Roofing Contractor in Artesia, CA

Storefront roofs and home repairs: what Artesia calls are about

Commercial calls usually concern a leak over a sales floor or kitchen. Storefront roofs on Pioneer Blvd are flat or nearly flat, with parapets facing the street, rooftop HVAC, and exhaust fans over restaurants. Grease from kitchen exhaust softens some roofing membranes, and seams at the back parapet often split first. For homes, most calls are leaks and worn shingle, handled through our roof repair service.

When a house roof is past repair, a full roof replacement with tear-off and deck repair is usually the right call, priced so you can see each line. Storm damage, such as wind-lifted shingles or a branch through the roof, starts with a tarp under our emergency roof repair service.

Small lots, older homes and shared walls in a former dairy town

Artesia is a small city, and its residential blocks are tightly built. Many houses date from the post-war decades and have been expanded with rear rooms or second units. Storefronts often share walls with their neighbors, so a leak at one parapet can show up next door.

The housing traces straight back to the dairies. Portuguese and Dutch dairy families arrived in the 1920s, and after World War II they moved their herds east to Chino and north to the Central Valley as developers bought the pasture for tracts. The 2020 Census counted 4,745 housing units in the city, with 47.6% of occupied homes rented, which is why so many lots carry a rear unit or a converted garage with its own small roof.

• Shared parapet walls between storefronts, where flashing and coping fail and water crosses property lines.
• Restaurant exhaust fans that leave grease on the roof and wear out the membrane around them.
• Older shingle roofs with layered reroofs and tired valleys on the side streets.
• Low-slope additions behind homes, tied in with flashing that was never quite right.

Flat storefront roofs also take the full summer sun. Dark cap sheet and aging tar and gravel crack and shrink over years of heat, and the damage stays hidden behind the parapet until the first winter storm pushes water through.

Booking a visit for a shop or a house

Phone (725) 745-8803 or send a quote request. When crews are free we can be there same-day or next-day, and for businesses we can start early, before customers arrive. Afterward you get photos of each problem and an itemized written quote that keeps permits and any deck or insulation replacement on separate lines.

For storefronts, we ask the tenant and the building owner who is responsible for the roof before we price anything, since leases split that duty in different ways. If neighbors share a parapet, we photograph the shared wall so both owners can see what failed.

Who issues roof permits in Artesia?

As an incorporated city, Artesia either reviews roof permits itself or points you to the office that does. Commercial reroofs may also bring Title 24 cool-roof rules for low-slope roofs. Confirm current requirements with the city. On permitted jobs, we handle the application and the inspection booking.

City Hall sits at 18747 Clarkdale Ave. The whole city covers only 1.62 square miles, surrounded by Cerritos on the west, south and east, with Norwalk to the north, and the Artesia Freeway has its own Pioneer Blvd exit. The city's official name for the Pioneer Blvd shopping strip is the International and Cultural Shopping District, while 183rd St and Norwalk Blvd carry most other local trips. Schools belong to the ABC Unified School District. Jobs here split between storefront flat roofs and shingle reroofs on the small houses behind them.

We also serve the cities around Artesia, including Cerritos and Norwalk, on the same southbound trips.