A square is 100 square feet and a bundle is equal to 1 3 of a square.
Shake roof cost per square foot.
I would strongly recommend you hire a licensed and insured roofing contractor to perform the installation for you.
The initial cost of a cedar shake roof is already high.
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Roofing cost per square foot when calculating roofing costs per square asphalt shingles run from 350 and 500 per square metal or tin roofs costs 600 to 1 200 per square and concrete or clay costs between 1 200 and 1 800 per square.
Low cost for installation is around 3 600 and high cost is about 120 000.
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Per square foot it is about double the cost of other roofing options like asphalt shingles.
Therefore the average price of a square of shake is 630 and a bundle costs around 210.
Cedar shake roof total average cost per square foot.
Cost can add up quickly especially if you re a novice and have never attempted a cedar shake roof installation before.
That means you should expect prices from 17 000 to 26 000.
Comparing per square bundle prices of shakes the average price for shake roofing is around 6 30 per square foot.
This alone already makes a cedar shake roof expensive without even considering the wood shingle roof.
If you are replacing your current roof add 125 to 500 per roofing square for old roof removal.
For a basic project in zip code 47474 with 120 square feet the cost to install a shake roof starts at 7 56 10 14 per square foot.
The cost of a shake roof.
Expect the cedar shake roof.