Roofing Contractors in West Hollywood

This city is apartment buildings, in two waves. The 1920s and 1930s gave it the courtyard block, Spanish Colonial Revival and Art Deco, thickest around Fountain, Harper and Havenhurst. Leland Bryant's Romanesque Villa Apartments went up on North Harper in 1928 and the type runs all through those streets. From the sidewalk they read as tile roofs. Get up there and the tile is a visor on the street elevation and a cap on the entry tower, with a flat deck behind it draining to scuppers. The second wave is the dingbat, the 1950s and 1960s stucco box with the parking tucked underneath, flat wall to wall, hot-mopped when it was new and cap sheet or single-ply now. On either one the failure is almost never out in the field. It shows up at the parapet where the flashing sits in cracked stucco, or at a scupper where years of grit have built a pond.

Here is the part that catches owners out. On an occupied residential rental property the building permit sits on hold until Rent Stabilization clears it. You file a Tenant Habitability Checklist with the permit application and the division reviews it. Most re-roofs clear at that stage. If the answers to the checklist's five questions are all no, you sign it and submit it, and what you owe after that is a Notice of Construction given to every tenant household and posted near the building entrance ten days before work starts. A full Tenant Habitability Plan comes in under section 17.30.010 for a narrower set of jobs, among them seismic strengthening work under chapters 13.28, 13.32, 13.36 and 13.40, and work that would leave an occupied unit uninhabitable. That one carries a $100 fee and ten business days of review, and the permit stays held until it clears.

Two more local rules move the calendar. Section 9.08.050(d)(1) of the noise ordinance bars construction between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, which leaves 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to work in. Saturday is interior only inside that same window, and section 9.08.030 defines interior construction as work taking place entirely within a structure enclosed on all sides with the windows and doors installed and closed. A roof does not qualify. Sundays and the listed city holidays are out. Where there is no room on site, the debris box goes in the street, which the city lists as construction debris container staging and puts under an encroachment permit from Public Works Engineering. Figure about ten business days per review cycle there, and No Parking signs up and verified at least 72 hours before the start.

Check the survey before you order materials. The city adopted its preservation ordinance in 1989 and has designated 90 cultural resources, and the surveys reach much wider than that. The 2008 multi-family survey looked at about 2,160 properties in the R2, R3 and R4 zones built before 1961, and the 2016 commercial survey covered commercial, institutional and industrial buildings built before 1975. A property flagged in the permit system as potentially historic needs a certificate of appropriateness from Current and Historic Preservation Planning before a re-roof permit will issue. A property that is not flagged can get that permit over the counter. The city learned the difference in public at 8001-8003 Santa Monica Boulevard, a one-story Spanish Colonial Revival building from 1922 that the 2016 commercial survey had picked up and the permit system had not yet flagged. On November 3, 2017 it issued an over-the-counter permit to tear the tile off down to the sheathing and install dimensional shingles. The red clay tile roof, the coping, the circular roof towers and a notched wood beam over the breezeway went with it, and in August 2020 the council let the building's removal from the survey stand.