Hancock Park
Roofing Contractors in Hancock Park
On a 1920s Hancock Park house the leak is usually under clay tile that still looks perfect, or at a valley on a steep, cut-up roofline. Tell us what's going on and we'll come out and look at it. Free inspection, written quote, no obligation.
- 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.
Hancock Park puts two different roofs on the same block. The Spanish and Mediterranean houses carry low-pitched terra-cotta tile, which fails underneath. The Tudor and English revival houses next door carry steep rooflines full of valleys, dormers and chimneys, which fail at the detail. We get on the roof and photograph which one you are dealing with.
- Housing stock1920s period revival, steep roofs with dormers and tall chimneys
- Watch forValley metal and box gutters on cut-up 1920s rooflines
What Hancock Park houses do to a roof
Building started on Rossmore in 1920 and moved west toward Highland, and Hudson Avenue, Hudson Place, June Street, Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place curve around the Wilshire Country Club. Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean Revival put low-pitched terra-cotta tile on one lot. Tudor Revival, English Revival and French Eclectic put a steep cut-up roofline on the next: clipped gables, turrets, dormers, deep valleys, multiple chimneys, with Monterey and American Colonial scattered through. Two different roofs on the same block, failing in different places.
On the tile houses the failure is almost never the tile. A 1920s clay roof here is on its third or fourth layer of felt, and the tile can be sound while the waterproofing under it has powdered. It looks immaculate from the street and leaks badly inside. The fix is a lift and relay: sound tile off, old underlayment stripped, new down, the same tile back. More on the roof repair page.
On the cut-up rooflines the leaks sit at the detail, where chimneys, dormers, turrets and porch roofs tie into a main slope and the valley metal goes first. Many have box gutters built into the eaves. Slate and built-up shingle fail at the fasteners, not the material.
What the work costs here
These are estimate ranges for Los Angeles County, not quotes. Small repairs, a few slipped tiles or a resealed vent, run roughly $400 to $900. A single-source leak at chimney or skylight flashing is roughly $800 to $2,500. Rotten decking is commonly $70 to $100 a sheet installed, and ninety-year-old sheathing under an old leak usually has some. A tile lift and relay is roughly $12,000 to $30,000, new tile throughout roughly $25,000 to $60,000 and up, composition shingle replacement roughly $9,000 to $25,000. Taking solar panels off and putting them back is roughly $4,000 to $10,000 on top.
Hancock Park sits at the top of those ranges. The houses are large and mostly two stories, the rooflines carry more detail per square, and they sit fifty feet back behind mature sycamores and elms, with a side driveway running through a porte cochere to a rear garage that makes staging awkward. A discontinued clay profile costs money to source. More on the roofing costs page.
Book a Hancock Park roof inspection
Start here with your address and roof material. Also: roof replacement, and roofing in the Hollywood Hills.
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
Tell us what is going on
A description is enough to start. We will come out, look at the roof properly, and give you the price in writing.