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(Tip: When you're paying this much for the material, you want a slate specialist to install it.) All told, the cost of installing a slate roof can range from about $1,500 to over $5,000 per square. On a 30-square (3,000 square-foot) roof, that's a price tag of $45,000 to $150,000 for the whole job. Now, back to the question of affordability, or more precisely, relative affordability.
In most cases, Mr. Stearns said, a slate roof installation -- including the slate itself and removal of the existing roof -- will cost about $1,500 per square, with each square equal to a 10-by-10-foot area. He said that the square footage of a roof is usually about the same as the total square footage of the house. So a 2,000-square-foot house would require 20 squares, and a new slate roof would cost about $30,000. ''I would guess that to do the same job with asphalt shingles would cost about $200 a square,'' he said.