Nobody should have to guess whether a figure on a quote is sensible. So this guide puts the published national numbers for a full re-roof in one place, names where each came from, and then explains the things that make a roof in and around Stroud land at the top or bottom of a range. It is about the price of replacing a covering, not about whether you should. If you are still weighing that up, start with how to decide between repair and replacement.
All the ranges below are typical UK figures from third-party cost guides, with the source and date given. They are not Supreme Roofing prices. Typical ranges go up before anyone visits. Once we have surveyed, the written quote gives every cost its own figure, from the scaffold through to the final making good, so you can follow each pound. The wider service is described on our roof replacement page.
The national ranges for a whole-house re-roof
Two cost guides give the clearest picture. MyBuilder's new roof guide, updated 21 August 2026, gives £5,000 to £12,000 as the typical full re-roof. It splits that by shape: £5,000 to £8,000 for a gable-ended house (two sloping sides, a flat triangle of wall at each end) and £8,000 to £12,000 for a hipped house (all four sides slope).
Checkatrade's roof replacement guide, updated October 2026, gives a wider spread. It reports a UK average of about £8,000, with most jobs between £4,000 and £19,000. For a hipped roof it quotes £9,250 to £18,000, or £145 to £285 per m². For a gable roof it quotes £7,000 to £16,250, or £110 to £260 per m². Those Checkatrade figures exclude VAT.
| Item | Typical UK range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Full re-roof, gable | £5,000 to £8,000 | MyBuilder, 2026 |
| Full re-roof, hipped | £8,000 to £12,000 | MyBuilder, 2026 |
| Hipped, per m² | £145 to £285 | Checkatrade, October 2026 |
| Gable, per m² | £110 to £260 | Checkatrade, October 2026 |
The two guides disagree at the top end, and that is useful rather than awkward. A narrow band such as £5,000 to £8,000 describes a plain roof with a common covering. The wide band tells you that complicated roofs, premium coverings and awkward access can double the figure. Where your own roof sits depends on the next few sections.
Reading a quote line by line: scaffold, labour, waste
A re-roof price is a sum of parts, and the national guides price some of them separately.
Scaffold
Scaffold is the first line on almost every roof job, because no one can strip a roof safely from a ladder. MyBuilder puts it at about £1,125 for a typical house. Checkatrade gives £700 to £1,300. A terrace with one front and one back elevation sits near the lower end; a detached house with a full wrap, or a gable end with a long drop, pushes it up.
Labour
MyBuilder quotes labour of £50 to £130 per m², and a roofer's day rate of £250 to £300. For slate it gives a slater's day rate of £200 to £300. A day rate is only half the story: the number of days depends on the roof's area, the shape and how many people can work on it at once.
Disposal
Taking the old covering away is a real cost, and it belongs on the quote. MyBuilder shows disposal between £100 and £1,000. The gap is wide because it follows the weight and type of what comes off. Heavy concrete tiles and old stone cost more to carry than a lightweight sheet. Clearing the site and carrying the waste off are ours to do, and they appear on the quote as a single line of their own.
When two quotes are far apart, compare the lines, not the totals. A cheaper total with no scaffold line, or with disposal left out, is not cheaper.
Gable or hipped: why the shape moves the price
The MyBuilder split between gable and hipped shows the shape matters before any material is chosen. A hipped roof has sloping hips, the diagonal ridges that run down to the corners, as well as the main ridge. Each hip needs its own line of cut tiles or slates and a fixed hip covering. Each one also adds waste, because the covering has to be trimmed to the angle.
A hipped house therefore has more edges to finish for the same floor area. It also has more length of ridge and hip to cover and fix mechanically, since the 2014 revision of BS 5534 stopped relying on mortar alone to hold those pieces. That is the main reason Checkatrade's hipped range sits above its gable range.
Other shape factors
Dormers, chimneys, valleys and roof windows each add labour in the form of lead, flashings and cutting. A valley is the internal gutter where two slopes meet, and it takes more skill than a plain run of roof. A single chimney stack needs flashings and often a tray; a terrace may have several. None of these is expensive on its own. Together they explain why two houses of the same footprint can differ by thousands.
Pitch matters too, though less obviously. A steeper roof has more surface than its footprint suggests, and it is slower and more careful to work on. Quoting from the plan area alone underestimates it, which is why a survey measures the slopes themselves.
Choosing the covering: concrete, clay, slate and stone
The covering is the biggest single choice you control. Cost guides give ranges for some materials and not others, so here is what the published sources say.
MyBuilder's slate guide puts a slate re-roof at £100 to £180 per m² installed. Welsh slate runs £140 to £180 per m², Spanish slate £100 to £130 per m². It also prices a semi with a new Spanish slate roof at £7,000 to £10,000. For stone slate, Checkatrade's slate cost guide, updated 2026, puts the figure at roughly £160 to £210 per m². The guide adds that origin, new against reclaimed stone and your location all move the figure. It is a UK-wide number rather than a Cotswold one, so a stone roof here is priced after the survey, where the stone, the access and the condition of the timbers each get their own line.
| Covering | Typical installed range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish slate | £100 to £130 per m² | MyBuilder, 2026 |
| Welsh slate | £140 to £180 per m² | MyBuilder, 2026 |
| Stone slate | £160 to £210 per m² | Checkatrade, 2026 |
Concrete and clay tiles vary too much by product to sit in one range here. Their price comes from the specific tile you choose and appears on your itemised quote. What matters now is that covering choice also changes the weight on the roof, which affects timber and regulation, and the lifespan you can expect. Typical lifespans, with the sources that disagree on them, are covered in our guide to re-roofing materials.
Stone and slate roofs around Stroud
Much of the district is old stone and slate, and that changes the sums. Stone slate is heavy: Cotswold District Council's technical guidance records roughly 1,000 kg of stone slate on every 10 m² of roof. A roof that has carried that for generations has timbers built for it. If you moved to a lighter covering there would be less load; moving the other way, to a heavier one, would need a structural check, because a covering 15 per cent or more heavier needs Building Regulations approval.
That guidance also records that, on a stone roof taken down for re-laying, about half the slates are commonly found perished. So the bill for a stone re-lay is part labour (sorting, grading and laying slates in diminishing courses, longest at the eaves and shortest at the ridge) and part new stone to replace what cannot go back. How much new stone cannot be known until the old roof is down and sorted, which is one reason we tell you the number is priced on survey.
Like for like
On an older house, like is replaced with like: stone returns as stone, slate as slate. For a listed house or a home in one of the district's 41 conservation areas, a different material may need consent, and the planning team at the council is who to ask. Swapping to something cheaper is not always an option, and where it is allowed, the saving is often smaller than the difference in appearance.
Steep lanes, terraces and access
The Five Valleys are steep. Many streets are narrow, many terraces climb the hillside, and some houses are reached on foot by steps. Access is a real cost driver, and it should appear on your quote before the work starts, not after the lorry fails to turn in the lane.
Here is what we look at in the survey.
- Where the skip or grab lorry can stand. If it cannot get close, waste has to be carried further by hand, which takes labour hours.
- Where materials can be delivered. A pallet of tiles that has to be split and hoisted in stages costs more to move than one that can be craned straight to the roof.
- What the scaffold has to cross. A sloping yard, a retaining wall or a neighbour's garden changes the number of lifts and the boards needed.
- Whether a road licence is involved. Scaffold on a pavement or a lane may need the council's permission, and that is a cost to anticipate.
Our guide to the signs that a roof is due for replacement covers what to look for, and the survey records the access problems in the same visit. Photographs of your roof and its approach are part of what you receive.
Timber repairs, building control and VAT
Three items sit outside the covering price, and each can change the total.
Timber repairs
With the old covering lifted, the battens (the timber strips the tiles or slates hang from) and sometimes the rafters are in plain view. Battens that have rotted are simply renewed. Rafters, wall plates and other structural timbers are another matter: if they are decayed, the repair is carpentry, and no national guide can price a fault in a particular roof. We therefore show timber repairs as priced on survey. In the loft we photograph what we can see before the work starts, so any extra is measured against evidence. See also our guide to replacing roof timbers.
Building control
A full re-roof goes past the Planning Portal's 50 per cent roof threshold, so a Building Regulations application normally applies, and insulation may have to be improved at the same time. The thresholds are explained in our guide to the 25% and 50% rules, and the insulation side is in the Part L guide. If the job is notifiable we take the paperwork on for you, and the building control fee and any extra insulation show up as costs on the quote.
VAT
Roofing work is normally standard-rated, which means VAT at 20 per cent, per HMRC's VAT Notice 708. Your quote shows VAT. Insulation fitted in a home's loft or roof void is zero-rated for VAT until 31 March 2027, though whether any part of your job qualifies is something the quote should spell out. Remember that Checkatrade's range above is before VAT while MyBuilder's guide does not set out its basis the same way, so compare like with like.