Every price guide online is an estimate. This one is not — it is built from what our own customers were actually invoiced across Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.
Most guides will not give you a number, because they are guessing. We can give you one, because we have the invoices. Below is where our prices actually fall — all work, from a gutter clean to a full re-roof.
Where our prices fall
Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway · all job types · VAT included
A higher curve means more of our work lands at that price. Some jobs run well above the range shown — our largest to date was €29,510.
The figures above cover all our work. To compare fairly with the published price guides — which price full roof replacements only — here is replacement work on its own.
Published Irish price guides
€12,000
typical, semi-detached house
Low €7,000 · High €24,000
Our own replacement work
€8,686
average, invoiced
Low €5,108 · High €29,510
Our average full replacement comes in below the published typical figure. Our largest job sits above the published ceiling, because it was not a semi-detached house. The honest reading: we sit at the lower end of the market for replacement work, and the published guides quote the middle of a very wide range.
A typical job differs by city, and not because of the labour rate. It is the work that differs — what the housing stock is made of, how exposed it is, and how hard it is to get to.
Dublin
Our biggest jobs. Almost nothing here is a clean-and-clear — it is replacement, on larger roofs, often on terraces where scaffolding and street access cost real money before a slate is touched.
Cork
The widest mix of the four. Cast iron on the older city stock, which can often be repaired rather than replaced, and driven rain and salt air out towards Cobh and the harbour.
Galway
Very little small work. The Atlantic lifts and strips slates in events rather than gradually, so fixings and specification matter more here than anywhere else we work.
Limerick
More repair than replacement, so the middle of the market sits lower — but the top end is the highest of the four, because Limerick also brings commercial and full-replacement work.
How much of the house is involved
One elevation of guttering against the whole house is the single biggest swing on any quote.
Access
A three-storey terrace is not a bungalow. Scaffolding is often the difference between two quotes that look like the same job.
The material going back on
Natural slate costs considerably more than concrete tile, and lasts considerably longer. Both are right answers for different houses.
What is underneath
On any strip-and-recover there is a real chance of rotten battens or felt. Agree that rate before work starts, not after.
Exposure
Coastal and exposed sites need higher-spec fixings and underlay. Specifying a Galway roof like a Dublin one is how roofs fail early.
Disposal and VAT
Skips and removal are real costs. VAT at 13.5% applies on top. Both should be stated separately so you can compare like with like.
A price guide nobody can check is marketing. Here is exactly where these figures come from.
Invoices raised by Recommended Roofing and its sister company Munster Gutters for work completed for customers in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, between August 2025 and September 2026. Nothing is modelled, estimated or taken from a third party. These are prices real customers paid.
All work, of every size — gutter clearing and cleaning, gutter repair and replacement, fascia and soffit, moss treatment, roof repair, and full roof replacement, on houses and on commercial buildings. Figures are the invoiced total including VAT. Where a job was invoiced in stages, the stages are combined so one roof counts once.
The midpoint: half the work came in below that figure and half above. We use the midpoint rather than a straight average because a small number of very large roofs would otherwise drag the average above what most people actually pay.
The curve shows where prices fall, not how much work we did. We publish the shape and the price markers, not volumes.
Those guides price full roof replacements only, so comparing them against all our work — which includes gutter cleaning — would not be fair and would flatter us. The comparison uses our replacement work alone. Sources: RoofQuote.ie, CalculateRoofCost.ie and RoofCostIreland.com, 2026 editions.
Once a year, each September. This is the 2026 edition. The next update is due September 2027.
If you think a figure here is wrong, or your own quote sits well outside these ranges, tell us and we will look at it. A price guide that nobody can challenge is not worth reading.
How to cite this: Irish Roofing Price Guide 2026, by Recommended Roofing.
A typical job we invoice comes in at €2,392. A quarter of our work lands under €1,050, and three quarters under €3,575. Below €1,000 you are usually in cleaning, clearing and small repairs; above €5,000 you are into full replacement.
Published Irish price guides put a full replacement between €7,000 and €24,000, typically around €12,000 for a semi-detached house. Our own replacement work averages €8,686 — the lower end of that market. The spread is wide because size, pitch, material, access and what is found underneath all move it.
Almost always scaffolding, disposal, or what happens if the timber underneath turns out to be rotten. Those three are the difference between a cheap-looking quote and a complete one. Ask every contractor to put all three in writing before you compare.
Not necessarily — but a quote that is much cheaper is usually a smaller job than you think. Check it covers the same elevations, the same materials, and the same access. If it does and it is still cheaper, that is a genuine saving.
It tells you the range you should expect and when to ask harder questions. It cannot price your roof — nobody can from a page. Anyone who gives you a firm price without coming out and looking will change it once they are up there, and it will change upwards.
Once a year, each September. Materials, labour and insurance have all moved since 2024, so an old figure is worse than no figure. This is the 2026 edition; the next is due September 2027.
A guide can only take you so far. We come out and look at it, then put the price in writing — itemised, materials named, access included, and the rate agreed in advance for anything found underneath. No obligation, and no pressure if the honest answer is that it does not need doing yet.
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