{"id":48800,"date":"2010-09-21T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=48800"},"modified":"2010-09-21T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T09:45:47","slug":"roof-replacemen-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/roof-replacemen-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Roof Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi All, Our Roof was ripped off in the tornado last week. We are in the process of working with the insurance company to replace it. It will be a full rip-off and replacement as 2\/3 of the roof is literally gone.<\/p>\n

I have had 4 Roofer’s come by and all have mentioned different things.
\n1. Material. I am hearing TPO and SBS. They have not really given reasons why one is better than the other. One person said TPO gives me an energy star rating and a tax credit, but I have heard other issues with bad installations of TPO (it is heat welded together).
2. Insulation: There was not one bit of insulation under the old roof. 1 person said Roll R20 insulation in yourself when it is open and then put Tyvek over that. Another said screw foam insulation over the new plywood base.
Another said that the house absolutely needs that empty space in between roof and top floor ceiling to “breathe” and if I put R20 in the top floor would be very hot in the warm months.<\/p>

Can anyone help me sort out the reality here?
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Hi All, Our Roof was ripped off in the tornado last week. We are in the process of working with the insurance company to replace it. It will be a full rip-off and replacement as 2\/3 of the roof is literally gone. I have had 4 Roofer’s come by and all have mentioned different things….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5028,"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-48800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roofers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/roof-replacemen-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Roof Replacement","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/roof-replacemen-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/roof-replacemen-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Roofers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"remyching"}],"creator":["remyching"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-09-21T09:45:23Z","datePublished":"2010-09-21T09:45:23Z","dateModified":"2010-09-21T09:45:47Z"},"rendered":"