Labor Price Help

Patrick

We are fairly new to roofing, we generally use 30 year shingles on all of our jobs, I am pricing out a job that will use 50-80 year shingles, Does anyone have a rough idea of how much time I should expect this to add to the job due to the weight? Or a suggestion as to how much EXTRA I should add to my regular labor price by the square? Thanks

theroofinggod

25-50 More For Walkable Roof ,depends On What It Is, The Pitch,etc

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PA woodbutcher

How are you getting them on the roof? Ladder lift or booming them up. Three bundles per square for 30 year....6 bundles per square for "lifetime" I figure an extra $10 per bundle. You have the little things like cutting the heavier shingle, extra packages to open not much time per bundle, but now theres lots of them

Patrick

That was really my questions is on average the percentage of extra time it takes to do all those little things. We have a gas shingle lift, but we usually just use the new guy shingle lifting system because its quieter

PA woodbutcher

and if the "new guy lift" isn't quieter work him harder. I usually don't worry to much about the noise. With the guns going and the compressor running it gets noisey anyways. I leave one man on the ground doing nothing but cleaning up, cutting starter grids, loading shingles on the lift etc, etc, etc. He is usually the busiest man on the job. He really can't be the new guy on the job because he has to anticipate what everyone else is going to need and go from one end of the house run to the other so no one is idle on the roof waiting on something, ie drip edge, shingles, felt, the tape that rolled off the roof.

I don't really have a percentage, but the doubling of the material price I think would be too high and the $10.00 a bundle seems to be working.