Mission Viejo, CA
Roof replacement in Mission Viejo
A re-roof is the second-largest cheque most homeowners write on their house, and the one they have the least information about.
Describe the replacement job
Three questions, then the address. Up to three Mission Viejo contractors who do this work.
You are on the list.
No provider in Mission Viejo is taking requests through this service yet. We are lining them up, and yours is kept until one can.
- Nobody gets your details yet. Your request stays with us and is not passed to any company.
- One email when someone can help. When a provider covering your area can take it on, we email you once and ask whether you want that company, by name, to contact you.
- Deleted after 90 days. If nobody can take it on, or you do not say yes, your contact details are deleted 90 days after your request.
- You decide, or you do not. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to pay us.
Nobody will call you about this request unless you say yes to a company by name.
Before you let anybody on the roof
The things worth pinning down on a replacement job. A contractor who has not raised them has not looked properly.
- Ventilation: what is there now, what it should be
- How the site is protected, and who cleans up the nails
- A written per-sheet price for replacing bad decking
- Tear-off or overlay, and what the local code allows
- Who pulls the permit, and what the inspection schedule looks like
Two quotes at the same price can be very different roofs. Compare the layers, not the brand name on the shingle.
Warranties come in two halves that get deliberately confused. The manufacturer covers the material, and only if it was installed to specification. The contractor covers the workmanship, and only for as long as they stay in business.
Insist on knowing what happens to decking that turns out to be rotten. The good answer is a per-sheet price agreed in writing before the job starts.
Locally
The problem that comes up first here is original tract roofs that all went on within a few years of each other. When a whole neighbourhood is built in one push, the roofs wear out in one push too. Forty-plus years on, the failures are no longer random — they are a cohort arriving at the same time.
About replacement here
What does a new roof cost in Mission Viejo?
For a typical Mission Viejo home of about 24 squares, an architectural asphalt re-roof usually lands between $14,000 and $31,000. Tile, slate and standing-seam metal run well above that. The number moves on how many old layers come off, how much decking is soft underneath, and how easily a truck can get to the house.
It is leaking right now. What do I do?
Contain the water, photograph everything, and get the request in marked as an emergency. A tarp is the right first job. The permanent repair is a separate conversation and a separate price.
Why three quotes and not one?
One quote is a number with no context. Three gives you a range, and the conversation about why they differ is where you learn what you are actually buying.
I rent. Can I use this?
You can submit it, but the owner has to authorise any work, so the useful move is to get the landlord to make the request or to give you permission in writing first. Contractors will not start work for a tenant.
Find out what it costs
Free, no obligation, and your details go to no company until you say yes.