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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Wish I was as enterprising as you are. Unfortunately we are a young inexperienced couple and been completely ripped off with this property, which will cost us our life savings to fix. We probably saying goodbye to private schooling for our kids or any type of holiday or car upgrades for the next...
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Eish i have no clue. I'm trying to piece together this puzzle. So from what I gather there were no building regulations 50 years ago (I could be wrong), when the regulations came into effect in 1977, the rules were set etc. And so now we have a 50 year house with a 13 degree pitched roof on a...
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Wow ok I didn't know that. I read on another thread that its better to go to Chamberlain and get a quote on all the material costs, buy those and find a company who would just do the labour bit. So considering all options... thank you for your input
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Thank you for this. Will do.
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Not sure what the law was 50 years ago, but both the insurance assessor and the universal roofing assessor said that the building regulations re roof pitch came into effect long after this house was built. And that the 13 degree pitch of my roof is a construction defect as deemed by current...
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    That sounds more reasonable. Thank you
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    I also thought it was excessive hence trying to do more research on this. Our house surface area under roof is 220sqm which would make a pitched roof 280sqm or thereabouts... thank you for your input in the matter.
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    It's just the battens (thin long pieces of wood) not the trusses. Yes we are currently replacing the rotten pieces of wood, resetting the tiles and then doing an eco rubber coat to waterproof, hopefully giving us some time to save up for a new roof.
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Underlay and insulation are all intact and fine, but because of the low pitch the tiles moved and the wood rotted over the years. Hence trying to fix the wood, reset the tiles and do a liquid rubber coating which buys us time to come up with the money for a new roof altogether. Will inflate...
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    I should also add that we've decided to repair the sags, replace the rotted broken wood, re-lay the tiles and waterproof with eco rubber (which is what the insurance assessor recommended) as a short term solution (5 years), and then use this time to save up for a new roof. So theoretically we...
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    Cost of replacing a roof

    Hi there. I'm looking around for a ballpark figure for replacing a roof (so that we don't get scammed) and general advice on below. Long story: We bought a house a year ago and have experienced some roof leaks and several latent defects which were not disclosed to us. We reached out to the...
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    Cost of new corrugated roof installation

    Please PM me details as well, would really appreciate it. Thanks
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    Cost of new corrugated roof installation

    Please Pm me details of the company you used if based in Gauteng. Thank you
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