Roof Replacement in San Diego - Free Inspection, Itemized Written Quote

Fast, Reliable Roof Replacement Across San Diego

Roof replacement in San Diego typically costs between $11,000 and $24,000 for a standard asphalt shingle tear-off and reroof on a single-family home, with most jobs landing around $14,000 to $18,000. Architectural shingles run higher, from $16,000 to $28,000. Our crews work every neighborhood from Ocean Beach to Rancho Bernardo, and we answer the phone at (619) 393-3877 every time you call. That’s a live person, 24 hours a day, not a callback queue. You’ll get a written price before any work starts, and every job carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise.

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Why Tilehurst Roofing San Diego Is San Diego’s Preferred Roof Replacement Company

Tilehurst Roofing is part of the Kingswell family of roofing companies, founded in 2000. We built this San Diego location for homeowners who’ve been through it already: the no-show crew, the price that changed at the door, the repair that failed in two months. That’s why every San Diego job starts with a written price in your hands before a single nail goes down. The crew that shows up is background-checked and uniformed, and you’ll know exactly who’s on your roof.

Greg Holloway leads our San Diego operation. He’s the name behind the guarantee, and he stands by the Roof Replacement work we do here. When a homeowner in Clairemont tells us the original 1970s shingles snapped off after the first heavy rain, we know what that looks like. We’ve torn off more than a few of those roofs. If a repair fails inside the guarantee period, our crew returns at no charge. That’s not a promise we mail you later. It’s in your hands before we leave the job.

Our San Diego office dispatches crews across the metro area, so scheduling is local. You call, a live person answers, we put you on the calendar in the window we give, and we show up. No voicemail, no waiting until Monday morning.

New Roof Installation in San Diego

New Roof Installation in San Diego means starting from the deck up, which is a different scope from a reroof. We see this most often on additions, ADUs, and new construction across San Diego, where the County of San Diego handles permitting for unincorporated areas and the City handles permits inside city limits. A full new roof on a typical San Diego single-family home runs $14,000 to $30,000 depending on material, pitch, and the number of penetrations.

County vs. City Permitting

If your property sits in unincorporated San Diego County, the permitting path is different than a city lot in, say, La Mesa. We pull the permits either way and coordinate the inspections. You shouldn’t have to figure out which building department has jurisdiction. That’s part of the job.

New Construction and Detached Structures

Building a detached ADU or a shop on your San Diego property means the roof gets spec’d before the framing goes up. We coordinate with your builder on load, ventilation, and underlayment so the roof matches the structure, not the other way around.

Reroofing in San Diego

Reroofing in San Diego is what most homeowners actually need: the existing roof has reached the end of its life, and we tear it off and install a new system. A full tear-off and reroof with architectural asphalt shingles on a standard San Diego home runs $14,000 to $22,000. If decking repair is needed, that adds $2.50 to $4.00 per square foot of replaced sheathing.

Tear-Off vs. Overlay

California code allows one overlay in some cases, but we almost never recommend it in San Diego. Layering new shingles over old ones traps heat and moisture, and in coastal zones that marine moisture is already doing damage underneath. A tear-off lets us inspect the decking and replace what’s rotted before it fails. On a 1970s ranch in Clairemont, our crew tore off original composition shingles that had cooked brittle in decades of inland sun. They snapped off in chunks and exposed cracked plywood decking. We replaced the rotted decking, laid new synthetic underlayment with a drip edge, and installed GAF architectural shingles with a ridge vent sized for the home’s low-slope roofline.

Decking Replacement

Rotted decking is common under San Diego roofs, especially on shaded north-facing slopes where marine-layer moisture sits under the shingles. We quote decking replacement as a line item per square foot, so you see exactly what you’re paying for before we start. No surprise change orders at the door.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Diego

We install materials from GAF, CertainTeed, Owens Corning, and IKO, plus several others. That matters in San Diego because the right product changes by neighborhood. Coastal homes around Point Loma need underlayment and flashing that handle salt air. Inland roofs in Mira Mesa need shingles rated for heavy UV. We source locally so the materials are in our San Diego yard, not backordered from somewhere else. You get to choose based on your home and your budget, not what happens to be on the truck.

Common Roof Replacement Problems We See in San Diego Homes

• Brittle composition shingles on 1950s-1980s homes. Decades of UV exposure in neighborhoods like Allied Gardens and Clairemont leave shingles snapping off in chunks during the first heavy rain. The granules are gone and the asphalt has dried out.
• Rotted plywood decking under shaded slopes. Homes on the coastal side of San Diego, especially bungalows with original wood shake roofs, trap marine-layer moisture on north-facing slopes. The decking rots before the shingles show visible failure.
• Corroded flashing and fasteners near the coast. Salt air from Ocean Beach to La Jolla eats through galvanized flashing in 8 to 10 years. We spec stainless or copper on coastal replacements so the roof doesn’t leak around valleys and penetrations.
• Undersized ventilation on low-slope roofs. Many older San Diego ranch homes were built with minimal ridge venting. On a tile-to-asphalt replacement in Rancho Bernardo, upgrading ventilation is often the difference between an asphalt roof lasting 15 years or 25.

Pricing for Roof Replacement in San Diego, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near San Diego

Tilehurst Roofing San Diego works in Coronado, Chula Vista, Lemon Grove, and La Mesa regularly. If you’re in one of those cities and need Roof Replacement in San Diego standards of workmanship, call us at (619) 393-3877. Same written price, same guarantee, same crew standards.

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