Having my roof reshingled

[Gizmo2]

Rip off old and put on new.
The crew showed up this morning at 7:30 with this

I told the wife I think they are going to take the house and bring it back when the new shingles are on.

Then they dangled the dumpster with it just touching the roof to stop it from swaying and strategically moved it to load all the old shingles in it.


When the dumpster was full they would lift it, swing the crane and dump it in a truck parked on the other side of the county, LOL. The dumpster has a hydraulically controlled bottom that the operator opens to dump the load. Call me old fashion but the whole deal was rather cool.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Never seen a rig like that, around here there will be a dumpster located at one location right up against the house so you can wheelbarrow them there, or if you are really lucky and have a set of forks for your tractor you make yourself a dumpbox. Thanks for showing your pictures.

 

[grsthegreat]

Yeiks...nevre seen anyone do that with a crane truck before....here they shovel it down onto tarps and walk it to the haul off can.

Imagine the devastation if that can got out of control...youd have a nice big skylight :laughing:

 

[Bird]

I'm among those who have never seen anything like that before. We had hail on several different days last month and there are lots of new roofs in my neighborhood. The adjuster for my insurance company only recommended replacing half my roof and I don't like to do any job halfway, so we'll see how the negotiations go.

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Hey Bird, let the roofing contractors talk to the adjuster. Don't know why this works, but it does.

Then you might tell the roofing contractors that your roof doesn't leak now, and if it leaks after they repair it they can anticipate either replacing the whole thing or a lawsuit. After the adjuster talks to the contractors, you have a better chance of getting replacement.

 

[DavidNPro]

Wow that is certainly cool how they fly the dumpter in. Saves the guys from having to throw it off the roof to the ground and then pick up and move into dumpster again later. Would save on their labor and their backs....

 

[Gizmo2]

So I guess I am not so old fashion, as others have not seen this either. Now I feel better.

The guy doing the roof for me does mainly commercial buildings but had agreed to do my roof. 23 square of shingle, went up 6 ft with ice shield and put 6 ft of ice shield in the valleys also, the house has four full valleys. By the time this roof leaks I'll either be dead or not care, one or the other.

 

[Gizmo2]

Wow that is certainly cool how they fly the dumpter in. Saves the guys from having to throw it off the roof to the ground and then pick up and move into dumpster again later. Would save on their labor and their backs....

Not to mention a whole lot of nails in the lawn. The crew left at 2:00 because of the extreme heat and did not want to tear up the new shingle.
The striped the whole roof put all the ice shield on and covered the rest of the roof with some kind of GAF underlayment that is no where near what the old PITA 15lb/30lb felt is, this is nice stuff.

 

[JB4310]

Wow not to many roofers have hydraulic cranes. but it would take alot of roofs to pay for that thing. compared to a couple laborers with shovels and wheel barrows, usually takes a few hours to clean up.

Can't see how that equipment can be justified, the guy must of got it cheap, or they are a big commercial roofers, trying to survive doing residential roofs. The little dumpsters are common know, I've seen them in the trade mags, I think they are self propelled and raise up to just below the gutter and are capable of dumping into a larger dumpster.

I think that dumpster would have been better placed just below the gutter or on the ground, usually when striping roofs it's easier to push everything over the edge.

We use to do residential shingle roofs long ago when we were 16-20 years old, 2-3 guys, hand nailing, carrying bundles up ladders. We were proud of ourselves if we did a roof in a week, made good money too. Now roofing is so competitive they come in with 8-10 guys with every time saving tool, shingles delivered right on top of the roof, and do an entire roof in a day or 2 including rip off.

I can not compete with that, But I do all right with specialty roof work that no one else wants to do.

JB.

 

[Bird]

Hey Bird, let the roofing contractors talk to the adjuster. Don't know why this works, but it does.

Then you might tell the roofing contractors that your roof doesn't leak now, and if it leaks after they repair it they can anticipate either replacing the whole thing or a lawsuit. After the adjuster talks to the contractors, you have a better chance of getting replacement.

That's exactly what I'm doing. The roofing contractor has a copy of the adjuster's report now.