Reasonable qoutation for roofing repair?

[peca27]

Morning all

I've just had a quotation for some roofing work, just wondering if it seems reasonable to all? PS- I will be getting another 1 or 2 qoutes asap.

I live in a standard semi (approx 40 yrs old) with double roman tiles on the roof + i need the following doing:

- The gable end has a wet (cement) verge finish, but all the cement has fallen out. Therefore require all that gable end to be re-cemented.

- The ridge tiles require repointing (the roofer tells me) with 3 of them requiring to be rebedded also.

- There are 8 broken/chipped/cracked roof tiles that require replacing also. He wants £15 per tile to replace them. How much would a single double roman tile cost usually?

All in, cash in hand, he wants £270 - does that sound fair?

To me he needs buckets of cement, 8 tiles and maybe i'm guessing 2 to 3 hours. You guessed it, I think he's a propably a bit expensive, but i don't know.............i bow to your superior knowledge.

Any comments welcome.

 

[Deluks]

Get another couple of quotes. Also ask yourself how much someone would have to pay you for clambering about 30ft up in the air.

 

[noseall]

seems fair to me.

pop and buy yourself a set of ally ladders.

 

[carl townsend]

being a roofer myself the quote seems to be fair. i would not think that you will get it much cheaper. i presume there will be no scaffolding so, pointing the verges can be a bit awkward.

 

[js.roofing]

Agree with deluks
how much would you hang over a gable end for!
price is about right depending on length of your gable, but without a scaffold your guess at a couple of hours work is wayyy out!

 

[peca27]

afternoon all, many thanks for the replies

ended getting two more quote's, came in at £300 and at £120.........wasn't too keen on the chap offering to do it for £120- not gona go any further on that guy. Therefore ended up going for the 1st guy at £270.

All seems to have been done ok, says he's put in an additional glue/adhesive into the cement to make sure it don't fall out of verge again. Put in the 8 tiles, didn't hear him tapping any back into the battens - just pulled them out + slid the new one's back in. Re-bedded the ridge tiles, but didn't remove all the old cement (told me u don't have to????) and then filled up the verge with cement.

£270 for 3.5 hours work js.roofing........like i thought. I don't claim it's easy to hang over a verge + climb onto roofs etc.........but this guy then proceeded to rebed (or did he just point up? ) the ridge tiles of 3 other houses on the street + replace broken tiles etc + he was gone by 4.30pm. WOW i would have like to know how much he made for that 6 hours work.

 

[Nige F]

£600.00 sounds like another itinerant to me .....nothing changes , .....most of the £££goes down the urinal @ the pub