Roofing Contractor in San Fernando, CA

From our PCH address the run to San Fernando is about 85 minutes over 45 miles. Call first and we will confirm scheduling, then say honestly when we can get a truck there. What makes the city different is its status. It is a separate city of about 2.4 square miles, wholly surrounded by Los Angeles, with its own building department and a stock of homes from well before World War II. Roofs here are old, layered and baked by valley summers, and the paperwork does not run through LADBS.

Booking a roofing visit in San Fernando from Torrance

The estimate or roof inspection is free, and photos let you see the trouble yourself. Small lots mean tight street parking, so tell us where a truck and a dumpster can sit without blocking neighbors' driveways. Yard and driveway stay protected, and the cleanup afterward is complete.

Plank decking and stacked layers on a pre-war San Fernando roof

The city was incorporated in 1911, and many houses on the streets around San Fernando Road and Maclay Avenue are older than the valley suburbs around them. Valley summers are far hotter than our coastal base, so asphalt roofs age faster in the sun. Old bungalows often carry several layers of roofing over plank decking, and those layers hide trouble. When the old roof comes off, we check the boards and photograph what we find. The process for an older house is covered on the older home roof replacement page.

Roof services San Fernando bungalows ask for most

Chimneys, old quake repairs and the Mission Boulevard blocks

The February 1971 San Fernando earthquake, a magnitude 6.5 to 6.6 event also called the Sylmar quake, badly damaged buildings at Mission San Fernando, which dates to 1797. Homes in the city that predate that quake were built before modern seismic rules, and masonry chimneys are where old repairs, cracked mortar and leaking flashing tend to meet. When we inspect a chimney we photograph the flashing and the mortar line. If yours shows older patches, the photos let you see what is there. Our chimney flashing repair page covers the fix.

Soft boards, tight lots and which city line you are in

Plank decking that has been wet for years goes soft, and damaged boards get replaced before new roofing goes down. Each board is a line in the estimate, with a photo. The city is surrounded by Los Angeles, so confirm your address is inside the San Fernando city limits before you assume which building department applies. Our roof deck repair page explains how that work is scoped.

Why San Fernando permits do not go through Los Angeles

Because the city is independent, it runs its own building department, so a roof here is permitted by San Fernando, not by LADBS. On a re-roof the permit details are ours, and the city can confirm current requirements for your address. How this compares with unincorporated areas is on the Los Angeles County service area page.