Tile Roof Replacement in Glendale

Because the leak is under it. Clay and concrete 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 in Glendale and it is not visible from the ground.

Not from a supplier -- that profile has not been made for generations and the color variation across ninety years of weathering cannot be matched from a pallet. What works is salvaging your own: a relay puts the original tile back, and where some has to be replaced the sound pieces go on the street elevation.

In Los Angeles County most replacements are estimated at $10,000 to $25,000. Composition shingle runs $7 to $11 per square foot here and clay tile $15 to $25. Glendale sits at the tile end of that more often than most of the county, which is why the relay question matters so much locally.

It is a real rule and it is not California's. Several states apply a 25% threshold, above which a repaired roof has to be brought up to current code. California uses 50%: replace more than half the total roof area within any one-year period and the whole roof has to comply. If you have read about the 25% rule, that is why it does not match what a Glendale contractor tells you.

For composition on an average house, yes, and you should get another quote. For a full clay tile replacement in Los Angeles it is a normal number -- tile runs $15 to $25 per square foot, so $30,000 to $60,000 is the range. The question worth asking first is whether you need a replacement at all, because a relay of your existing tile is $8,000 to $22,000.