Plenty of outfits will not quote a shed. The job is too small to justify the setup, so the call gets a polite no — and homeowners tell me they heard it three or four times before they got to me. I schedule them. A shed roof is a half-day or a day, and the work is not different in kind from a house: strip it, look at the deck, dry it in, shingle it properly.
What is different is what these buildings have usually been through. An outbuilding is the thing on a property that goes longest without anyone looking at it, so the roof is often original, frequently rolled roofing, and the deck underneath has been quietly taking water for years. That is exactly why it gets torn off rather than covered over — you cannot inspect a deck through a layer you left in place.
If the house is due too, say so. The setup, the dump run and the mobilization are the fixed costs on a small roof, so an outbuilding folded into a house job costs less than the same shed done on its own.
- Full tear-off and re-roof — shed, detached garage, barn, pool house, lean-to
- Old rolled roofing stripped off, never shingled over
- Decking inspected with the roofing off, and rotted sheathing replaced
- Synthetic underlayment, starter course, and proper drip edge
- Architectural shingles — the same product that goes on a house
- Ridge cap, and old ridge vent closed back in where it is failing
- Leak and flashing repair where a re-roof is not warranted yet
- Rotted fascia, soffit and trim on the same visit
- Storm damage documented for a detached-structure insurance claim
- Old roofing bagged on tarps, and the site left clean
- The NBD Pledge on the work — NBD backed