Chandler, AZ · AZ ROC #331482, CR-42
We lift a tile and photograph what is under it before we quote you a number. Nobody should buy a roof on a guess made from the pavement.
A tile roof, in section
Everyone buys the top layer. The one in turquoise is the one that decides when your roof needs doing — and it is the only one you have never seen.
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What is actually up there
Pull it apart. The tile on top is the bit you paid for and the bit that lasts; the layer doing the actual work is the one nobody has ever seen.
Building the roof…
Top to bottom
Tap a layer — on the model or in the list — to see what it does and how long it lasts in Arizona sun.
Underlayment is the layer that decides when this roof needs doing — about 20–25 years here. Everything above it usually has plenty left.
You keep your concrete tile and batten and fasteners. What is new is the underlayment.
Your existing tile, new underlayment underneath. $5.50–$8.50 a square foot.
Before you price anything
Two questions, and you will know whether this is a job for this year or for the next decade. It will happily tell you to go away — most roofs we look at are not ready.
The clock
The dashed window is when this kind of roof typically needs doing in Arizona — 20 to 25 years.
Put a year in and this will tell you where you stand — including, quite often, that there is nothing to do for years.
This is an estimate from the age of the roof, not a diagnosis. Only lifting tile tells you the truth, and that part is free.
No appointment required
Arizona roofs are quoted per SQUARE FOOT of roof, not per 100 sq ft square the way asphalt is priced elsewhere. Permit is $200-$600 depending on the town, and it is inside our number, not added afterwards.
2,800 sq ft of roof
Roof area is bigger than floor area: a single-storey home with a 4:12 tile roof and normal overhangs runs about 1.15 to 1.2 times its floor plan.
600 sq ft→ sets the foam recoat price
A foam recoat is priced on the FLAT area alone — the patio or addition — not the whole roof. Most East Valley homes have 300 to 2,000 sq ft of it.
Included in every number
Tile lift and re-lay · 2,800 sq ft of roof
$15,400 – $23,800
A working range, from the roof area and the system you have chosen. The written number comes after we have lifted tile and seen the deck, and it normally lands inside this range.
What we do
Every one of these can be booked on this page in under a minute. Press a card and it goes straight into the form with the price attached.
A working range, from the roof area and the system you have chosen. The written number comes after we have lifted tile and seen the deck, and it normally lands inside this range.
No charge, no obligation
We lift tile in three places, photograph what is underneath, and tell you how many years it has left. You get the photographs whether you buy anything or not.
How it works
Most of it happens before anybody picks up a phone, which is why we can be on your roof tomorrow.
Size it on this page, or just ring. Either way you have a range before anybody visits.
Free, usually within 48 hours in season. Three lifts, photographs of the underlayment, a look at the valleys and the flat sections, and a written note of how many years are left.
Permit, disposal, breakage allowance and all. Written, itemised, and it does not move unless we find rotten deck — which we photograph before we replace, sheet by sheet.
Part of the roof is always closed in, and anything open is sheeted at the end of every day. We plan around the monsoon forecast, not around our own diary.
We meet the town inspector, you get the sign-off, the photographs and the twelve-year workmanship warranty in writing. The skip is gone the same day.
What you can hold us to
Every estimate starts by lifting tile in three places and photographing the underlayment. A number worked out from the kerb is a number worked out from nothing, and it is why quotes for the same roof come back thousands apart.
Concrete tile outlives the house. We stage yours on site, re-lay the same tile, and cover breakage from matching stock at our cost up to 5% of the roof. Above that we tell you before we order anything.
If we have started and a storm is forecast before we are watertight, we sheet the roof that evening at no charge. That is our scheduling problem, not your ceiling.
15 June to 30 September
15 June to 30 September officially, and it is the reason we plan tile work around the forecast. A storm cell can arrive in twenty minutes. If we have opened a roof and a storm is coming, we sheet it that evening at no charge — that is our scheduling problem, not your ceiling.
What we do about it
What we don’t
Why homeowners call us
Six things we do differently, and every one of them came from a complaint about somebody else.
Three places, photographed, every time. A number worked out from the driveway is a guess, and guesses are why quotes for one roof come back five thousand dollars apart.
Most people ring a roofer and get a price for a new roof. What they wanted to know was how long the one they have got left. We answer that first, and sometimes the answer is 'come back in eight years'.
Concrete tile outlives the house. Re-laying yours is cheaper than buying new, and it keeps the roof looking like it always did — which matters in a neighbourhood where every house was tiled at the same time.
Per square foot, for all four systems, before you hand over a phone number. Move the roof size on this page and the range moves with it.
CR-42 covers tile, shingle, foam and coatings. Most East Valley homes are a tile field plus a flat section, and one crew doing both means nobody argues about whose side of the join the leak is on.
Straight away. We cover the East Valley properly rather than the whole Valley badly.
What people say
Three roofers quoted from the driveway. Ocotillo put a ladder up, lifted tile in three spots and showed me photographs of felt that had turned to dust. Same tile back on, you cannot tell anyone was here.
Expected to be told I needed a whole roof. Got a cracked valley flashing fixed for four hundred dollars and a note saying the underlayment had about six years left. Honest people.
They measured the coating thickness in front of me and left the readings on the invoice. The last company just sprayed and went.
Started a day late because a monsoon cell came through. They rang me about it rather than leaving me wondering, and sheeted the open section overnight for nothing.
Paying for it
Through our finance partner, subject to approval. Terms of 60, 120 and 180 months.
Get my free estimateStraight answers
Because the tile is not the roof. The tile is a rain screen and a sunshade; the layer that actually keeps water out is the underlayment beneath it, and in Arizona heat that has about twenty to twenty-five years in it. The tile really will last fifty years or more, which is why we lift it, replace the paper, and put the same tile back.
Almost always, and we plan on it. We stage it on the roof, work underneath, and re-lay it. Some breakage is normal in handling — we cover up to 5% of the roof from matching stock at our cost, and if your profile is discontinued we find that out before we start, not halfway through.
Lift and re-lay with new underlayment runs $5.50 to $8.50 a square foot of roof. A complete new tile system is $8.50 to $14.00. Architectural shingle is $4.50 to $7.00. A foam recoat is $2.50 to $5.50. Roof area is bigger than floor area — reckon on about 1.15 to 1.2 times your floor plan.
Yes for a re-roof, and no it is not extra. Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe and Mesa all require one, it runs $200 to $600 depending on the town and the roof, and it is inside the number we give you. We pull it and we meet the inspector.
15 June to 30 September officially, and it is the reason we plan tile work around the forecast. A storm cell can arrive in twenty minutes. If we have opened a roof and a storm is coming, we sheet it that evening at no charge — that is our scheduling problem, not your ceiling.
You are never without one. Tile work is done in sections, so part of the roof is always closed in. A typical 2,800 square foot tile re-lay is three to five days on site, and we sheet anything open at the end of every day.
Both, and most East Valley homes need both — a tile field with a flat section over a patio or an addition. Our CR-42 licence covers tile, shingle, foam and coatings, so one crew handles the whole roof rather than two firms blaming each other at the join.
Yes, and this is a large part of what we do. We will get on it, lift tile, photograph the underlayment and give you a written note of what it needs and roughly what that costs, so you have a real number to take back into the negotiation.