El Monte
Shingle Roof Replacement in El Monte: what actually fails
What is under the shingle decides the price, and in the oldest settlement in the valley that could be almost anything. Skip sheathing on the earliest stock, board sheathing on the post-war bungalows, plywood on recent infill -- three different decks, three different prices, and none of them visible from the street.
The variable that decides a shingle price here is what is under it. On the oldest El Monte stock the deck can be skip sheathing -- spaced boards laid for wood shake -- which a modern covering cannot be nailed into reliably and which has to be overlaid or replaced first. On a post-war bungalow it is board sheathing, and on recent infill it is plywood.
- How many roofs are actually on the parcel
- Whether anything habitable now sits under a garage roof
- Deck type -- skip sheathing, board or plywood
- Where tile can be stacked, if a relay is on the table
