Roofing Contractors in North Hollywood

The houses are mostly wartime and 1950s, one story, stucco, on flat rectangular lots that were orchard before the tracts came. On the Los Angeles County Assessor's 2025 roll, 38 percent of the single-family parcels inside North Hollywood carry a year built between 1940 and 1945, and another 33 percent between 1946 and 1959, so roughly seven in ten went up inside twenty years. Gable and hip roofs, shallow pitch, composition shingle. None of the geometry is hard. Sun is what finishes them. NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals put the average August high at Burbank Airport, sitting right off the northeast corner of the neighborhood, at 88.9 degrees, against 76.7 at LAX. Ten to twelve degrees of that from July through September cooks the oil out of an asphalt shingle. You see it as curled tabs along the west and south edges, bare patches where the granules have gone, and grit in the bottom of the gutter.

The apartment stock is the other half of the work. The land use table in the North Hollywood-Valley Village Community Plan puts 1,365 net acres under multiple-family designations, a fifth of the plan area, against 2,193 acres of single family. On the ground that is duplexes, fourplexes and two-story walk-ups with the parking tucked underneath, and on the same assessor roll about two thirds of them were up before 1960. The covering is a granulated cap sheet or a rolled membrane, draining to interior drains or out through a scupper in the parapet. They give up at the seams, at the drain bowl and at the base flashing where the parapet meets the field. Water sits on these roofs, so the failure is quiet. By the time a stain shows in a unit below, the deck has been wet a while.

Two things that shape a roof price in the hills do not reach you here. The California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, which took over from Chapter 7A of the Building Code on January 1, 2026, applies to parcels mapped High or Very High, and North Hollywood carries neither. City Planning's list of local historic districts has three in the whole San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys, Balboa Highlands and Stonehurst, and none of them is here, so unless the house itself is a designated Historic-Cultural Monument, nobody reviews your material or your color before the permit. The boundary runs closer than the flat ground suggests, though. Half a mile south of the neighborhood line the map picks up Moderate, then High, and by Ventura Boulevard in Studio City it reads Very High.

The one city rule that does reach the covering is the cool roof requirement, and LADBS puts it on the re-roof permit itself. Its express permit bulletin, P/GI 2026-003, says that once a residential roof replacement passes half of the total roof area, the covering has to be a cool roof product labeled and certified by the Cool Roof Rating Council. On low-slope that means a white or light-colored cap sheet or membrane. On shingle it narrows the choice. The Council's rated products directory carries about 170 asphalt shingles from eight manufacturers, and every line on it names a product and a color, so a shingle that is not listed does not clear the requirement whatever it looks like. Color counts as well, because the whitest shingle on that list rates roughly a third higher for aged reflectance than the best of the blacks. Ask to see the CRRC listing for the exact product and color before anything goes up. One job on that same bulletin is exempt: pull the old tile, lay new underlayment and reset the same tile, and it says cool roof compliance is not required.

Everything else here is straightforward. A re-roof is an express permit at LADBS, which means no plan check, as long as the covering is Class A or B and weighs under six pounds per square foot over solid sheathing. That covers composition and most low-slope work. Tile can run over that weight, so ask what the material on your quote weighs before you count on the fast route. You can pull the permit online, or by appointment at the Van Nuys Development Services Center, 6262 Van Nuys Boulevard. More on both is on the roof repair and roof replacement pages.