Shingle Roof Replacement in Mayfield Heights

Architectural at $5.00 to $6.70 a square foot against three-tab nearer $3.50. On a house you intend to keep, the heavier product is worth the difference here because the loading is harder than inland. On one you are selling next spring it may genuinely not be, and a quote that does not ask which you are doing has not asked enough.

Less than the nailing. A high wind rating on the packaging assumes a fixing pattern, and a course fixed with four nails where the specification says six does not have that rating whatever the bundle claims. On the shore streets this is the difference that counts.

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.

On Greater Cleveland rates a 1,500 square foot roof works out at roughly $5,250 to $12,000 depending on product and complexity, and most land nearer $10,000 once tear-off, ice barrier and a permit are included. One frequent source of confusion: 1,500 square feet of FLOOR is not 1,500 square feet of roof. Pitch, overhangs and dormers commonly make the roof area a third larger, which is why quotes can look inexplicably far apart.

It is a Florida rule and it has no force in Ohio. 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 require the whole roof to be brought up to current code. Ohio has no equivalent provision. It shows up in searches here because national content repeats it without saying which state it belongs to -- and anyone quoting it at you in Ohio is citing the wrong code book.