Taking a roof the desert has finished with and putting on one built to outlast it. Full tear off, honest deck report, and a written number before anything starts.
01Core service
Replacement is a different job from installation, even though the finished roof looks the same. On a replacement you are inheriting somebody else's decisions, and you do not find out what they were until the old roof is off.
Most Tucson replacements come from one of three places. An asphalt shingle roof that the sun has finished with, usually somewhere between twelve and twenty years in rather than the thirty the packet promised. An exposed fastener metal roof from the nineties where the screws have walked loose and the washers have gone hard, so the panel is fine and the fastener line is not. Or a house that has been coated and recoated until the coating is the only thing holding the assembly together.
We will tell you which of those you have, and we will tell you if the answer is that you do not need a replacement yet. A roof with five honest years left is worth five more years of use.
We replace roofs with metal, and metal only. If the right answer for your house is a different material, we will say so and we have nothing else to sell you.
02What this solves
Brittle, grey, curling at the edges, granules in the scuppers. Heat drives the life out of an asphalt roof here faster than the warranty assumed. Replacing it with metal ends the cycle instead of restarting the clock.
Hundreds of screws, every one of them a hole through the surface, every one worked loose by thirty years of expansion and contraction. Sometimes that is a repair. Once enough holes have elongated, it is a replacement.
Recoating buys time and there is nothing wrong with it, right up until the coating is doing structural work. If the assembly underneath is gone, another coat is money spent on a delay.
03The first visit
How many roofs are already up there changes the tear off, the disposal and the price. It is also the single thing most phone estimates get wrong.
A replacement is a large amount of money. If the honest answer is a repair, or a coating, or waiting two more seasons, that is the answer you get.
Penetrations, parapets, scuppers, swamp cooler curbs and anywhere the roof meets a wall. Those are where the leaks are, and they are where a replacement either fixes the problem or repeats it.
Tear off, layers, disposal, deck repair allowance, panel system, underlayment, flashings, trim and exclusions. On paper, so you can compare it with anyone else you talk to.
04Our process
We look, measure, count layers, and put the price in writing with the system spelled out.
Nobody knows what is under the old roof. Rather than pretend otherwise, we agree a rate and an allowance before we start, so a surprise is a known cost instead of an argument on day two.
Summer work starts at first light and comes off the roof around midday. We do not open a roof up with a storm cell in the forecast. In a monsoon week that can mean waiting, and we would rather wait than tarp your house.
The old roof comes off and the deck gets looked at properly, in daylight, before anything covers it. If we find damage you get told, you get shown, and you decide.
High temperature underlayment across the whole deck, extra membrane at the details, then panels set with the movement allowance the system needs. Flashings formed on site. Every penetration reworked rather than reused.
We walk it with you, show you the details we changed, then clean up and run a magnet over the drive, the gravel and the yard. Tear off throws fasteners a long way.
05Why us
A replacement is the biggest ticket we sell and it is the one most often sold too early. If your roof has years left, you will hear that, in writing, from the people who would have been paid to replace it.
We are not fitting a metal job in between tile and foam work. Panel movement, clip spacing, seam mechanics and flashing forming are the trade, not an occasional variation on it.
Deck repair rate and allowance agreed up front, layers counted before the estimate, exclusions written down. A replacement that comes in at the number on the page is not luck, it is having looked properly first.
Next step
We will get on it, tell you whether it is a repair or a replacement, and put a number on paper either way.
06Proof
We would rather show you a roof than a quote from somebody you have never met. Ask us for an address in your area and go and look at it.
Ask for an address near you07Questions
Square footage is only one of the inputs. Pitch, how many valleys and penetrations there are, how many old layers come off, access for a crew and a dumpster, and the panel system all move the number, and they can move it a long way between two houses of identical size. We measure your roof and put a written number on it.
It depends entirely on the roof, and that is not a dodge. A large, steep, complicated roof with three layers to strip and a standing seam system going back on can reasonably cost that. A simple single storey gable should not. What matters is whether the estimate breaks down what you are buying. If it is one number with no detail behind it, you cannot tell whether it is fair, and neither can we.
It is a building code provision that limits how much of a roof you can repair or overlay before the whole thing has to be brought up to current code. Once the work passes roughly a quarter of the roof area, a patch stops being a patch. It comes up more often than people expect on older Tucson houses that have been repaired in sections over the years. We will tell you if your job is heading toward that line.
It hides the deck, so nothing gets inspected and any soft sheathing stays soft under a new roof. It adds weight. It traps a heat holding layer directly under the metal, which matters a lot more in Tucson than it does in a mild climate. And it can void some manufacturer coverage. It saves real money on tear off and disposal, so it is not always wrong, but it should be a decision rather than a default.
Mostly, do not lead with your budget before anyone has looked at the roof, because it invites an estimate built to the number instead of to the job. Beyond that, the useful move is not withholding anything, it is asking better questions. Ask what the deck repair rate is. Ask what is excluded. Ask what happens if it rains mid job. A contractor who answers those plainly is the one to hire.
Ask them to show you. A photograph of the damage they are describing, from your roof, not a stock example. Ask what they found on the deck and ask to see it before it is covered. Be wary of an estimate that arrives without anyone getting on the roof, of urgency that comes from the salesperson rather than from the weather, and of a number that drops sharply the moment you hesitate.
Most residential metal replacements run a few days once they start, and a complicated roof runs longer. The bigger variable in Tucson is the calendar rather than the clock. Summer work happens in the early hours, and monsoon season can stop a tear off entirely for a day or two. We would rather give you an honest window than a fast promise we have to break.
08Service areas
Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana and Vail, and everywhere between them. Sahuarita, Green Valley, the Catalina Foothills, Corona de Tucson, Catalina, Rita Ranch and Three Points.
Areas we serve08Related
09Get started
Tell us what the roof is doing. We will get on it, look properly, and put the answer in writing. If it does not need work yet, that is what the estimate will say.
Or call(520) 555-0100Mon to Fri, 6am to 3pm. Early hours are not a typo. Summer roofing here starts at first light and comes off the roof around midday.