Roof Repair in Studio City

The old stock sits on the flat ground just south of the boulevard. Laurel Terrace, the twelve blocks between the boulevard and the toe of the hill, was one of the earliest neighborhoods here: subdivided in 1923 and 1924 by an Iowa cattle breeder named David Maxwell, built out through 1953, and surveyed by the city as 328 properties with 185 still reading as original. Spanish Colonial and American Colonial period revival, with Minimal Traditional and Ranch alongside them.

On the Spanish houses the barrel tile outlasts nearly everything and the felt under it does not, so a roof that looks fine from the street can be wetting a ceiling. The answer there is usually a lift and relay: sound tile off, new underlayment, the same tile back down. The tracts that filled in around it after the war brought low pitches instead. Leave the underlayment single on those pitches and the roof looks right for years, then lets go on the first storm that drives rain uphill under the tabs.

South of Laurel Terrace the ground climbs to Mulholland Drive and the houses change with it. Briarcliff Manor premiered in 1939 as the Beverly Hills of the Valley, its first tract laid out along Iredell Street at Fryman Road on former ranch land, and its streets still curve with no sidewalks. Eureka Summit came later, fourteen houses at the south end of Wrightwood Drive built between 1961 and 1963, set flush with the street and turned away from the road to face the canyon. On that generation of hillside house we find roofs running flat or close to it, with the deck doubling as the finished ceiling. No attic catches anything, so water comes through onto the wood you are looking at.