Shingle

http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2010/08/roofer_closes_shelby_office_am.html

Sounds a little far fetched. Most of the respectabe "business" types here in the GOD Fearing Great Midwest Main Street America w/ much higher Moral Standards than those East/ West Coast types, are simply committing common fraud, with the help of their homeowner co-conspirators. No real need for the SS

certainteed makes carriage house,and I think GAF may have something in the camelot line

Try IKO Royal Victorian, does Certain teed still make the Carriage House?

I have used the Inspire on 4 jobs, found them easy to work with,just wish they had more selection of widths, on a gable to gable install, you have to watch that you do not end up with a very small piece on the gable end.If they had more sizes, they would look even more realistic. we use a cordless skilsaw for valley and hip cuts,they do not cut well with a knife in the cold. you can gun nail them to a plywwod deck, but should hand nail to re-roof over boards. If going over boards, make sure the deck is smooth, they will telegraph any uneveness The past 2 jobs, we used a mixture of colours, one colour on a large roof is blaah you can also make hip and ridge from lead coated copper, or bright copper, to give an old world look. your labour should be around the same as tapersawn shakes,. the turrent should go well, with proper layout, as all the pieces are the same size and thickness, you will have to angle cut each one on both sides, should be able to precut row or two at a time.

Raise the labor price UP, in my opinion. It is not going to take you much time to eat up $24,000.00 especially with the drive time. What are you doing for scaffold? You will want it. You need to figure about $700.00 a square for the turret, at least! Even though they bend, you are going to want to cut them to the shape and that is going to take a bit of time. Punch in "conical roofing" on your computer, and you can read an article I wrote on how to roof one. There is one other way to do it that will leave the surface a bit rougher. Email me if you need any answers. Old School

Labor for less? The only step your removing is the interlaced felt and your dealing with a new product that may present unsuspected problems and slow the job, even doing it for the same price you could end up making less for your time there then you had originally figured.

The turret is round and these shingles do flex a bit. They also have 1/4" spacer tabs so it makes it even more idiotproof and yes the website states that 45 degrees is the low temp for install. Being that the job is in S. Wisconsin it may have to wait till Spring. The house is new construction; 12/12 pitch w/ dormers and valleys. Only one 12 square wide open run. I was in for labor only for the wood shakes at $365 p/s. Depending on whether he wants them installed a 6" ttw or 7.5 Im leaning at keeping the price the same but he's mentioned that the labor for install should be less (65 sq.- drive time 1 hour one way) Any optnions? Thanks in advance----------------------------------H

Personally I believe about 10% of what companies talk about in their websites!

"Strength and durability are achieved using an exclusive blend of virgin resins and natural limestone that has been compression-molded"

that's from thier website, I wonder if they are as flexible as some of the others since they appear to be made from a stone blend instead of a plastic or rubber like most

When you say a "turret" do you mean a round one or a segmented one? We have never put on the Inspire tiles, but have put on the EcoStar which are about exactly the same thing. With the Ecostar, you have to "prebend" then so that they lay flat. Supposedly the Inspire are "pre-bent" It should go a bit faster than installing wood shakes. They are slippery when they get wet, but they are light and easy to apply. Make sure and space them, as they don't want to be butted together.

If you are going to do it in the cold weather, it may present a problem. We put the EcoStar on in the winter and we had to keep them warm before putting them on. We also "pre-sorted them in a warm garage and only took out enough for each day so that we could better control it. We found it worked best to let them extend over the rakes and then strike a line and cut them off nice and straight with a skilsaw when we were finished with the side. You can cut them with a knife, but it is tough; especially when they are not warm. We hand nailed everything so that we could perfectly control how hard the nails went in. I know that they say you can gun nail them, but we didn't Good luck!

---I bought a Bumpa shingle conveyer last June for one ugly shake job. We haven't used it since but I am glad to have it as it could make bidding another such roof easier. ---It is a definite 2 man operation...and I mean the set up...The thing weighs over 200 lbs and when opened up it takes 2 people to manage it. It has a 37 foot reach which is quite nice. It is electric and completely silent when running. There is a remote controller that is used by the guy receiving the bundles which is handy if you need to stop. ---Works like a charm. It takes 2 people to load it on my pickup ladder rack for transportation. I suppose if you are Magilla Gorilla you could load it yourself. Lanny>>>

I see I got you stuttering there, ay Mike? LOL.

Ed>>>

Try this.

http://www.liftconveyor.com/

This is a new name for Lift conveyor, the old guy that was always holding the conveyor (the founder) passed away a couple of months back. I'm glad to see that the company forges on.>>>

You will like the photo/video much more on this one though.

http://www.shingleelevator.com/index.cfm

http://www.shingleelevator.com/index.cfm

Ed

edit: Forget about the other link, this is the one for the eyes.....

http://www.shingleelevator.com/index.cfm/gigi/

http://www.shingleelevator.com/index.cfm/gigi/

They say her name is Gigi

Ed

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