Why our roofing prices keep on rising.. We have just received another round of notifications that roofing materials will go up another 6.5% in July this year. And good roofers are hard to get (and keep). We have good roofers and pay them a lot more than the Sydney average wage. So you can see that labour costs for roofing work are ‘sky-high’. There is little inflation in most consumer goods. BUT there is a lot of inflation in the building industry! So, the only way to get it cheaper is to do your roof repairs sooner rather than later…