Their bid was $30,000. I hired the Amish and paid $8500.

Who removed an old chimney and roofed my tool shed for no extra charge.

Got Amish?

I think I'll take a double dose of CBD before I face the estimates.

We did it to sell the house. They are generally more expensive.

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My house is a typical ranch style so not a whole lot of pitch to the roof.

It took over two years to find someone
To do it.

Those Amish scaled it like it was nothing. With the tips of their boots on this slats.

That said have you looked into foam roofs they last longer than tar and gravel.

I figure, at my age, I'll be selling up and moving to someplace with MUCH less space and maintenance before another roof is required.

He somehow came up with a size estimate, but not a cost estimate. There was damage to the sheathing that was not apparent in photos.

that they won't be looking at it. Covid has changed a lot of ways people are doing business.

They can easily get the info they need from public records and send one guy out there to take a look, without even having to speak to you.

I have a cousin that installs and fixes cable and internet connections. For a while he was not even allowed to go into customer homes. He would do all the outside work and tell people through a window what to do inside. It could take him over 3 hours to do a 10 minute call.

And because they had done similar homes in my area they didn’t need to measure.


That said I am getting a new roof on my rental home and because business is slow I only am paying $2500.

I'm going to have lawn chairs set up for any conversation.

From the reaction I got, today, I'm hoping for some competitive, non-heart attack inducing estimates. I have money set aside for home improvements but have no idea how much a roof costs. Although it's the most critical thing, I just don't want to blow everything on one project.

Plus count all the gables and valleys. Here in Florida, they can look up the house's basic layout and square footage to confirm.

I called a company last year about getting solar panels - the guy looked my house up on the property appraiser's web site and checked on their aerial view maps. Just from that, he could tell that our big live oaks provided too much shade for us to get the full benefits from photovoltaic. Saved him a trip out here and us any regret that we should have done solar PV years ago.