Shingle roofs
The roof on most houses around here. Laminated shingles, thicker than the old flat three-tab kind.
- Sample price
- $450 to $650 a square
- Typical life
- 25 to 30 years
Roofs laid right, from the eave up.
Repairs, replacements, tile and metal roofs across Lakewood and Long Beach. Photos of your roof and a written estimate before you sign anything.
C-39 roofing contractor, license 000000 Sample. Down payment never more than $1,000 or 10% of the job, whichever is less: the California limit.
How a job goesThe roofs we lay.
Three kinds cover most houses between the 605 and the 710, plus concrete tile (in the estimate). Prices per square are samples: a square is 100 square feet of roof.
Clay tile
The Spanish look. Old tiles in good shape can often go back on over new underlayment.
- Sample price
- $1,300 to $2,000 a square
- Typical life
- 50 years and more
Standing seam metal
Long panels from eave to ridge, with raised seams. No courses at all.
- Sample price
- $1,100 to $1,600 a square
- Typical life
- 40 to 60 years
Not every roof needs replacing.
Most leaks start at a flashing, a vent boot or a few lifted shingles. If a repair buys you years, that’s what we quote, with the photos to show why.
- Repairs from $450 Sample
- Vent boots, chimney and skylight flashing, valleys
- A written roof report you can keep, even if we don’t get the job
How a job goes.
A replacement on a one-story house takes two or three days. Here’s each one, in order.
- We look first. Up on the roof and in the attic, with photos of everything we see. You get the photos either way.
- The estimate comes in writing. Squares, material, tear-off, flashing and the price, line by line. No pressure to sign the same day.
- We protect the yard. Tarps over the plants, a magnet sweep for nails before we leave each day.
- Off with the old roof. Down to the deck. Soft or rotten boards are replaced at the price per sheet in your estimate.
- Underlayment, flashing, drip edge. The layers you never see are the ones that keep the water out.
- Courses from the eave up. Each row overlaps the one below it, so water always runs over a shingle, never under one.
- The ridge cap goes on last. Then the city inspection, a final walk with you and a written warranty.
After a storm, start from the ground.
Don’t climb a wet roof. Our checklist shows what to look for from the yard and what to photograph for your insurer.
Where the crews go.
Southeast LA County, out of a yard in Lakewood. Inspections are free inside this list.
- Lakewood
- Long Beach
- Bellflower
- Cerritos
- Downey
- Signal Hill
- Paramount
- Artesia
