That being said, we had a minor crisis of sorts arise yesterday. While we were meeting with our contractor to sort out some stuff, the roof guy came to look over everything. He then gave our contractor his price for our roof. We decided long ago that we wanted a metal roof. There is something about a farm house that screams "METAL ROOF BELONGS HERE!" so that was our plan. We (and our contractor) were shocked to learn the labor for the metal roof was going to be a good $200/square more than a traditional roof.
(Please note that I know I did not write "square foot" or whatever because it's not a square foot...it's called a "square" and I think it's 10x10, but I'm not even sure of that. My OCD is in overdrive that it simply says "$200/square" without a unit, but apparently, that's the way it works!)
Anyway, at that price, our roof was going to run us a good $8000 - $10,000 over what was budgeted for a roof. Now some of you may say that's not too bad, and in the general scheme of things, that may be true, but all I could think of is other things to spend that money on. And, truth be told, if I'm going to go $10,000 OVER budget, it is NOT going to be on the roof. I just can't justify that. Besides, we have a metal barn. If we want to hear the rain on a metal roof that badly, we can go stand in the barn!
Tim and I had resigned ourselves to the fact that this was just a huge compromise we were going to have to make. No metal roof. We had come to terms with it.
Then, today, Tim received a text from our contractor that a second bid came in at only $1000 over our roof budget. We can swing the $1000, especially since the framing labor came in $922 under budget! Woohoo! Metal roof it is!
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