After the last ice storm, I noticed some wear on the roof, particularly in the back, on the side near where the elm trees used to be. Not sure when it happened, but it suggested that we may want to replace the roof.
Also, as I mentioned in the post about removing the solar panels, we have been having trouble with the solar panels, and are going to replace them. Putting on new solar panels would require a new roof.
So we need a new roof.
And as it happens, one of the neighbors was getting a new roof, and then another one, so I started with those two companies: Linear Roofing and Tarrant Roofing. Both looked to be able to do a good job. The main issue is cost. But the neighbors were getting their roofs replaced partly by insurance, due to hail damage. We have a very high deductible for the house -- around $16K, probably 2% -- but the roof was coming it at $23K to $26K, so if we could get the insurance company to agree that we needed a new roof -- due to the same hail storm that damaged our neighbors roofs -- then our cost for the roof would be fixed at our deductible, and the insurance company would pay the rest, in which case the price difference, if any between the different companies would be irrelevant. So we went with Linear.
Our insurer, State Farm, on the other hand, felt that although the roof of the neighbor up the street was totaled by the hail storm, we had minimal damage -- $1491 to be exact -- so they were not going to be paying anything for it.
The contract with Linear was for $26,700 to remove the existing roof and replace it with the same basic thing, plus gutters.
They sent a crew on 29 March 2023 to take down the old gutters. Then another crew on 12 April to replace the roof. They began by removing the old shingles.
Then they removed the old tar paper, getting down to the plywood roof decking.
This got us down to just the bare roof.
On this bare plywood, they put down new tar paper.
And then new shingles
The shingles are "Resawn Shake" color of CertainTeed Landmark brand Fiber Glass Asphalt Self-Sealing Shingles.
It took about a day to remove the old roof and put on the new roof.
New gutters to follow.
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