The guy who is replacing my old leaky skylights tells me our roof is in bad shape. We had a new “rubber” roof (I’m told it’s not really rubber) put on 14 years ago, and it is definitely showing wear–we’ve had some leaks, and some of the flashing was done poorly in the first place. The skylight guy says he can feel ice crackling under the roofing surface as he walks around. He says we could patch the bad spots, or put on another whole layer of “rubber”– but at this point he recommends taking all the old roof layers off and starting from scratch–otherwise, he says, we’ll have new cracks opening up. The price of a new layer is $350 per sq foot; the price of ripping it all off and then putting on a new one is $1000 per sq foot. Generally I like to do things thoroughly and properly rather than covering over old problems, but I wonder if it’s worth the extra expense. Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The guy who is replacing my old leaky skylights tells me our roof is in bad shape. We had a new “rubber” roof (I’m told it’s not really rubber) put on 14 years ago, and it is definitely showing wear–we’ve had some leaks, and some of the flashing was done poorly in the first place….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-40107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roofers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/01\/new-roof-needed\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tear Off Old Roof?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/01\/new-roof-needed\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/01\/new-roof-needed\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Roofers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"frabjousday"}],"creator":["frabjousday"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-01-13T13:43:13Z","datePublished":"2010-01-13T13:43:13Z","dateModified":"2010-01-18T11:10:17Z"},"rendered":"