Roof, deck, fence, windows and door replacement pricing per project.
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A man in a branded polo put a level against my basement wall, made a face I am sure he practices, and wrote $14,200 on a folded brochure. I had called him about one crack. The crack ran from the floor up toward the window, thin at the top, maybe the width of a dime … Read more
The stain showed up on the upstairs hallway ceiling the morning after a March storm, about the size of a coffee saucer and the color of weak tea. Nothing was dripping. It just sat there being brown. The first roofer I called stood in my driveway for four minutes, looked up, and said I needed … Read more
It sounded like a rifle going off in the garage at 6:40 on a Tuesday morning. One flat bang, then nothing. I went out in a robe expecting a collapsed shelf and found the door crooked on its track, my car trapped behind it, and the steel coil above it split in two. The first … Read more
The pry bar went behind the casing on the second-floor bedroom window and the whole bottom corner came away in my hand like wet cake. I had budgeted a Saturday and one trip to the lumberyard. I got three weekends and a carpenter named Ray who did not laugh at me, which I appreciated. Window … Read more
Year three, north corner of my deck, on my knees with a bucket and a stiff brush. The boards had a green film on them that a hose would not touch. I bought these because the box said no sanding, no staining, no sealing. Nobody printed the word “scrub” anywhere on it. Low maintenance composite … Read more
The first bid I got for the back corner of my lot was $4,900. The second was $2,650. Same 150 feet, same four-foot fence, same lumpy yard. I sat in my kitchen with both sheets side by side for an hour before I found the difference, and it was not the fence at all. It … Read more
The crack in my driveway went from a hairline to something I could fit two fingers into over one winter. I kept telling myself it was cosmetic. Then a chunk the size of a dinner plate came loose under the mail truck, and the guy had to swerve around it, and I stood in the … Read more
The concrete around our pool started shedding like a sunburn. Little chalky flakes, first near the shallow end, then everywhere, and by the second July my kid would not walk across it barefoot at two in the afternoon. She would hop. Three quick steps to the grass, every time. That hop is what finally got … Read more
My deck told me it was rotting a full year before I listened. Third summer in this house, I stepped on the second board down from the sliding door and it flexed under my heel like a diving board. I told myself it was springy. It was soft. There is a difference, and it cost … Read more
Two summers ago I stood in my backyard holding two quotes for the same 150 feet of fence. Wood came in at $3,300. Vinyl came in at $4,600. My first reaction was the obvious one: why would anyone pay $1,300 more for a fence? Then I remembered the two weekends I spent re-staining a wood … Read more
My neighbor Dana got three siding quotes last spring and they came back at $9,200, $16,800, and $31,000. Same house. Same walls. She called me half-panicked, sure that somebody was either lowballing her into a disaster or robbing her blind. The truth was messier than either: one guy quoted vinyl, one quoted fiber cement, and … Read more
Gutter installation cost in 2026 runs $6 to $13 per linear foot for seamless aluminum. See real prices by material, home size, and DIY vs. hire.
