Off Gage Ave and the blocks running toward Atlantic Blvd, the housing is what we spend most of our Bell days on: 1920s through 40s bungalows and small stucco homes on lots so tight there's barely room to set a ladder in the side yard.
Roofing in Bell →
A cracked field tile on a 1920s Spanish house off Roxbury usually isn't the leak. Water gets in three courses uphill, runs the batten, and shows up over the dining room.
Roofing in Beverly Hills →
Staging a tear-off here is about as easy as it gets in LA County. Flat ground, and the streets off Rosecrans and Alondra are wide enough to drop a dumpster without eating a lane.
Roofing in Compton →
Half the roofs here can't be reached by truck. That's the first thing we check on a Cudahy bid, before we ever talk shingles.
Roofing in Cudahy →
Parking a truck on the switchbacks above Blair Hills takes some planning. Culver Crest is the same story — steep driveways, tight streets, and pitches where we stage off the roof instead of throwing one ladder up and hoping.
Roofing in Culver City →
Roofs age faster here than a mile inland. You sit at the south end of the LAX runways, and the soot that settles out of that traffic dulls granules and reflectance years ahead of schedule. The refinery and Hyperion don't help.
Roofing in El Segundo →
Up in the hill neighborhoods, half a day goes to getting material onto the roof. Here it's the opposite: flat ground, wide streets off Western and Normandie, easy staging.
Roofing in Gardena →
A dingbat fourplex off Freeman Ave with a cap sheet that had gone brittle at the parapet, ponding water on a dead-flat deck and staining the ceiling of a second-floor unit. That's a normal Tuesday for us.
Roofing in Hawthorne →
Water shows up in a third-floor ceiling and the homeowner assumes it's the shingles. It almost never is. On these three-story lots — 25 by 90 is about standard — the leak is coming off the little flat roof-deck over the living space, where…
Roofing in Hermosa Beach →
Bungalows and stucco duplexes from the twenties through the forties make up most of what we re-roof out here, usually carrying two or three layers of comp already. That means a full tear-off and, often, new decking.
Roofing in Huntington Park →
Run Hawthorne Blvd from Manhattan Beach Blvd down to Redondo Beach Blvd and the housing behind it barely changes: 1950s single-story stucco tracts, roughly 5,000 sq ft lots, low-pitch comp shingle.
Roofing in Lawndale →
Two very different roofs dominate the LA work we take on. North of us, the 1940s Ranch tracts in Westchester and Playa del Rey — built fast for the Douglas Aircraft crowd — run low-slope shingle with long shallow runs and old flashing at…
Roofing in Los Angeles →
On a wide Inglewood street the truck and the dumpster both fit in the driveway. Down here that's rarely an option. Lots are small, driveways narrow, so the dumpster goes street-side and we knock on doors the day before.
Roofing in Lynwood →
Owners of the three-story new builds in the Sand Section call with the same headache: standing-seam metal up top, a flat deck behind it, and no way to get a truck near the door. The walk streets take no vehicles.
Roofing in Manhattan Beach →
The Esplanade bluff takes the worst of it. Salt sits on those roofs all day, and flashing and fasteners go first — the edge metal isn't far behind. Two miles inland the identical detail is fine at ten years.
Roofing in Redondo Beach →
Corroded fasteners and rusted-through flashing are what we pull off most roofs out here. Salt air plus a marine layer that barely burns off keeps a low-slope deck damp, so shingles look fine from the street while the nails holding them…
Roofing in Santa Monica →
A lot of the calls out here come from families who've held the same house forty years — small stucco places in the Home Gardens tract, subdivided in the 1920s so working people could build their own. That history sits on the roof.
Roofing in South Gate →
This isn't one roofing market, it's about five. Pull tile on a 1920s bungalow off Sartori and you'll find skip sheathing that was never meant to carry modern underlayment, so tear-off turns into a decking conversation fast.
Roofing in Torrance →
A property manager called about a unit off Fountain where water tracked down an interior wall every time it rained. The cap sheet on that dingbat had been patched four times, each lap running the wrong way, and the drain held an inch of…
Roofing in West Hollywood →
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