Roof Replacement in Cartersville, GA

On stock this old, the tear-off is where the job actually gets decided

A third of Cartersville's housing was built in 1979 or earlier and the Granger Hill Historic District covers two subdivisions platted in the 1930s and developed through the 1950s. On a house from that era the shingles are the least interesting part of the assembly. We expect plank decking rather than sheathing panels, and planks with gaps wide enough that a standard fastener schedule does not land where it should. We expect at least one previous layer that may have been covered rather than removed. We expect chimney flashing that was mortared into a joint instead of stepped and counter-flashed, which works until the mortar lets go. None of that is unusual and none of it is a crisis — but it is why the estimate on a house like this has a decking allowance with a stated per-sheet rate on it, and why we photograph the deck the moment it is exposed and show you before anything goes back down. Worth knowing the code position too: Georgia deletes Chapter 1 of the residential code — the permit chapter — without substitution, so whether you pull one is the City of Cartersville Building Department's call, but Georgia amends nothing at all in Chapter 9, the roof-assemblies chapter, so the technical requirements for the reroof itself apply here exactly as written.