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What a roof quote should contain
The line items that separate a real quote from a number on headed paper.
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Three questions, up to three contractors, nothing charged.
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No provider in Montclair is taking requests through this service yet. We are lining them up, and yours is kept until one can.
- Nobody gets your details yet. Your request stays with us and is not passed to any company.
- One email when someone can help. When a provider covering your area can take it on, we email you once and ask whether you want that company, by name, to contact you.
- Deleted after 90 days. If nobody can take it on, or you do not say yes, your contact details are deleted 90 days after your request.
- You decide, or you do not. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to pay us.
Nobody will call you about this request unless you say yes to a company by name.
A total is not a quote
A single figure tells you nothing about what you are buying. A quote worth comparing lists what is being removed, what is going on, and what happens when something unexpected turns up.
The lines to look for
Tear-off and how many layers. Decking replacement rate per sheet. Underlayment type and where ice-and-water goes. Drip edge. Valley treatment. Flashing — replaced or reused. Ventilation. Permit. Clean-up and disposal. Workmanship warranty and term.
Where quotes quietly diverge
Reused flashing, a thinner underlayment, no ventilation work and an open-ended decking charge will take thousands off a total without changing a single visible thing on the roof. That is where most of the spread between quotes lives.
The one clause people forget
The per-sheet decking rate. It is the only part of the job nobody can measure before the tear-off starts, and it is the reason fixed prices stop being fixed on the second morning.
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Free, no obligation, and your details go to no company until you say yes.