Tile Roof Replacement in the Media District

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.

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.