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Any roofers on here?

scottydoggs said:
dont ask the guy who works in a office for help lol
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I work in an office and did my own roof. I posted up, simiilarly to this on forums and a bunch of guys drove pretty serious distances to help out. Asking around to buddies that are handy may net you the shovels and some ladders with the stands and planks (for the edges). Talk to friends etc and it's cool how it may fall into place.

I didn't really have the extra coin to pay to have my roof done. A large majority of the cost is labor. That....i knew I could do and if the average high school dropout could learn how to do a roof, then so could I. Heck..I can turn a wrench, bet I could pound a nail.

I have an air compressor, find one, borrow one...end up with one for a week. Borrow or rent the nail gun and buy nails for that gun. This makes things move much faster.
Ladders.. ask around. Even neighbors. No one should refuse a ladder borrow for a week. Use the areas you have to make life easier and where possible, spread the work out a little.
Dumpster...you want one.
Cheap tarps. ... do it.

I watched my parents neighbor (an engineer) redo 5500 sq ft of roof over 3-4 years. He took a long time, but in the end he had to redo some plywood and did a bang up job on the roof. Same guy gave me pointers.
Use the thicker felt/tar paper (cost is minimal)
Allow the edge of your ice barrier to overhang about 1/4-1/2" to wrap the edge
Flash the edges of the roof (standard long flashing)
Run a few chalk lines across the roof to give you straight reference points when you are putting down the shingles.
Ridge vent, the answer is yes. Takes a chalk line and a circular saw set to cut only through the plywood depth. Quick..easy and great to have.

After the first 2=3 rows, you'll be up on the roof instead of on a ladder and doing really well. Any project is about confidence and realizing..people have been doing this for a long time.. it's not overly hard once you learn the steps. After that..it's labor, labor and labor.

I can and have done
Plumbing
Drywall
Removed walls and put in beams to support load
Roofed
Landscaping wall block
Moved yards and yards of rock
Put in a shallow well for cheap lawn water
New garage doors
Windows
Tree work

It's all really simple once you gain confidence and maybe find someone that has done it before to give you pointers. I was quoted $6-8K for my roof, it cost me $2K including beer and pizza. If you are willing to put in some work.... you can save a ton of money. I figure it this way, I'll do the work now and pay someone later in life.
 


BillBoost37 said:
I work in an office and did my own roof. I posted up, simiilarly to this on forums and a bunch of guys drove pretty serious distances to help out. Asking around to buddies that are handy may net you the shovels and some ladders with the stands and planks (for the edges). Talk to friends etc and it's cool how it may fall into place.

I didn't really have the extra coin to pay to have my roof done. A large majority of the cost is labor. That....i knew I could do and if the average high school dropout could learn how to do a roof, then so could I. Heck..I can turn a wrench, bet I could pound a nail.

I have an air compressor, find one, borrow one...end up with one for a week. Borrow or rent the nail gun and buy nails for that gun. This makes things move much faster.
Ladders.. ask around. Even neighbors. No one should refuse a ladder borrow for a week. Use the areas you have to make life easier and where possible, spread the work out a little.
Dumpster...you want one.
Cheap tarps. ... do it.

I watched my parents neighbor (an engineer) redo 5500 sq ft of roof over 3-4 years. He took a long time, but in the end he had to redo some plywood and did a bang up job on the roof. Same guy gave me pointers.
Use the thicker felt/tar paper (cost is minimal)
Allow the edge of your ice barrier to overhang about 1/4-1/2" to wrap the edge
Flash the edges of the roof (standard long flashing)
Run a few chalk lines across the roof to give you straight reference points when you are putting down the shingles.
Ridge vent, the answer is yes. Takes a chalk line and a circular saw set to cut only through the plywood depth. Quick..easy and great to have.

After the first 2=3 rows, you'll be up on the roof instead of on a ladder and doing really well. Any project is about confidence and realizing..people have been doing this for a long time.. it's not overly hard once you learn the steps. After that..it's labor, labor and labor.

I can and have done
Plumbing
Drywall
Removed walls and put in beams to support load
Roofed
Landscaping wall block
Moved yards and yards of rock
Put in a shallow well for cheap lawn water
New garage doors
Windows
Tree work

It's all really simple once you gain confidence and maybe find someone that has done it before to give you pointers. I was quoted $6-8K for my roof, it cost me $2K including beer and pizza. If you are willing to put in some work.... you can save a ton of money. I figure it this way, I'll do the work now and pay someone later in life.
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This x's 2. Good advice here

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Bill you would be the exception to the rule for sure, most office workers are beyond soft. they dont know what a real days work is, when they show up to help they dont last.
 
I'm not afraid of doing it, I just want it done right. I also have gutter helmet gutters. The expensive kind that i don't want to screw up. My main thing is time. I don't wanna start it and get over my head. I had that happen when i tried to put new valve stems in our 3 handle shower. Needless to say i had the water off for 2 days before i got a plumber to fix that one. The seats just stripped out and didn't wanna budge. I've never done plumbing so i panicked and called someone. Glad i did in the long run because now i have a pressure balance shower valve but it cost my ass 400 bux.

I have a small air compressor but have access to a larger one. I know peeps with pneumatic nailers too. I guess my first step needs to be get a ladder and measure to see how much stuff i need and price it out.
 
scottydoggs said:
Bill you would be the exception to the rule for sure, most office workers are beyond soft. they dont know what a real days work is, when they show up to help they dont last.
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I know how to work i did manual labor before I got an office job. I worked on farms, grain elevators, dog food factory, walmart, lowes, contracted replacing pc's and equip all over the US. So i'm not afraid of doing work it's just sometimes i have to get motivated to do it.
 


You can just measure the house from the ground. HD/Lowes folks will understand how many squares based on just those measurements.

Scott... I ran circles around some truck driver back in December... He looked like the laboring type. :th_lipssealed2: lol just how I roll.
 
yeah, tearing off your roof for the for the time can be scary for sure lol once its off the real motivation starts, OMG i need to get a roof on here fast now! check and double check the weather reports too, and if at all possible have a tarp on hand large enough to cover your roof if bad weather rolls in. dont go gung ho and tear it all off at once, do a side or sections at a time.

now back to the soft thing, look around your office, you know who would never do a roof tear off.:th_laugh-pointup:

now this i must also say, roofing is not like other outside jobs, its hot all day, sun beating down on you, (never any shade) everything you want or need keeps rolling to the gutter, then you are sliding/ readjusting yourself all day to be comfortable as can be, then you step on a nail. or get one with the head ripped of in your ass while ripping the old roof off. and then 1/2 way through the shingles job, you realize your finger tips are bleeding and you have little black splinters stuck in your hands as well.

being a full time roofer is by far the hardest, dirtiest job ever. and not for everyone, i can't tell you how many guys worked one day and i never saw them again.

now i was primarily a commercial roofer, all flat roofs, the only time i did shingles was if it was part of the that job, small tie in's and what not. have done a ton of whole houses but standing all day flat footed is way better than walking a pitched roof all day, chit hurts.

and commercial roofers make more money. and with the fall of torch applied rolled roofing, HOT TAR is making a full come back, love that smell, i used to run the kettle.
 
BillBoost37 said:
Scott...sure it's rough work, that's why girls don't do it.
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thats where you are wrong, i do know a girl roofer, shes union too. she was hot in the face too, she used to be a stripper, and her thyroid got f ed up and she put on weight, and then had a kid. cant dance if your heavy. so she became a roofer, i dont get it, but it was cool talking to a girl about our jobs.
 


doesnt this happen to most of em if they dont OD?
scottydoggs said:
thats where you are wrong, i do know a girl roofer, shes union too. she was hot in the face too, she used to be a stripper, and her thyroid got f ed up and she put on weight, and then had a kid. cant dance if your heavy. so she became a roofer, i dont get it, but it was cool talking to a girl about our jobs.
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At work son. Plus i am in need of alot of tools, help, ect. I'm still debating on weather i want to tackle this or not. I gotta get some numbers crunched.
 


Well I am not a professional roofer. But so many times I planned myself and I did it myself to my house. I given Ideas and helped many of my friends also. But this is a rough work.
 
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Nope. No one seems to want to help. I'm still looking for a roofer. I dunno it's kidna a sore subject. I'm getting pretty tired of roofing companies blowing me off. All of them want to do the whole roof. I'm like why the top right isn't even 3 years old.

I'm still up in the air on what i wanna do. I might have to take a second job if my wife doesn't get this one she's had 3 interviews with. If that happens i'll be a grumpy, grouchy-bastard with no time to do anything.
 
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