When the roofing company you hire tears off your existing roof and then puts on an entirely new roof.
Shingle roof tear off.
The tear off method is exactly what it sounds like.
Many people are attracted by the idea of overlaying existing asphalt shingles especially if the price quoted is lower and the contractor seems confident you don t need to tear off your old roof.
Don t be intimidated by the toughest part of re roofing the tear off.
In this article we ll show you how to remove asphalt shingles.
An overlay roof occurs when keep your existing roof as is choosing instead to shingle on top of it.
However the truth is so many variables have to be just right in order to make it work that it s much more likely to cost you money in the end.