Shingle Roof Replacement in Bay Forest

Only if the nailing pattern matches. Manufacturers rate shingles against a specified fixing pattern, so a course put on with four nails where the instructions call for six does not carry the rating printed on the bundle. On this coast that is the difference that counts.

Architectural at $6.00 to $9.00 a square foot gives 25 to 30 years here; three-tab at $4.50 to $7.50 gives 15 to 20. On a house you intend to keep, and particularly one that sees the bay, the heavier product is worth the difference. On one you are selling next spring it may genuinely not be.

On Houston-area rates, 2,800 square feet of ROOF in architectural asphalt works out at roughly $16,800 to $25,200, and rather less in three-tab. The trap is in the units: 2,800 square feet of floor is not 2,800 square feet of roof. Pitch, overhangs and dormers commonly make the roof area a third larger than the house area, which is the commonest reason two quotes look inexplicably far apart.

Nobody selling roofs is a neutral source on that, so here is what is actually known rather than a forecast. Roofing prices follow asphalt and steel input costs, freight, and local labor availability, and along this coast they spike for months after any significant wind event because demand arrives all at once. What that means practically is that the cheapest time to replace a roof is when you choose to, and the most expensive is the two weeks after half the neighborhood decides at the same time.

It is a Florida rule and it has no force in Texas. The 25% rule comes from the Florida Building Code Existing Building, where repairing or replacing more than a quarter of a roof within a year can trigger a requirement to bring the whole roof up to current code. Texas has no equivalent provision, and La Porte's requirements are set out in its own roofing policy instead. Anyone quoting the 25% rule at you in Texas is citing the wrong state's code book.