Some roofs need a repair. Some have just run out of years. In Southern California a roof dies slowly. Thirty summers of UV, thermal cycling that curls and cracks the shingles, Santa Ana winds working at the edges, and then one wet winter that finds every weak spot at once. Nothing dramatic happens. It just stops keeping water out.
If you're patching the same roof every rainy season, you already know. We'll get on the roof and tell you straight whether you're looking at another repair or a full replacement. We're not going to sell you a new roof you don't need yet.
Shingles cupping at the corners, and granules collecting at the downspouts. Once the granule layer is gone, the asphalt underneath cooks in the sun.
One leak is a repair. Three separate leaks in three separate seasons means the whole system is at the end of its life, not one detail.
Mastic smeared over old mastic, mismatched shingles, sealant at the flashing. When the roof is more repairs than roof, you're renting time.
If it's the original roof on a house built in the eighties or nineties, it's past due. Age alone isn't proof, but it tells us what to look for when we get up there.
A tear-off means we take the roof down to bare wood and start over. Old roofing, old underlayment, old flashing, old nails. All of it goes in the bin. Layering new shingles over old is faster and cheaper on paper, but it hides everything. You can't see rot through a second layer, and you can't flash a chimney properly through one either. The stacked weight sits on a deck nobody has looked at in decades.
Once the deck is bare, we walk it. Soft spots, delaminated plywood, dry rot around skylights and in the valleys where water sat the longest. That's the part no inspection can promise you in advance, and any roofer who quotes sheathing before tear-off is guessing. We show you what we find and replace what needs replacing before anything goes back down. Then the system goes on: Owens Corning synthetic underlayment across the deck, new flashing at every penetration and wall, and Owens Corning Duration shingles over the top. We tarp and protect the plants and the driveway, and we run a magnet over the whole property before we leave, every last nail.
Most single-family homes are a multi-day job. Tear-off and deck repair first, then the new system goes on. Weather and the size and complexity of the roof move that number. We'll give you a realistic schedule after we've been on your roof, not before.
No. People stay in their homes through a re-roof. It's loud, there's foot traffic overhead, and the driveway gets used for materials and the dumpster, so plan around that. We keep walkways clear and clean up at the end of each day.
Not with certainty. An inspection can flag likely trouble (old leak stains, sagging lines, soft areas underfoot), but the deck is under the roof, so nobody sees the real condition until tear-off. We show you what's there and get your approval before replacing sheathing.
We'll come out, get on the roof, and put it in writing. Free inspection across LA and the Inland Empire.
