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Roof Cost Estimator for Cape Coral and Southwest Florida
Put in your square footage and see the range a roof like yours usually falls in. A range, not a quote.
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What would a new roof on this house cost?
Your roof is bigger than the floor beneath it — it is pitched, it hangs past the walls, and material is lost to cuts. Put in what you know and this does that arithmetic.
Roofs this size, in this covering
This is not a quote. It is arithmetic, and arithmetic does not climb a ladder. A real number comes from measuring your roof and looking at what is on it.
What the range does not know
- How many layers of covering have to come off, and what the dump fees are for them.
- What the decking looks like underneath. Nobody can see the decking until the covering is off. This is the honest unknown in every re-roof, and it is where two quotes that looked close end up thousands of dollars apart.
- How the roof meets its walls, chimneys, vents and skylights, and whether that flashing can be reused or has to be rebuilt.
- What the current code requires for your address, your wind zone and your permit authority.
We will come and look, measure the roof properly, tell you what is actually going on up there, and put a real number in writing. No cost and no obligation.
How this is worked out
- Footprint. Living square footage is divided by the number of stories, which gives the area the roof has to cover in plan. An attached garage is added on top of that at 220 square feet per car space, ten feet by twenty-two, because a garage is under roof but not under air and so never appears in the square footage on a property record.
- Eaves. A one-foot overhang is added around the whole perimeter. The perimeter is estimated from the footprint on the assumption of a house half again as long as it is wide, which is close enough for most Florida single-family plans.
- Pitch. The plan area is multiplied by the slope factor for the pitch, which is the length of the rafter divided by its run. A 5 / 12 roof is
1.083; a 12 / 12 roof is1.414. - Waste. A buffer is added for cuts, starter, ridge and the offcuts that never make it onto the roof — ten percent on a typical roof, less on a simple one, more on a complex one.
- Squares. The total is divided by one hundred and rounded up, because material is bought in whole squares.
Every one of those steps is an assumption about a house this calculator has never seen. A measured roof is the only number worth signing.
A new roof in Cape Coral and Southwest Florida is priced by the square — one square being one hundred square feet of roof surface — and the roof is always bigger than the floor beneath it. Installed cost generally runs $500 to $750 a square for architectural shingle, $800 to $1,100 for 5V crimp metal, $1,200 to $1,700 for standing seam metal, $1,000 to $1,500 for concrete tile and $1,500 to $2,200 for clay tile. A 2,000 square foot single-story house with a two-car garage and a 5/12 pitch comes to about 32 squares. The estimator below does that arithmetic for your house.
Those are ranges, and they are ranges on purpose. What a roof actually costs depends on things that cannot be seen from a desk — how many layers have to come off, what the decking is like underneath, and what the roof has to be flashed around. The number below is a starting point for a conversation, not a price we are offering you.
Limited time offer
A four point or wind mitigation inspection, on us
Have your roof replaced by LMS and we include either a four point home inspection or a wind mitigation inspection at no charge. Both are the reports your insurer asks for, and both normally cost you money.
Call today and we hold it for sixty days. Go and get your other quotes. That is what we would do. If you come back to us inside sixty days, the offer is still yours — we are not going to pretend it expires on a date we made up to hurry you.
Applies to a full roof replacement contracted with LMS Construction & Roofing, LLC. One inspection per property. What a four point inspection covers · what a wind mitigation inspection covers.
Why the answer is a range and not a number
Anyone can give you a number. The question is whether the number survives contact with the roof. Four things move it after the estimate is written, and none of them can be known from the street: how many layers of old covering are up there, what the decking is like once it is uncovered, how many penetrations and wall junctions have to be flashed individually, and what current code requires that the old roof did not have. Two quotes thousands apart are usually two different jobs, and the cheaper one is often the one with those unknowns left out.
What the estimator is actually doing
It takes the living area of the house, divides it by the number of stories to get the footprint, adds about 220 square feet for each garage space under the same roof, and adds a twelve-inch eave around the perimeter. Then it multiplies by the slope factor for the pitch — a 5/12 roof has about 1.083 times the surface of the flat area under it — and adds eight to fifteen percent for waste and cuts depending on how complicated the roof is. That total, divided by one hundred and rounded up, is the number of squares. If you do not know the pitch it runs the sum twice, at 4/12 and at 8/12, and shows you the wider answer.
What to do with the number
Use it to sanity-check the quotes you are given. If a quote comes in far under the bottom of this range, ask what has been left out of it. If it comes in far over the top, ask what your roof has that a normal roof does not — there may be a good answer. Either way the useful question is not what the number is, but what scope is behind it.
We will come and measure the roof properly and put a real figure in writing. No cost and no obligation — call 239-414-9100.
Straight answers
Questions about roof estimates
How much does a new roof cost in Cape Coral, Florida?
It depends on the size of the roof and the covering. Installed cost per square (one square is one hundred square feet of roof surface) generally runs $500 to $750 for architectural shingle, $800 to $1,100 for 5V crimp metal, $1,200 to $1,700 for standing seam metal, $1,000 to $1,500 for concrete tile, and $1,500 to $2,200 for clay tile. A typical 2,000 square foot single-story house with a two-car garage and a 5/12 pitch works out to roughly 32 squares. Those are ranges rather than quotes: the real number depends on what is found once the old covering is off.
What is a roofing square?
A square is one hundred square feet of roof surface. Roofing is priced and ordered by the square rather than by the square foot, and the number of squares on a roof is always higher than the living area of the house beneath it, because the roof is pitched, it overhangs the walls, and material is lost to cuts and waste.
How do I work out how many squares my roof is?
Take the living area, divide it by the number of stories, and add about 220 square feet for each garage space under the same roof. Add an allowance for the eave overhang around the perimeter, multiply by the pitch factor for the slope (a 5/12 pitch multiplies the plan area by about 1.083), then add eight to fifteen percent for waste and cuts. Divide by one hundred and round up. The estimator on this page does that arithmetic for you.
Is the figure from this estimator a guaranteed price?
No. It is a range produced by arithmetic, and arithmetic does not climb a ladder. It is not a quote, not an offer, and not a price guarantee. It cannot know how many layers of covering have to come off, what condition the decking is in underneath, what flashing and penetrations the roof has, or what current code requires for your address. A real number comes from measuring the roof and looking at what is on it.
Does the estimate include tear-off and decking repair?
The ranges are for the installed covering on a normal re-roof. Tear-off of a single layer is usually part of that; additional layers are not. Replacing rotten or soft decking cannot be priced before the covering is off, because nobody can see it until then. Ask how replacement decking is charged before you sign anything, ours or anyone else's.
Do you charge for a roof estimate?
No. We come and look at the roof, tell you what we find, and put it in writing. There is no cost and no obligation. Call 239-414-9100.
Which areas do you estimate roofs in?
Cape Coral, Fort Myers, North Fort Myers, Bonita Springs, Estero, Lehigh Acres, Sanibel, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda and Naples, across Lee, Charlotte and Collier counties. On some projects we travel further, north through the Daytona Beach area.
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