Los Angeles County, California

Roof Replacement in Los Angeles

A roof that is finished shows it in several places at once, not in the one spot you keep patching. We walk it and tell you whether it needs replacing or one repair. There is no charge for the visit or the written quote.

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Free roof inspection
We come out, get on the roof, and tell you what we find.
The price in writing
A written quote before anyone starts, with nothing to sign on the spot.
Licensed roofers
Our roofer who comes out holds a current California license.
Across Los Angeles County
From the Valley and the foothills to the Westside and the South Bay.

A composition shingle re-roof on a typical Los Angeles house runs $9,000 to $25,000. Tile is different: the tile itself rarely fails, so lifting sound tiles and relaying them over new underlayment is often the right answer and costs less than starting again.

Most roofs in Los Angeles don't fail dramatically. They get old, and one October the rain finds a way in. If you're patching the same roof every winter, replacement is usually the cheaper answer over the next ten years.

We replace roofs across Los Angeles County, inland and on the coast. Tell us what's going on and we'll come out to look at it. We get on the roof, walk it, and give you a written quote. It's free, with no obligation.

Composition re-roof, typical range$9,000 to $25,000

Tile lift and relay $12,000 to $30,000. New tile throughout $25,000 to $60,000 and up. Flat and low-slope $12,000 to $30,000. Taking solar off and putting it back adds $4,000 to $10,000. Full breakdown on the costs page.

A replacement is a build-up, not a single layer. The deck is checked, the underlayment goes down, and the covering follows, so what a quote says about the layers under those shingles matters as much as the shingle itself.

How to tell a roof is done

One leak is usually a repair. Failed flashing around a chimney, a cracked tile, a vent boot dried out after twenty summers. That's a half-day job, not a re-roof. The signs that the roof itself is finished are different, and they show up together.

Composition shingle: granules collecting in the gutters, shingles curling at the edges or brittle enough to snap when lifted, bald patches where the mat shows through. Once a roof is shedding granules across whole slopes, patching just moves the leak.
Tile: the tile is usually fine. What fails is the underlayment beneath it. Look for leaks in several unrelated spots, tiles slipping out of line, ceiling stains nowhere near a vent. If a roofer lifts a few tiles and the felt underneath is gray and cracking, the clock has run out.
Flat and low-slope: blisters, seams that have opened up, a surface that feels soft underfoot, water still sitting days after rain. Soft decking is the serious one. That's rot, and it means the leak has been going longer than you thought.
From inside: daylight through the attic boards, sagging between rafters, damp insulation.

The other test is arithmetic. If repairs run a few thousand every couple of years and the roof still won't hold a season, that money is better spent on replacement.

Why so many LA roofs are due right now

Whole tracts here went up in the same few years, so they reach the end of a covering in the same few years too.

The median home in Los Angeles County was built in 1965, and about 44% of homes in the City of LA predate 1960 on the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates. Most of that stock has been re-roofed once, much of it in the 1990s. A composition roof laid in 1994 with a thirty-year shingle on it has done its work.

That's the most common replacement in the county by a distance: a 1950s house, re-roofed once in the nineties, going into another rain season on a roof that's out of time. Nothing has gone wrong as such, but the roof is finished.

Rain season runs October to March, and that's when everyone calls at once. If you already suspect the roof is marginal, the easy time to deal with it is late spring or summer, when schedules are open.

What roof replacement costs in Los Angeles

These are ballpark ranges for LA County. Estimates, not quotes. Pricing moves with the size and pitch of the roof, how many old layers come off, whether the decking underneath is sound, access, and how many chimneys, skylights and valleys are involved. Only a roofer who has been up on your roof can give you a real number.

Composition shingle

The volume material, and what most tract housing wears. You see it all over the Valley and the South Bay, and on the 1950s stock in Torrance. Roughly $9,000 to $25,000 for a typical single-family roof, most jobs in the middle of that. Architectural shingle costs more than three-tab and lasts longer, which is usually worth the difference.

Tile

Spanish and concrete tile runs through Pasadena, Glendale, San Marino, Hancock Park, Silver Lake and Palos Verdes. Two very different jobs hide under the word "tile." A lift and relay typically runs $12,000 to $30,000. Sound tiles come off, new underlayment goes down, then the same tiles go back on. It's the right call more often than people expect. New tile throughout is more like $25,000 to $60,000 and up. If your tiles are in decent shape, ask about a relay before pricing new ones.

Flat and low-slope

Mid-century houses, hillside modern, duplexes. TPO and other single-ply membranes, modified bitumen and cap sheet systems generally run $12,000 to $30,000 on a house-sized roof. Drainage work adds to that, and it's money well spent. That means adding or moving drains and scuppers, and building up crickets so water has somewhere to go. Plenty of LA houses are a mix, with tile at the front and flat over the back addition. A good quote prices the two separately.

Composition re-roof, typical range$9,000 to $25,000The inspection is free, and the price for your roof comes in writing.

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The solar question

Panels come off before the roof and go back on after. If the roof is close to done, doing it in the wrong order means paying to pull them twice.

Panels have to come off before a roof can be replaced, then go back on. Removal and reinstall commonly runs $4,000 to $10,000 depending on the size of the array and who handles it. Sometimes that's the solar company, sometimes we coordinate it.

Which makes the rule of thumb simple. If the roof is 15 years or older, replace it before the panels go on. Doing the roof first costs nothing extra. Doing it afterward means paying for the removal twice. If you already have panels on an aging roof, price both together instead of waiting for a leak to force the timing.

A re-roof is also when the attic vents get cut, so if the house runs hot upstairs, price the attic ventilation with it. A roof for an ADU or an addition going up alongside is a separate job, covered on new roof installation.

Permits

Replacing a roof needs a permit. In the City of LA that's LADBS. Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank and the other independent cities run their own building departments, with their own fees and inspectors. Our roofer pulls it, and you settle the fee with the city yourself. It is not part of our price. A roofer who suggests skipping the permit is telling you something useful. There's an inspection at the end, and that paperwork is worth keeping for resale.

Fire zones and what a Class A assembly means

If the property sits in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone, the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code applies. Those zones cover the foothills, the canyons, and the Palisades and Eaton burn areas. The part people miss is that the requirement is a Class A roof assembly, not a Class A shingle. The rating is earned by the whole build-up: the covering, the underlayment beneath it, and how edges and penetrations are detailed. A Class A shingle over the wrong underlayment isn't a Class A assembly.

Chapter 7A also covers ember-resistant vents and non-combustible gutters, since embers landing in a gutter full of dry leaves are a common way a house catches. If you're rebuilding after the fires, raise it in the first conversation. It changes the specification and the price, and you want that in the written quote.

What happens when you call us

Tell us the address, roughly what the roof is, and what's prompting the call. Our licensed roofer, who works on that kind of roof, comes out at a time that suits you, and we show up when we say we will. Free inspection, and a written quote before anyone starts.

Ask our roofer for the CSLB license number and look it up yourself to check the classification and status. We hand it over without fuss. Then we walk the roof, take measurements, and price the job off what's up there.

Read the quote line by line before you sign. Ask what happens if the decking underneath turns out to be rotten, and what that does to the price. We'll put the answer in writing.

The offer

$500 off a new roof, 10% off any repair

Send your request online from this page and the offer is attached, with nothing to remember.

We get on the roof, and into the attic if that is where the answer is
You get photographs of whatever we find
The price in writing, with nothing to sign on the spot

Claim it on a free inspection

Granule loss and curlingA thirty-year shingle laid in the nineties is finished, whatever it looks like from the street.
Soft deckingWhat the old roof was hiding only shows once it is off, which is why quotes carry a rate for replacing it.
The edge detailWhere the assembly is made or lost, and the part an inspector looks at first.