Georgia Cost GuideHow much does roof tear-off cost in Georgia?
Tearing off the old roof in Georgia: about $2 per sq ft, the middle of the figures posted by 8 Georgia roofing companies, collected September 2026.
Tear-off is the step where the old roof comes off, and it is often tucked inside a bigger quote. See what Georgia roofers post for it per square foot and how to tell what a quote includes.
What roof tear-off costs in Georgia
We checked 801 Georgia roofing company websites.
This is a typical price, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job.
What the job involves
A tear-off strips the old roofing from the house: the shingles, the underlayment, worn flashing and the nails left behind. What remains is the bare wood deck, ready to be checked and covered with a new roof.
It is the first step of a full roof replacement and is often part of a replacement quote, though some companies list it on its own line. Some jobs skip it by installing new roofing over the old, which depends on the roof, the material and the maker's instructions.
The figure above is per square foot of roof, so the roof's measured size turns it into a total. The whole-job ranges for a full roof replacement and an asphalt shingle roof may already count this step, so check a quote before adding a tear-off charge on top.
What's usually included
- Stripping the old roofing and underlayment from the deck
- Pulling off worn flashing and loose nails
- Loading the debris and hauling it away
What moves the price
- Type of old roofing
- Shingles are usually the quickest to strip. Tile, metal or a flat-roof membrane need different handling and can take longer to remove.
- Hauling and dump fees
- Old roofing is heavy, and getting it off the property takes a dumpster or a truck plus dump fees. Where you live and how much debris the roof makes can change that part of the bill.
- Layers to strip
- A roof that already has new shingles laid over old ones has an extra layer to pull off and more weight to haul, and some roofers price each added layer separately.
- Protecting the property
- Covering plants, an air conditioner, a pool or windows below the roof takes materials and time, and a tight lot makes it harder.
- Covering the bare deck
- If the new roofing cannot go on right away, the exposed deck may need a temporary cover. That adds material and labor.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each roofing company before you compare prices:
- Is tear-off a separate line in this quote, or is it inside the price for the new roof?
- Will you take the roof down to the deck, or leave any of the old roofing in place?
- Are dump fees in this price, or billed separately after the job?
- How will you protect my plants, air conditioner and anything else near the house?
- How will you cover the deck if the new roofing cannot go on right after the tear-off?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia roofing companies and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 801 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September 2026. Where that middle half is a single price, we show it as "about" that price.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check roofing prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Tearing off the old roof | 8 (2 price lists, 6 cost guides) |
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