterwards (2 months after job was done). This seems common as they use your
house as storage until they need the scaffolding for their next job. Still...scaffold planks are very useful...
i paid 1600 in bolton for a full front and patched back, and new lead, on a regular 2 sided end terrace. Needed about 50 tiles buying in, rest reused.
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Originally posted by richardR1
Go through their national federation NFRC to find an approved contractor in your area. Both of the firms we use for roofing works are members and are very good.
