Roofing Contractors in the Hollywood Hills

The mid-century hillside houses. Post-and-beam and hillside modern from the 1950s through the 1970s, cantilevered over the slope on Mount Olympus, the Bird Streets, the lots off Mulholland and up Nichols Canyon. Low-slope or dead-flat roofs sit over exposed beam ceilings. The surface is cap sheet or modified bitumen, and TPO where it has been redone. No attic, no crawl space, so no ventilation and nowhere to trace a leak from. Water that gets in shows on your living room ceiling that afternoon, often far from where it entered. Ponding, split seams, failed parapet and scupper flashings and tired skylight curbs are the recurring failures. Most of that is roof repair work long before it is a roof replacement.

The older canyon stock. Beachwood Canyon and Whitley Heights hold 1920s Spanish and storybook houses with low-pitched clay tile, deep eaves, and rooflines carrying more valleys and flashing per square foot than anything built since. Outpost Estates runs to steeper tile. The tile is usually fine and the underlayment is not: tile lasts fifty years or more, the felt beneath it rarely past twenty-five or thirty. So the work here is a lift and relay: sound tiles come off, new underlayment goes down, your existing tiles go back on.

The streets decide the rest. Much of the hills is narrow, steep street: blind curves, shared driveways, houses a story below the road or a hundred steps above it. There may be no driveway for a dumpster and no legal place to leave one on the street, so the old roof is carried down by hand, run down a conveyor, or lifted off by crane. Get it in writing before you sign: how the tear-off leaves the site, and where the truck and the dumpster will sit.