Hi all - My name is Aliza and I have a small goat dairy in southern oregon - I want to put a dormer in the upstairs of my 1 1/2 story farm house. What is entailed in this project? I am trying to do a materials cost estimate so I can even decide if we can do it this year. The dormer will be either one 30' dormer taking up most of the roof on the back of the house or 3 ~8' dormers. Dormers will be about 6 feet deep and just simple shed dormer on the back of the house. House is 40'long. My intention is to improve quality of life in the upstairs and gain another couple hundred square feet of useful space that is currently unusable. I know that there are many variables in my question. I am not talking about foundation support or interior wall issues. There are already two bedrooms and a shared center section upstairs.
I just want to know how to approximate the materials costs for the dormer(s). In either configuration there will be three large windows - likely 6ox4o - one for each bedroom and one for the center section. Can I figure materials costs as if I was building standard walls? Can I reuse the metal roofing that is existing or do I need to replace the 30 year old materials (they are in good condition)? Is there a benefit to doing 3 smaller dormers as opposed to one long one? I made up a story in my mind that it would be easier to do 3 separate dormers and I would have a greater chance of being able to do much less roof work that way. Roof currently has no leaks so I really dont want to replace if I dont have to...I have plenty of good experienced labor but I just need to figure out the materials costs...
Any suggestions are very welcome....
thanks in advance
aliza
www.SomeKindaWonderfulFarm.com
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