Flat Roof Replacement in South Euclid

EPDM at $5 to $9 a square foot and TPO at $6 to $12, and on normal residential additions either will do the job if the detailing is right. What matters far more here is the upstand height and the drainage, because both have to work with snow sitting on the roof rather than rain running off it.

Not in itself -- water that clears within a day or two is normal. Water still there a week later is a seam being tested continuously. In winter it is worse than that, because ice over an outlet means the roof has no drainage at all until it thaws.

It depends on the municipality, and in Euclid the answer is yes -- a roof replacement needs a building permit from the Building and Housing Department. That matters beyond the paperwork: the permit is the point at which the city checks that your contractor is registered with it, so skipping the permit removes the only formal check in the process. It also leaves unpermitted work on the property, which surfaces awkwardly when the house is sold.

In Greater Cleveland, most houses between 1,500 and 2,500 square feet cost $10,000 to $14,500 for a full replacement in architectural asphalt, with the wider local range running $8,500 to $21,000. Per square foot that is $3.50 to $8.00, with architectural product typically $5.00 to $6.70 and basic three-tab at the bottom of the range. Costs in this corner of the state sit a little above the Ohio average, which reflects labor rather than materials.

Middle-aged rather than old. Twenty years is well inside the normal service life of architectural asphalt and at the end of it for three-tab, so the first useful question is which one you have. After that it is condition, not the date: granule loss, brittleness, how flat the covering lies, whether the deck is sound. In this climate add one more -- whether it has been damming, because a roof with twenty winters of meltwater under its bottom courses is older at the eaves than it is anywhere else.