My (new to me) house needs a new roof (badly). Found a lumber yard liquidating an old stock of Landmark 30 shingles in the color I want. The price is attractive but there was a period about 6-8 years ago where Landmarks were notorious for sticking together in the package. Seller can't confirm that these suffer from that but that's one of the reasons they're discounted heavily. Seller did have an issue with some sticking together but cannot remember whether it was this color batch or not.
The Landmark shingles have always been fiberglass and so they aren't part of the Certainteed class-action that happened a while back. I can't seem to find anything online suggesting the Landmark was a bad product but I'm still looking.
If they are sticky I can suffer about 30% loss without impacting the project as long as I buy all he has. Any loss above that results in buying additional new product that may not match as well (is more expensive)....but could be hidden on the back of the roof. The garage could always be done in a 3 tab in the same color and no one would notice, it sits back and is so small it wouldn't make a difference.
If they all end up good it represents about half what it would cost in 3-tabs to do the whole project and I would get the architectural look to boot. If there's massive loss and all I can do is the garage from this batch it's more expensive than what the garage would cost in 3-tab regular price but not by a whole lot.
Not sure this is worth the effort but thought I would fish for some commentary about it.
Thanks
Steve
The Landmark shingles have always been fiberglass and so they aren't part of the Certainteed class-action that happened a while back. I can't seem to find anything online suggesting the Landmark was a bad product but I'm still looking.
If they are sticky I can suffer about 30% loss without impacting the project as long as I buy all he has. Any loss above that results in buying additional new product that may not match as well (is more expensive)....but could be hidden on the back of the roof. The garage could always be done in a 3 tab in the same color and no one would notice, it sits back and is so small it wouldn't make a difference.
If they all end up good it represents about half what it would cost in 3-tabs to do the whole project and I would get the architectural look to boot. If there's massive loss and all I can do is the garage from this batch it's more expensive than what the garage would cost in 3-tab regular price but not by a whole lot.
Not sure this is worth the effort but thought I would fish for some commentary about it.
Thanks
Steve