Roofing Contractor in Santa Rosa, CA

That mix means there is no single Santa Rosa roof. A 1955 ranch on a wide lot with a shallow pitch and three layers of composition on it is a completely different job from a 2020 rebuild in Coffey Park with a Class A assembly already in place. We quote what is actually on your house.

The Tubbs Fire in October 2017 reshaped roofing in this city. Thousands of homes were lost across Coffey Park and Fountaingrove, and what went back up was built to a very different standard — Class A fire-rated assemblies, ember-resistant venting and closer attention to what happens at the eaves. Those rebuilds are now approaching a decade old, which is exactly the age at which flashings, pipe boots and sealant details start to want a look.

Above Fountaingrove and out through the eastern hills toward Oakmont and Annadel, homes sit in or against wildland-urban interface territory, and the fire-rating requirements are not a suggestion. Metal and tile assemblies carry Class A ratings, and so do modern composition systems installed as a rated assembly — which one is right depends on the house, the pitch and the budget, and that is a conversation worth having before a re-roof rather than after.

Down on the valley floor the issues are different and more mundane. Long shallow-pitch ranch roofs collect debris in the valleys, decades-old skylight curbs leak, and the flat-roofed additions built onto so many Santa Rosa ranch homes in the 1970s are usually the first thing to fail. Those transitions between a pitched main roof and a flat rear section are the most reliable leak path on this kind of house.