FAQ

A full replacement in Los Angeles County is estimated at $10,000 to $25,000 for most houses. Composition shingle runs $7 to $11 per square foot here and tile $15 to $25. The range is wide because covering, pitch, access and what the old roof was hiding all move it, which is why the inspection is free and the quote is written down.

Sometimes less would do, and we will say so. A tile roof is very often a lift and relay at roughly half the price. A confined failure on a separate structure is a partial. The test is whether the covering away from the failure still has life in it, and you should be shown the evidence either way.

Because most online figures are national. Asphalt shingle is about $8.50 per square foot here against roughly $4 nationally. A quote that matches a national average is usually missing something -- most often the tear-off or the sheathing allowance.

Maybe, but get a second opinion before you sign anything, and never accept a price given at the door. Ask for a CSLB C-39 number and check it on the public register. That takes a minute and it is the single most effective thing you can do.

A typical single-family Burbank house is a three to five day job once it starts: tear-off and dry-in first, covering after. Tile takes longer than composition, and a lift and relay longer again because the tile is handled twice. Weather moves it, and we will not dry-in a roof we cannot finish.

It depends on the slope. Burbank is Title 24 climate zone 9, and the steep-slope cool-roof requirement applies in zones 10 to 15 -- so a pitched roof here is generally outside it. Low slope is different: that requirement applies in all sixteen zones with no exemption, once more than half the roof area is replaced.

No. The inspection is free, the written quote is free, and there is no obligation attached to either. What we will not do is give you a price at the door without going up.

Re-roofing is permitted work. In Burbank it goes through the City of Burbank's Building and Safety Division -- not LADBS, because Burbank is its own incorporated city -- and re-roof permits can be pulled through the city's own portal. Toluca Lake and North Hollywood are City of Los Angeles and do go through LADBS. We pull it either way, and the inspection is your independent check that the specification was followed.