Found this on DIY site

$15,500 for a new 6' board on board wood fence - did it for $3,200 WITH a post every 4' instead of their 8'.

$6,500 for a new "normal size bathroom" - did it for $2,200 AND upgraded everything!

$35,000 for a new roof - cheapest of the 3 estimates - doing it right now for $8,500 AND upgraded all the materials!

Don't be scared or lazy - TRY! I do BETTER work myself and would NEVER trust a "contractor" - I have SEEN their work AND the "costs".

There is a REASON why contractors drive $60,000 trucks - but you never see them working - you only see the Mexicans.

Right on Willie

Yeah, the $35,000 sounds fishy. That would be like an 85 sq. roof job. I can't see anyone that has enough money to own a house that big doing a roof job at all much less an 85 sq. one.

It was the last part that stuck out to me though. The guy has a point there. These days you don't need to be a roofer anymore just sell or chase insurance and send the mexican "subs" to do the dirty work.

Or maybe the three contractors are pricing a roof system, venting and replacing lots of rotted wood (unlikely going 3 for 3 on that!)

Only other possibility is that roofers somewhere are actually making money..... :S

This is how a $35k roof bid would go with 3/4 of the roofers in my area: $17,500= materials, disposal and all other costs except labor.

So the person that wrote this is full of crap saying he is getting material for $8,500

RL one of the cheeepest contractors 'round here, buys at pretty much wholesale (truckload) prices so even they would not be near $8,500 in material on that job.

If they priced @ $35k they'd prolly have over $17k in wholesale materials. I don't see DIYer getting their kind of deals :laugh:

I WISH my competition were pricing $35k residential roofs......more like $3,5000 or whatever Exactimate "pays" ($4,000?) B)