Shingle Roof Replacement in Sylvan Beach

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.

For a standard asphalt roof on an average Houston-area house, yes -- that is roughly double the $10,500 to $14,000 most land at. It is not unreasonable for a large house, a complicated multi-plane roof, or a standing seam metal system, all of which exist in this service area. The number alone does not answer the question; what the quote itemizes does. If it does not break out area, perimeter, decking and the certification, you cannot tell.

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.

Not on age alone -- but on this coast there is a second question that matters more. A 20 year old architectural roof is middle-aged by material standards, so the usual tests apply: granule loss, brittleness, how flat the covering lies, whether the deck is sound. Then ask how it was fastened. A roof fitted 20 years ago may have been stapled, or nailed to a pattern that predates the current wind requirement, and on a bay-shore house that matters more than how the shingles look.