What the number is built from
New Roof Cost in Aubrey, TX
A new roof is priced by the square, and a typical house here measures about twenty-four. What moves the cost is rarely the shingle; it is what turns up when the old roof surface comes off.
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Overview
What the square count is built from
A square is a hundred square feet of finished roof, and the count is what an estimate is really made of. It comes from the planes, the pitch and the waste at every valley and edge, which is why two houses with the same floor area can sit several squares apart. On most streets here the count lands near twenty-four.
Give the same roof two more seasons and it prices differently, for reasons that have nothing to do with the market. Each hail season leaves more bruised mat and thinner granules behind, and sheathing that was sound at the last look can have soft spots at the next. The figure moves because by then there is more work in the job.
What the build year already tells you about the deck
Each of these is something found on the roof, and the estimate should separate them from anything you choose. Here is what each one does to the number.
LayersHow many coverings are on the deck decides tear-off or overlay. On a house built around 2011 the answer is usually one, which is the cheap case.
DeckWhat the sheathing turns out to be under the covering, and whether any of it is soft. This is the line that moves a number after the work starts.
ShapePitch, valleys and the number of separate planes. A cut-up roof costs more per square than a simple one of the same size.
Pricing a roof that has not aged out
Most of the housing here went up around 2011, which settles several of the questions that make an older roof expensive to price. What it does not settle is on the next few lines.
What you can see
What it does not tell you
What it means for the price
The roof looks original to the house
Whether it is one layer or two
One layer is a clean tear-off. Two is roughly a day more labor and more to haul away.
The shingles lie flat from the street
Whether the mat under them is bruised
Hail damage does not change the tear-off, but it changes whether you are replacing now or in five years.
The ceilings inside are clean
What the decking is doing under the covering
Soft sheathing is priced per sheet once it is visible, and it is the most common reason a number moves mid-job.
A neighbor paid a certain figure
How their roof is cut up compared to yours
Two houses on one street can differ by several squares and several valleys, and that gap is most of the spread.
Questions
What the decking under a 2010s roof turns out to be
Q1What is the average cost of replacing a roof in Texas?
A statewide average is close to useless, because it blends a simple ranch in a cheap labor market with a cut-up two-story in an expensive one. The unit that survives the blending is the square, a hundred square feet of finished roof. What your own roof costs comes off the measurement: the squares on it, the pitch, how many layers come off, and what the deck turns out to need underneath. The quote comes from whoever measured.
Q2What time of year is the cheapest to replace a roof?
Not a month worth naming, and anyone naming one is guessing. What actually moves scheduling and pricing here is hail. After a bad spring storm every roofer in the county is booked at once, materials move, and the crews with room are often the ones who came from out of state for the season. A quiet stretch with no recent event is the easier time to get a careful measurement and a considered price, and that has more to do with the storm calendar than with winter.
Q3Why will nobody give me a price over the phone?
Because the two lines that move the number most, the layer count and the condition of the deck, are both invisible from a phone call and one of them is invisible until the covering is off. A phone figure is either padded to cover the worst case or low enough that it will change later.
Q4Does a bigger roof always cost more?
Per square, often the opposite. Setup, tear-off and haul-away spread across more squares on a large simple roof, while a small roof cut up with valleys, dormers and separate planes costs more per square than its size suggests.
Q5What is the most common surprise on an estimate?
Decking. It is priced per sheet, it is found rather than predicted, and it is the reason the estimate should say what happens if soft sheathing turns up rather than leaving it to the invoice.
Two numbers, same roof
Reading two Aubrey estimates side by side
Send the address and a local roofer measures the planes, counts the squares and writes each shingle option out on its own line. The measurement is yours to keep, with no obligation attached, and taking it to another roofer is a normal thing to do with it.
The squares, counted on siteThe deck, named in the scopeEach option on its own line
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