Cedar Shingle Tear Off Question

Seab1209

I am bidding on a roofing job. The roof that is on the house is about 40 year old cedar shake/shingle (not sure the difference). The bottom edge is about 1" thick if that helps. My question is What is the volume when we tear them off? How many squares per dumpster? There is a layer of felt between each row.
We are replacing them with 30 year AR shingles.
Thanks

knucklehead

Let me take a wild guess. ...3 dumpsters

johnk

Roughly 1 yrd per sq.

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MrRoofer

Paper between sounds like shakes to me. This tends to equate slightly more volume than cedar shingles, depending upon how you tear them off and put em in the bin .

Bidding on a roofing job?

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A W Smith

don't they make feather boards anymore? John k is right. About a yard a square but only if you are neat loading the dumpster. Ive managed to almost fill a 20 with a ten square farmhouse roof being careless. Cedar shakes fluff easily. The felt between the courses also tells me theirs a solid roof deck under your cedar and not skip sheathing. Which is good. All mine were always skip sheathed. which is a pain somewhat but ease in climbing around a steep roof.

Last one I did snuck up on me. I had contracted to remove an asbestos shingle roof dating back to the 1930s. I thought I was careful in examining the roof from the exterior as there was no access from the finished attic in this very old two story. I peeled back the edge to reveal what I thought was a 5/4 deck. When the abatement sub contractor was done. this was revealed

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Ed the Roofer

Correct. 20 square fits in a 20 yarder.

Ed

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Seab1209

Thanks for the information. Don't usually do roofing but when there's nothing else I will take what I can get. Never had to tear off more than about a square of cedar so I wasn't sure how many dumpsters to put in the quote. Once again thanks for the help. Matthew

Ed the Roofer

Thats if it is thrown in haphazardy.

It can stack and settle down quite a bit.

Whenever I need more room, I just take my dump truck for a short drive over pot holes to shake the load down.

There will be a lot of air space in the pile.

You get much more room too, if the dumpster is parked far enough away from the house and someone throws a match in the load.

Ed

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outlaw

Great!!!

Another "jack of all trades" trying to be a roofer because he can't get anythung else to do.

Rightonroofing

Stripping shakes is a pain. On strip sheating try working from the side with a wide shovel blade with a serrated edge. Sometimes you can clear 2 or 3 rows at a time. Clearing the nails is the worst part.

Dave