Redoing Your Roof Shingles Yourself

Use these tips to reshingle your roof.

Redoing your roof shingles yourself.

Using a tape measure measure equal parts on either side of the roof and then split the remaining length to find the middle. Rock bottom a three tab composite roof for a small home may cost as little as 7 000. To be sure your shingles don t end up uneven and crooked you ll want to find the centerline of your roof. If your roof is in good shape but has some damage to one side from a downed tree or has lost shingles in a wind storm an overlay is worth considering.

You can hire a roofing company to replace your shingles. You can rest assured that a contractor will not let labor and raw material get wasted during the job. 50 year shingles shingles with the longest available warranty add just 300 to 500 to your total cost with an architectural look varying color and thickness that creates upscale character for just 250 to 750 extra. However with wear and tear roof shingles need to be replaced.

Install the shingles up and halfway past the vent hole or stack. Roofing involves a great deal of physical labor especially if you plan to tear off your existing roof before installing the new roof. If a tiling pro is coming to redo your floors perhaps you d want to rip up the old floor before he arrived. Next install your vent or stack flashing over that row of shingles photo 13.

The national average cost to replace a roof is 7 211 with most homeowners spending between 4 707 and 10 460 roof installation cost ranges from 400 to 550 per square depending on the roof size and materials used in reroofing. Redoing your roof yourself might have incurred a loss due to improper estimation and attempts. If you re not comfortable walking on a roof or carrying heavy objects up a ladder you should think twice about taking on a roofing job. The roofing contractor you choose the pitch steepness or your roof and the square footage of your roof are other factors that affect the cost.

You can also buy all of the materials needed to reshingle your roof at a home improvement or hardware store and do the work yourself. To make sure you don t have to worry about your roof again and give you some selling points when you re ready to move go for top quality products. You may be a firm believer in doing some of the work yourself. If you absolutely need a new roof to lower your energy bills and keep water and wind out of your house but you cannot afford it talk to a professional roofer.

Expect to spend 1 500 to 3 000 to remove your current roof before installing a replacement. A top commercial service provider will give you the best estimation and will also use a proven approach to do the job right. Find your roof s center. Stripping away the old roof more expensive because of the additional labor and materials peeling off the old roof down to the sheathing is your only option if you already have two layers.

From the left edge of your roof and make a mark. Nail it down with your roofing gun top and bottom.