Cost for new roof

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I know asking how much something will cost is like asking how long a piece of string is, but on this occasion I have no idea and I am usually pretty good at guessing costs when we have work done. So here goes..

How much for a new roof roughly? We are a detached Edwardian in South East London and have old english clay tiles. Have a leaking section when the rain is driving and had a look at roof and thinking we may be at the end of its current life. We have a few cracked tiles but think the underlay (felt) is split as water comes through in one area to the bedroom ceiling.

If you have had similar then what did you pay? Guess we have to add the cost of full scaffolding too.

Thanks if you got this far

No help from me sorry but bumping this as I think a new roof may be on the cards for me too this year!

We have a quote for ours, 4 bed house, for approx £14k & vat. This includes concrete tiles, roof membrane, timber battens, soffit strip, felt eaves support, stripping existing roof, concrete ridge tiles, dry ridge and hip system, valley leadwork, lead flashing, equipment hire and skip hire.

We are Surrey, btw.

We paid around £14,000 for our detached Victorian house in East Sussex but that was 7 years ago

Scaffolding will indeed be a big cost. We really shopped around for that and paid something like £2,750 including VAT for two weeks' hire last Summer. That was three sides, two storeys of a sizeable Victorian semi.

Can't help with roofing costs but bear in mind that some of your undamaged tiles can be sold on for reclamation purposes if you decide to renew.

We've been given a guide price of between £18k-£20k for stone.
One quote came back at £28k

We’ve paid £2500 for scaffolding for a five bed detached house in the midlands.

We are supplying materials which are coming in around £5000 (inc lats, membrane, nails, lead, fibreglass valleys and some reclaimed slates) and labour costs £4000.

We got three quotes, the labour alone varied between £3000 and £7500.

We have a lot of valleys in our roof and to do them in lead would have added thousands so we’ve gone with fibreglass.

We could have saved a fair bit if we’d had cheaper (concrete) tiles but we wanted to stick with materials that looked like the original (except the valleys but these are all on the sides and back so not visible from the front) we are reusing some of the existing tiles and have bought a few thousand extra reclaimed.

That's great, thanks for the guide. Some variation there but roughly sort of prices I was thinking 10-20 grand. Wanted a rough idea as I reckon we get a hefty extra added by some builders to a lot of quotes due to being in a perceived affluent area. Honestly we once had a builder quote £28 000 to plaster 3 rooms and a hall.

We paid 6 thousand about 6 years ago, smallish 3 bed semi in the Midlands.

My sister in law lives in Greenwich and had her roof done last year and was very pleased especially as they were the cheapest quote so was a bit of a gamble but it paid off as she said they were brilliant I can get the name for you if you want?

fuck me. ours needs to be done completely and will be over 10K. We share the cost with the flats downstairs (this is in the deeds so legally they have to) but they don't think it needs to be done. We are getting nowhere...