Santa Clarita
Roofers in Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita is the county's newest big city, and its roofs are at the age where the tile is still fine but the felt underneath has given up. We look under the tile before quoting, and the visit is free.
- 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.
Concrete tile over 1980s and 1990s felt is what a roof problem looks like here. Only about 4% of Santa Clarita's housing predates 1960 on Census ACS 2024 five-year estimates, and about a quarter of it went up in the 1980s, the single biggest decade in the city's stock. Santa Clarita incorporated on December 15, 1987, pulling Valencia, Saugus, Newhall and Canyon Country together, and tract building ran from the 1970s through the 2000s. Tile does not fail at the tile. The layer keeping water out is the asphalt-saturated felt underneath it, and felt rarely gets past twenty-five or thirty years.
A Valencia tract finished in 1988 is thirty-eight years old; a Plum Canyon house from 1994 is thirty-two. Both are past that window, and because these streets went up all at once they arrive there all at once. What you see is a ceiling stain with no cracked tile above it, rusted valley metal, or ridge mortar crumbling onto the tile below. The roof looks immaculate from the street the whole time. About 72% of the city's roughly 75,800 occupied homes are owner-occupied, high for this county, where Santa Monica sits at 27.9%.
That makes the useful question a short one: is my tile sound? If it is, you need the same tile back down over new underlayment.
- Housing stockNewer tract housing, concrete tile laid in the same few years
- Typical hereTile relay $12,000 to $30,000
- Watch forThe tile is fine; the felt under it is finished
What roof work costs in Santa Clarita
Estimate ranges, not quotes.
- Tile lift and relay: roughly $12,000 to $30,000. One slope alone, commonly $2,500 to $7,000.
- New tile throughout: roughly $25,000 to $60,000 and up.
- Composition shingle replacement: roughly $9,000 to $25,000, or around $8 to $12 a square foot installed.
- Single-source leak repair, chimney or skylight flashing: roughly $800 to $2,500. Resealing a vent or resetting slipped tiles, about $400 to $900.
- Rotten decking, found once the tile is off: commonly $70 to $100 a sheet installed.
- Solar removal and reinstallation: roughly $4,000 to $10,000, on top of the roof.
Santa Clarita sits mid-range. Simple tract shapes and wide driveways help. Tile is heavy and slow to handle, many of these houses are two stories, and canyon lots add hours. What decides the bill is relay against replacement: a relay buys twenty-five or thirty more years out of tile you own, and new tile starts where the relay range ends.
More on roof replacement, what roofing costs in Los Angeles and roofing in the San Fernando Valley, or get a free quote.
Common questions about roofing in Santa Clarita
My Santa Clarita tile roof looks perfect but the ceiling is staining. What's wrong?
Almost always the underlayment. Concrete tile lasts fifty years or more, but the felt beneath it rarely lasts past thirty. On a Valencia, Saugus, Newhall or Canyon Country house roofed in the late 1980s or the 1990s, that felt is long past its span, so water gets in with every tile still intact. The fix is a lift and relay, roughly $12,000 to $30,000, against $25,000 to $60,000 and up for new tile.
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.