Shingle Roof Replacement in the Media District

It is allowed up to a limit and it is usually the wrong call on a roof this age. An overlay hides the deck, adds weight, and sits on a surface that is no longer flat, which shortens the life of the new covering. On Burbank's older skip-sheathed houses it is worse again, because there is no solid deck to nail into.

Look at the field rather than the failure. Composition here tends to go across a whole slope at once -- granules gone, tabs brittle, seal lines broken -- rather than in patches. A bald section on an otherwise sound slope is a repair; a whole slope like that is a replacement.

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.

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.