No problems. I weaved 50 year onto my roof a few years ago. Still look like new.

 

Thanks, an opinion that I trust:thumbsup:
Would you happen to know the name of their 30yr?

 

No. TO be honest, I only expect 1/2 life from any brand nowadays. I figured the 50 would get me 30 or so.

 

Thanks guys. I think this guy is selling Prestique High Definition. Other post should have said "GAF 25yr lasted 30".
Well that all puts my mind at ease, guess I need another thread for my customer's problem.

I get several a year. Most are HO's that are handy.

I'm sure that took a few years to get going, I've got to start something soon. Looking mostly to appeal to DIY remodel stuff, maybe save guys like me some grief in future years.
Thanks for the response.

 

The last 35yrs were good for 30, and they were GAF too. If they last 20 I figure I'll have other stuff to worry about when I'm 80
How does that advice/teach deal on your web site work for you? Any takers?
Have thought about something like that as age creeps up on me.
Like a Mac truck

 

Laid a few roofs with the 30 year Prestique line and didn't care for them. Last Summer my brother in law paid $40 a square for the Prestiques which were a year old. Not sure if they sat in the sun and rain but they were horrible to work with.

Slippery, unsquare ends, and slivers.

Laid one roof with their 50 year laminate and those were nice.

 

prestiques were crappy w/a lot of failures,I`d rather have GAF Timberlines

 

neolitic
I get several a year. Most are HO's that are handy. Have several ongoing 'accounts'. When they get a project ready, I get called. I'm also called before they start to discuss layout and tie-in methods and pitfalls.

I'm also called by other roof co's to either assist, or to do certain aspects of commercial and residential jobs. I wish it was the only thing I was doing. No overhead, no real exposure, and it's 99% technical, compkicated, puzzle work. Much more fun than production work.

dougger222
Sounds like they were getting wet and drying out over the year. Slippery probably means they were growing a film of something on them. I wouldn't be surprised if they rot early.

 

GAF Timberline and Elk Pristique are going the way of the Dino as of the next few months. The new product which is a hybrid of the two, but more like the Elk Prestique than the Timberline, is the generically named GAF/ELK Timberline Prestique High Definition.

 

The new product which is a hybrid of the two, but more like the Elk Prestique than the Timberline, is the generically named GAF/ELK Timberline Prestique High Definition.---haven`t seen anything like that here in new york grumpy :blink:

 

Contact your local GAF or Elk rep. It'll be coming your way eventually. Got the press release the day before I posted my reply above.

 

I havent used the elk in ages. That was back when they were still orgainic mat. they are fiberglass now?

 

most are

 

With GAF and Elk combined, maybe together they can make a decent shingle.

Dougger, they were slippery because of the loose rocks, right? The Timberlines are getting just as bad now.

It seems that the GAF and Elks around here are good and bad. Some sit around too long at the yards and go to crap before you even install them. Other times you get new fresh shingles and they aren't too bad. Only seen one time this has happened with Landmarks and that's because they seemed like they were sitting in rain water in the bag too long. This was back when they had a glue problem, but that is corrected now. Certainteed is the only company I have noticed that actually corrects a problem with their products.

 

Speaking of fresh shingles the first house i ever built with a contractor. He ordered shingles locally. At the time there was a plant nearby in Perth Amboy. It was around october and the shingles were so fresh the damn stacks were still steaming from the plant! I mean the day they were delivered to the jobsite they were still hot!! I never ever saw that happen again.

 

The Elk name will be phased out by GAF in about a year or two. I heard this from GAF by the way.

 

Oh I totally agree after they have the Elk Loyalists on board and hooked on the new product, then they will phase it out. Me personally dislike timebrlines because of their high price (so GAF could buy all these smaller companies) with zero additional quality, and Elk I always thought to be substandard flimsy shingles like owens corning... although I do think their high definitions look nice.


BMA, GAF's parent company is quickly becoming a monopoly. Look at their mergers and aquisitions within the last 7 years or so.

 

I don`t pay extra for timberline,and we don`t have metrics here either ????

 

I thought that 39 - 3/8" was kinda like a meter?

 

I by no means consider myself a roofer, but I laid somewhere in the area of 135 square of Timberlines this year without any complaints. Pretty much limited to IKO or GAF from my local yards, but can order the others. I laid 1 roof this year with the IKO and didn't like them, felt pretty flimsy