Roof Replacement in Los Angeles - Free Roof Inspection, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Roof Replacement Across Los Angeles

Roof replacement in Los Angeles costs between $14,500 and $38,000 for a standard asphalt shingle job on a 1,500 to 2,200 square foot home, and between $42,000 and $85,000 when you’re re-roofing a hillside Spanish Colonial with a Class A fire-rated assembly. Those are real numbers from the permits and jobs we’ve done across LA. If you’re reading this because your current roof leaked during the last atmospheric river, you need a company that answers the phone, shows up, and puts the price in writing before anything gets torn off. Call (945) 303-9821 and we’ll walk you through exactly what your roof needs and what it will cost.

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Why Tilehurst Roofing Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Roof Replacement Company

Tilehurst Roofing is part of the Kingswell family of roofing companies, founded in 2000, and built for homeowners who’ve already been through the no-show contractor, the changed price at the door, the repair that failed within a month. Every Los Angeles job begins with a written price before any work starts. That’s not a marketing line. It’s the Kingswell Way: say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, leave the place cleaner than we found it, put the guarantee in writing, come back if it fails.

Greg Holloway leads our Los Angeles roofing team, and every technician on your roof is background-checked and in uniform, so you know exactly who’s on your property. Our 365-Day Done Right Promise is straightforward: if it’s not done right, we make it right, for a full year after the job. And when you call (945) 303-9821, a live person answers. Not a voicemail. Not a callback queue. Every call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Asphalt Shingle Roof Replacement in Los Angeles

Asphalt Shingle Roof Replacement in Los Angeles is the workhorse re-roof for the postwar tract homes across the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay, and Westside neighborhoods like Cheviot Hills or Mar Vista. The job involves tearing off the old shingle layer, inspecting and often replacing the decking beneath, laying new underlayment, installing drip edge and flashing, then nailing down the new shingle field with ridge caps and hip caps. Most asphalt shingle replacements in Los Angeles run $14,500 to $38,000 depending on square footage, tear-off layers, and decking condition.

Here’s the Los Angeles wrinkle, though. If your home sits in one of the city’s Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones, LADBS enforces Class A assembly requirements that many commodity shingles can’t meet. That changes the material conversation before you ever pick a color.

Class A Fire-Rated Shingle Assemblies

Homes in the Hollywood Hills, Bel Air, Pacific Palisades, and hillside pockets of Eagle Rock and Silver Lake all fall under VHFHSZ rules. For those roofs, we specify Class A rated assemblies from GAF, CertainTeed, or Owens Corning that pass inspection without argument. The price difference between a code-minimum shingle and a Class A assembly in Los Angeles is typically $4 to $8 per square foot, and it’s not optional in the fire zones.

Decking Replacement Under Shingle Roofs

Many Los Angeles homes built before 1970 have plywood decking that’s seen fifty or sixty summers of UV heat and winter rain cycles. When we tear off, we check for delamination and rot at the eaves and valleys. If decking needs replacing, budget an additional $2.50 to $4.50 per square foot, and you’ll know before we start because the written price covers what we find.

New Roof Installation in Los Angeles

New Roof Installation in Los Angeles applies to new construction, ADUs, second-story additions, or a full re-frame where there’s no existing roof to tear off. The job includes framing inspection, solid decking, underlayment, flashing, and the complete roofing system from drip edge to ridge cap. New roof installation on a typical Los Angeles addition or ADU runs $18,000 to $55,000 depending on size, pitch, and the assembly class your neighborhood’s fire zone requires.

If you’re building new in Los Angeles, the roof spec matters early. Inspectors check the entire assembly, not just the field material, so you want a roofer who knows what LADBS will look for before the framing goes up.

New Construction Roofing Specs

New construction in Los Angeles pulls a plan check that includes the roof assembly as a complete system. That means the sheathing type, underlayment rating, fastener schedule, and roofing material all have to work together on paper first. We work with your architect or GC to make sure the roof spec passes the first time, because a failed plan check adds weeks.

ADU and Addition Roofs

ADU construction across Los Angeles has exploded, and the roof is where we see corners cut most often. A flat or low-slope roof on an ADU needs a built-up or modified bitumen system that handles standing water and sun exposure. For ADU roofs in Los Angeles, we typically install solid OSB or plywood decking, then a multi-ply system with proper crickets and drains. Budget $22 to $35 per square foot for a quality flat roof on an ADU.

Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles

You shouldn’t have to take whatever shingle happens to be in the truck. Tilehurst Roofing installs roofing systems from seven major manufacturers: GAF, CertainTeed, Owens Corning, IKO, Atlas, Tamko, and Boral. So when a Los Angeles homeowner needs a Class A assembly that mimics clay tile without the weight, we can spec a Boral stone-coated steel system. When a Westside homeowner wants dimensional architectural shingles that hold up to salt air, we’ll price GAF Timberline or UncertainTeed Landmark. You get the product that fits your home and your fire zone, not a house brand. And because we carry relationships with all seven, lead times on material orders for Los Angeles jobs are usually days, not weeks.

Common Roof Replacement Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes

• Salt-corrosion on fasteners and flashing. Homes west of the 405 get marine air that eats standard galvanized fasteners and drip edge within five to seven years. We specify stainless steel or hot-dip galvanized hardware on every coastal Los Angeles roof replacement because the cheap spec fails at the edges long before the shingles or tile give out.
• Failed underlayment under perfectly good clay tile. Original Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean Revival homes in neighborhoods like Hancock Park or Los Feliz often have clay tile roofs that look fine from the street, but the 30-lb felt or hot-mop underlayment beneath them has gone brittle after 30 years. The tile is fine. The roof leaks anyway. The fix is a re-underlayment job where we remove, number, palletize, and re-lay the original tile.
• Skip-sheathing blocking Class A compliance. Homes built before the 1940s often have spaced board decking (skip-sheathing) under old shake or tile roofs. LADBS won’t approve a Class A assembly over skip-sheathing, so the re-roof job has to include overlaying solid OSB or plywood across the entire deck before the new assembly goes on.
• Santa Ana wind damage lifting tile and ridge caps. Every fall, the hot northeast winds hit 60 to 80 mph and find every tile or ridge cap that wasn’t fastened for uplift. The wind also drives embers, which is why a loose tile isn’t just a leak risk, it’s a fire path into your attic. We see the same wind-lift failures every October across hillside streets in Los Angeles.

Pricing for Roof Replacement in Los Angeles, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles

Our Roof Replacement crews work across Los Angeles and into the surrounding communities. That includes Huntington Park, South Gate, Bell, and Maywood, where the same fire-zone rules and coastal weather patterns shape what a roof needs. If you’re in one of those cities, call the same number: (945) 303-9821.

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