Re-roof cost?

danoliver1 · 27 Mar 2015 at 15:57

Having a rethink about removing the chimney it depends on whether we stay in this house(unlikely as household income is 70k gross now and will continue to rise, the house is worth 80kish so in say 5 years time when we have saved a fair whack we will be moving) at least if the chimney is still there then we have the option.

NoNameNoNumber · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:00

Is it not building control notifiable to remove the chimney too?

Maccapacca · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:22

Mark A said:
Wouldn't removing the chimney affect the house price?

Don't underestimate people stupidity.

When I moved in here I thought great open fire woohoo and proceeded to order 5 ton bags of logs.

I had at least 3 neighbours come along and say "ooooo have you got an open fire?" whilst I stacked my logs.

We live on an estate, all the houses are broadly the same with chimneys I point to there roof "look chimney", because some of them have had the breast removed they didn't think they had a open fire even though they had a chimney sticking out their roof.

Similarly if you take the chimney down, brick the fire placed up before some numpty lights a fire.

mattyg · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:25

Has anyone mentioned selling the old slate yet.

danoliver1 · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:31

Roofer mentioned selling old slate which is why tile reroof was cheap at £3500.

mattyg · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:36

I re did mine myself. We reused most of the slate but you'll lose 10-15% that'll just break into pieces. We then stripped a load of slate from the extension(all of them) and replaced those with marley's. Meant we kept costs down to under 1k

a1ex2001 · 28 Mar 2015 at 06:53

Re-using the old slates is fin in theory but often proved to be more complicated in practice! When we did our house we wanted to reuse on the front using slated from the back to make up the losses. This eventually turned out to be not possible for several reason firstly the slates were in terrible condition after 125 years of Northern winters a lot of them just crumbled, secondly our whole house was tiled in non standard tile sizes so reclaimed replacements were rare and more annoyingly they had actually used three different sizes!

In the end we went with modern market cement slates as they were cheap look nice and will last we could have used reclaimed or new british slate if we were millionaires or imported Chinese slate if we only wanted our roof to last 5-10 years!

danoliver1 · 1 Apr 2015 at 23:03

Update: 2nd quote came in at £2600 to reslate and £3100 to retile, decided to keep the chimney and repoint/cap.
Just waiting on the 3rd quote now.

Millwall.FC · 2 Apr 2015 at 09:44

NoNameNoNumber said:
Is it not building control notifiable to remove the chimney too?

Yes!

Twirlywoos · 2 Apr 2015 at 10:47

about £3k, I can give you the number of a roofer who recently did my gaff (Manchester area)
Note: I paid them after the job was done, I never pay builders before due to horror stories.

danoliver1 · 2 Apr 2015 at 11:40

majnu said:
about £3k, I can give you the number of a roofer who recently did my gaff (Manchester area)
Note: I paid them after the job was done, I never pay builders before due to horror stories.

Thanks that would be great. Can you send details to my email.

danoliver1 · 2 Apr 2015 at 14:13

majnu said:
about £3k, I can give you the number of a roofer who recently did my gaff (Manchester area)
Note: I paid them after the job was done, I never pay builders before due to horror stories.

Thanks mate. What did you have done out of interest? Still undecided on tiles or slates.

Twirlywoos · 9 Apr 2015 at 13:38

danoliver1 said:
Thanks mate. What did you have done out of interest? Still undecided on tiles or slates.

sorry for late reply, was in hospital until Tuesday just gone.

Just had normal tiles, these are my roof tiles.

Chimney stack removed, roof re-felted, rotten battens replaced where needed on a semi-detached house.

One thing I didn't like however was that they left the Arial that was attached to the chimney stack on the roof and they said that a specialist Arial fitter will need to re-position and sort out the wires.

Additionally, they said that if I wanted a finial adding that it will cost extra but they would fit it free of charge. I saw some nice dragon/horse mythical type ones on ebay which looked awesome but didn't suit the style of my house.

Had the job done during the winter which isn't busy for roofers due to the weather so I was able to negotiate a decent price.

HTH

a1ex2001 · 10 Apr 2015 at 09:29

That ridge system looks a bit 'interesting' did it origionally have a black ridge on red tiles?

danoliver1 · 26 Apr 2015 at 19:15

Final quote came in of £3200 for the thin concrete tiles and £4500 for new slate. Any reason not to go for the tiles?

koolpc · 26 Apr 2015 at 19:26

Depends where you live as regards the price. I had mine done a few years ago and cost me 3k. I had 1k back as i sold the welsh slate that came off! I replaced it with spanish slate as the old slate had too many holes in it!

Miguél · 26 Apr 2015 at 19:35

majnu said:
about £3k, I can give you the number of a roofer who recently did my gaff (Manchester area)
Note: I paid them after the job was done, I never pay builders before due to horror stories.

Can you send me the details too? Looking at getting some quotes soon. Thanks

a1ex2001 · 27 Apr 2015 at 21:38

danoliver1 said:
Final quote came in of £3200 for the thin concrete tiles and £4500 for new slate. Any reason not to go for the tiles?

None at all, make sure they are using a quality brand of modern tiles the cheap ones can curve in the sun.

danoliver1 · 2 May 2015 at 16:58

Went for the middle quote of £3200 with thin marley concrete tiles, scaffold went up today job starts on monday/tuesday.

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