Roof caps are the easiest thing to replace since they are on the top layer.
Even easier, You can buy a roll of zinc or copper strip that goes over the top (it’s designed to stop mold growth) and you’ll be good for another 100 years or so.
Boomer here. I live near one of the worlds largest deposits of tar and sand, and lots of trees (many millions rotting due to pine beetles) and mountains made of rock.
This shit is even more expensive here.
Every time I see the prices reminds me of how much I hate boomers.
Yeah, but they still gotta import it from China regardless of the natural resources in your area. How are they going to be the psychopathic corporates shitload that they dreamed of being without exporting all of our jobs and having kinds in third world make it all?
Asphalt shingle roofing and tile roofing use a different kind of sub structure. The structure for tile is slightly harder to build. They are also heavier and slower to install than shingles. The end result is that you end up spending more on labor for tile and, at least in my area, it ends up costing more overall. This can be highly location dependent though.
Most housing is built in bulk to be done as fast and as cheaply as possible. Even if it only means saving $100 per house, if you are building 3,000 of them at a clip, it adds up. So, to the builder, it doesn't matter if the thing that is $750 is 3 times better than the thing that is $650 they are going for the cheaper option every time.
As a homeowner, NEVER buy a 'tract house'. Don't do it. Get something custom built or old (and I don't mean an old tract home). Yeah, a custom built home costs a ton more but reputable custom home builders actually warranty their work (builders warranty, NOT the same as a home warranty).
That is for only 20 feet.
Don't buy shit at the big box stores, guy. Home Depot, Lowes, etc., are the Walmart of building supply stores. Picture related. Get a quality product and you only have to pay for it once.
Anon, I'm a former yuropoor so I understand why you ask this.
The reason America is weird on labor side, like service in restaurants sucks compared to Europe, house builds prioritize speed vs longevity is because labor is insanely expensive in America. A Mexican border jumper doing manual labor will make more money than you can dream of.
That all adds up to companies trying to save every second of labor they can.
Me personally, I paid a local band of rednecks to install a steel roof for me. They got pissed drunk on bud light that I furnished them, but it hasn't leaked or blown away in 12 years now. And they point and the roof and brag how they built it on ever BBQ I host, which I support, their wives picked good rednecks to marry.
A drunk isn't going to be able to consistently drive screws with over compressing several of the hundreds of rubber gaskets. Stop exaggerating. Drunks on a roof period is makes this story unbelievable.
Isn't America the country that is renowned for refusing to raise the minimum wage to match the cost of living?
My assumption was that everything is built cheap so that the wealthy elite can squirrel away a few more dollars from the lower classes.
Its supposed to be so that it doesn't increase the cost of goods even more so that those raises mean nothing, but every fricking moron and their mom refuses to see what the central banks are doing so they just clamor for higher minimum wage for their 40 year old son that works at a cash register and refuses to improve himself. Does no one get this stuff? Do people look at how much social security comes out of their paycheck and think "oh yeah I want to pay more of that!" Improve yourself, save and invest yourself, quit relying on gigantic homosexual government that has its own ever grown class of leeches that can never be fired.
Something like 60% of minimum wage workers are students. The other 40% are too moronic to think 'hmm maybe I should stop being the lowest tier of society.' so they're a lost cause anyway.
I am not seeing a lot about how to replace single ridge caps. Anyone got a video?
I have got about 160 on my roof and that's going to cost $500. I think I'm better off patching with roof tar and trying to get another 10 years out of this roof.
You pull them off, cover old holes up with tar, put new on and gently bend up the ones next to it a little so you can nail them in. Need to nail in about an inch up from edges. If you can't find people doing it look up installing a roof anchor and see if they show how to replace the ridge cap.
Yeah, man, Thats fine. just do it good and proper, and in the next few years pull the trigger on the big job when you can. Don't push it too far if you have bad winter months.
I unironically used it once at a resin plant in a cooling tower because spray from the water hitting a fan was hitting a hole. Water was running down the outside and freezing so they were afraid the wall was going to collapse.
Looks like -5 years to me
Roof caps are the easiest thing to replace since they are on the top layer.
Even easier, You can buy a roll of zinc or copper strip that goes over the top (it’s designed to stop mold growth) and you’ll be good for another 100 years or so.
how to get rid of moss and mold?
I fear that if I scratch it out I will destroy the tiles.
Spray a 50/50 mix of water and bleach on the roof
please don't troll me
Look up concrobium for the mold.
> concrobium
It’s just trisodium phosphate, TSP.
Commonly used in soaps before the whole anti-phosphate panic. “Phosphate Free” … remeber seeing that?
Yikes
>Literally paper coated in rocks and asphalt
>that will be 65.99 plus tip
I hate boomers so much it's unreal.
Make your own shingles and start selling them then.
Boomer here. I live near one of the worlds largest deposits of tar and sand, and lots of trees (many millions rotting due to pine beetles) and mountains made of rock.
This shit is even more expensive here.
Every time I see the prices reminds me of how much I hate boomers.
Yeah, but they still gotta import it from China regardless of the natural resources in your area. How are they going to be the psychopathic corporates shitload that they dreamed of being without exporting all of our jobs and having kinds in third world make it all?
That is for only 20 feet.
can you just buy normal red brick roof ?
my toof haven't been changed since it was built
Asphalt shingle roofing and tile roofing use a different kind of sub structure. The structure for tile is slightly harder to build. They are also heavier and slower to install than shingles. The end result is that you end up spending more on labor for tile and, at least in my area, it ends up costing more overall. This can be highly location dependent though.
Most housing is built in bulk to be done as fast and as cheaply as possible. Even if it only means saving $100 per house, if you are building 3,000 of them at a clip, it adds up. So, to the builder, it doesn't matter if the thing that is $750 is 3 times better than the thing that is $650 they are going for the cheaper option every time.
As a homeowner, NEVER buy a 'tract house'. Don't do it. Get something custom built or old (and I don't mean an old tract home). Yeah, a custom built home costs a ton more but reputable custom home builders actually warranty their work (builders warranty, NOT the same as a home warranty).
Don't buy shit at the big box stores, guy. Home Depot, Lowes, etc., are the Walmart of building supply stores. Picture related. Get a quality product and you only have to pay for it once.
Anon, I'm a former yuropoor so I understand why you ask this.
The reason America is weird on labor side, like service in restaurants sucks compared to Europe, house builds prioritize speed vs longevity is because labor is insanely expensive in America. A Mexican border jumper doing manual labor will make more money than you can dream of.
That all adds up to companies trying to save every second of labor they can.
Me personally, I paid a local band of rednecks to install a steel roof for me. They got pissed drunk on bud light that I furnished them, but it hasn't leaked or blown away in 12 years now. And they point and the roof and brag how they built it on ever BBQ I host, which I support, their wives picked good rednecks to marry.
A drunk isn't going to be able to consistently drive screws with over compressing several of the hundreds of rubber gaskets. Stop exaggerating. Drunks on a roof period is makes this story unbelievable.
Isn't America the country that is renowned for refusing to raise the minimum wage to match the cost of living?
My assumption was that everything is built cheap so that the wealthy elite can squirrel away a few more dollars from the lower classes.
Its supposed to be so that it doesn't increase the cost of goods even more so that those raises mean nothing, but every fricking moron and their mom refuses to see what the central banks are doing so they just clamor for higher minimum wage for their 40 year old son that works at a cash register and refuses to improve himself. Does no one get this stuff? Do people look at how much social security comes out of their paycheck and think "oh yeah I want to pay more of that!" Improve yourself, save and invest yourself, quit relying on gigantic homosexual government that has its own ever grown class of leeches that can never be fired.
Something like 60% of minimum wage workers are students. The other 40% are too moronic to think 'hmm maybe I should stop being the lowest tier of society.' so they're a lost cause anyway.
>A Mexican border jumper doing manual labor will make more money than you can dream of.
Wtf are you talking about. That’s literally the dumbest shit I’ve seen posted on a while
>Well doc how long have I got?
Yesterday.
just pack some bondo into the gaps
Now the scene from the simpsons movie makes sense.
Just buy a pack of normal shingles, cut it into sections and just nail the new ones over the old
I'm guessing the rest of your roof needs replaced but you're obviously wayyyy too incompetent to deal with it
I am not seeing a lot about how to replace single ridge caps. Anyone got a video?
I have got about 160 on my roof and that's going to cost $500. I think I'm better off patching with roof tar and trying to get another 10 years out of this roof.
You pull them off, cover old holes up with tar, put new on and gently bend up the ones next to it a little so you can nail them in. Need to nail in about an inch up from edges. If you can't find people doing it look up installing a roof anchor and see if they show how to replace the ridge cap.
Welp this is what I went with.
Yeah, man, Thats fine. just do it good and proper, and in the next few years pull the trigger on the big job when you can. Don't push it too far if you have bad winter months.
Flex seal to the rescue.
I unironically used it once at a resin plant in a cooling tower because spray from the water hitting a fan was hitting a hole. Water was running down the outside and freezing so they were afraid the wall was going to collapse.
Anon, just buy a roll of aluminum flashing, bend it in half and glue it on.
>how long have I got
Until it rains next.
Easy fix, get it done.
I tried to make one from a regular shingle I cut down and heated but it still cracked. I probably need to bend it over something round like a pipe.
Jesus that's a fricking dimensional single you idiot. You need the regular 3 tab