Slate Roof Replacement in Ampere

Much cheaper up front -- $4.50 to $8.00 a square foot against $20 to $35 to replace slate -- and frequently the wrong decision, because a repairable slate roof has decades left. It is also irreversible on a period house. We will price both honestly and say which we would do.

Often, where the size and color are still quarried. Where they are not, the best match available is sound slate salvaged from a low-visibility elevation of your own roof -- which is why slate coming off is stacked carefully rather than treated as waste.

Usually not. Slate outlives almost everything fixed to it, and slipped slates on a pre-war roof normally mean the nails have corroded rather than that the slate has failed. Leaks at a valley usually mean a rusted lining. Both are repairs, and replacing an existing slate roof at $20 to $35 per square foot is a very expensive way to fix a nail problem.

Because most online figures are national and this is not a national market. New Jersey pricing is $9,500 to $26,000 for an architectural asphalt roof, and a good part of the difference is detailing a warm climate does not need: ice barrier at the eaves, drip edge, and the nailing to survive a February gust.

Across separate structures, yes, and it is often the right answer -- a garage, a rear addition and the house are three roofs of three different ages. Across one roof, usually not: mobilization and waste cost much the same twice as once, you get a visible line where new meets weathered, and the half left behind ages through another winter.