It’s my understanding from talking to our roofer that it’s regular three tab shingles, architectural are 2x-3x more, and metal is 5x more.
Of course, it could be the market or code that makes it (more) expensive than in;other parts of the country, but considering material and engineering costs I could sort of see it. -D Sent from my iPad > On Aug 5, 2021, at 1:38 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The extra cost of metal roofing seems to vary wildly as to how many metal > roofs are being done there. In Maine it seems like everybody is doing a metal > roof and the price is not that much more. Considering the advantages I can > see why everybody is doing metal roofs. In the next 5-10 years I plan to go > that route on the new-to-us farmhouse. > > When we had the roof done on our house in MA a metal roof was more than > triple the cost of architectural shingles. Since we don't plan to be there > another 30 years we went the lower cost route. > -Curt > > On Thursday, August 5, 2021, 10:33:17 AM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I put a metal roof on my whole house when I did the addition, 50yr roof > at least. Cost was not that much more and you don't have to think about > it ever again > > --FT > >> On 8/5/21 10:01 AM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: >> Is this the only continent that uses asphalt garbage on roofs? I just don’t >> understand why a roof would be intentionally made to be temporary with all >> other options totally unaffordable. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Aug 5, 2021, at 9:52 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2021-08-05 09:42, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >>>> Typically 20 or so depending on the location and climate. It’s been my >>>> experience that insurers will depreciate a roof over 20 years. >>> So if your perfectly good 22 year old shingles get damaged by hail, do they >>> just say 'it was time anyway, have fun paying for it yourself'? >>> >>> Mitch >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > -- > --FT > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
