Tile Roof Replacement in Chandler Park from $8,000. Sound tile over failed underlayment is the commonest finding on a valley tile roof, and it is a relay, not a replacement. Free inspection and a written quote.
A relay needs somewhere to stack the tile while the underlayment goes down, and on a half lot that space does not exist. It gets solved by working the roof in sections rather than stripping the whole field at once, which is slower but is the only way to do it without staging your tile on a neighbor's driveway.
Concrete and clay tile outlives the underlayment beneath it by decades. A tile field that looks perfectly sound from the street can be sitting on felt that has gone brittle and torn, which is why the leak appears with no visible broken tile anywhere near it.



Full tile replacement in Los Angeles runs $15 to $25 per square foot, so $30,000 to $60,000 is a normal figure for one. A lift and relay -- your own tile back down over new underlayment -- is $8,000 to $22,000. That is the single biggest number on this site and it turns on one question: how much of your tile is still good. These are small roofs and the fixed costs do not shrink with them. Permit, mobilization, waste and a crew day cost the same on a 1,100 square foot roof as on a 2,000 one, so the price per square foot reads high until you see the line items. Junction count, not area, drives the labor.
If the tile is sound and only the felt beneath has failed, the relay is the right job at roughly half the cost. We count the salvageable tile before quoting either.
Spalling or widely broken tile, an obsolete profile with no match available, clay rather than concrete, or framing that needs attention once the weight comes off.
Whether the tile itself needed replacing at all. Ask what is wrong with the tile, specifically, and if the answer is about the felt underneath it then you are being quoted the wrong job.
Small lots mean short roof runs with a lot of geometry in them -- several hips and valleys inside a small area, and very little side yard to work from. More junctions per square foot is more places to leak, and tighter access means the tear-off and the load-out are the slow parts of the day rather than the covering.
Chandler Park is built around the Chandler Bikeway, a converted rail right-of-way, and includes a run of half-lot houses on unusually small parcels.
This is a replacement company saying so, which is the point. The most expensive mistake in this market is buying the whole roof when the job was a section of it.
A ridge cap loosened in a Santa Ana, an upstand split by movement, a vent boot gone brittle in the heat. Repairs, all of them, in the hundreds -- and all of them regularly offered as proof that the whole roof has had it.
A separate garage, an outbuilding, a rear addition on its own roof, or one slope that failed years ahead of the others. What we will also tell you is when a partial is just a deposit on doing the rest at a second mobilization cost.
When it is, we will say so plainly, because that is the same job as saying the opposite done honestly. What no homeowner should accept is either verdict without being walked through the reasoning.
On a half lot there is nowhere to put anything.
These small roofs have more hips and valleys per square than anything else we work on, and that changes the arithmetic of a shingle job.
Flat porch and carport roofs on these lots usually drain to a single outlet, and a single outlet is a single point of failure.
Small blocks on small lots have no on-site staging at all -- no yard, no spare bay, nothing.
On a roof this small, half of it arrives quickly -- two slopes can be most of the area on a half-lot house.
Laid out 1887. Mixed-era streets, often three roofs a lot.
A 1945-50 grid, and a garage roof out the back.
Studio quarter. Controlled parking, managed loading.
Verdugo slopes. Fire zone at the margins, hard access.
Horse country. Outbuildings, and Griffith Park litter.
Heavy canopy, high tile share, LADBS permits.
Dense. Small apartment blocks and LADBS permits.
What is worth knowing before you book this.
It might be the right price for the wrong job. Full tile replacement in Los Angeles is $15 to $25 per square foot, so $30,000 to $60,000 is normal for one. But many tile roofs here need a lift and relay instead -- $8,000 to $22,000, because your existing tile goes back down.
Because the leak is under it. Concrete and clay tile outlast the felt beneath them by decades, so the underlayment tears and goes brittle while the tile field above still looks new from the street. That is the commonest tile failure we see and it is not visible from the ground.
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.
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.
Free inspection, and a written quote against a written scope. Every slope photographed before and after - the set is yours.