Roof Replacement in Lakewood — Free Roof Inspection, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Roof Replacement Across Lakewood

A full roof replacement on a Lakewood home typically runs $9,500 – $18,000 for a standard 1950s ranch with architectural shingles, and most jobs take 3 – 5 working days once materials arrive. The wildcard in Lakewood is what’s under the old roof: original skip sheathing from 1950 – 1953 often needs full decking replacement, which adds $1,800 – $3,400 to the final number depending on square footage. Call (855) 382-0485 and we’ll scope the decking before we ever hand you a quote.

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We’re Select Roof Repair, and we work these 90712, 90713, 90714, and 90715 streets every week. Noel Carrasco leads our crews, and he’s walked more Lakewood Park tract roofs than he can count. You’ll get a straight answer on whether your roof needs replacement at all, and a line-item price if it does.

Why Select Roof Repair Is Lakewood’s Preferred Roof Replacement Company

Roofing is the only trade we work. That matters in Lakewood because the housing stock here is so specific – thousands of near-identical 1950s ranches built by S&W and a handful of other tract builders between 1950 and 1953. A general contractor who also remodels kitchens won’t know that these roofs were framed for 1×4 skip sheathing, or that the low-pitch hip configuration traps heat on the back slope in a way that a steeper roof in Long Beach doesn’t. We do.

We stock materials local to Lakewood jobs, not whatever’s left in a warehouse. Because we work across seven manufacturers – GAF, CertainTeed, Owens Corning, IKO, Atlas, Tamko, and Boral – the recommendation gets matched to your roofline and budget, not to a brand contract. When we pull up to a 1952 ranch off Del Amo or a slightly newer one south of Carson Street, we already know which underlayment will handle the smog-baked heat and which shingle profile suits a low-slope hip.

Homeowners here have watched neighbors get oversold whole replacements when a repair would have held for another six or seven years. That’s why we offer standalone roof inspections – no purchase required. Start with the inspection. Then decide. The phrase isn’t marketing; it’s how Noel runs every job.

Asphalt Shingle Roof Replacement in Lakewood

Asphalt Shingle Roof Replacement is the most common full replacement we perform in Lakewood, and for good reason – the original 1950s wood shakes and early asphalt layers on these ranch homes are decades past any serviceable life. A typical tear-off and replacement on a 1,200 – 1,500 sq ft Lakewood home runs $9,500 – $14,000 with architectural shingles, and $12,000 – $18,000 when the job includes decking replacement, which is frequently the case here.

The Decking Variable Lakewood Homeowners Hit

Your quote changes the day we tear off the old roof and see the sheathing. Most Lakewood homes were built with 1×4 skip sheathing – spaced boards, not a solid wood deck – under the original shakes. If it’s cupped, split, or sagging, building code in Los Angeles County won’t let us nail new shingles to it. We install 7/16-inch OSB or plywood first, then underlayment, then shingles. That step is why two Lakewood houses on the same block can have quotes that differ by $3,000.

Ventilation Upgrades on Low-Slope Hips

The classic Lakewood roof is a low-pitch hip with shallow attic space and weak intake venting. Heat builds on that back slope all summer, cooking underlayment from below. When we replace a roof here, we routinely add ridge venting and, where framing allows, intake vents at the eave. It’s the difference between a roof that lasts 25 years in Lakewood and one that fails at 12 because the back slope never breathed.

New Roof Installation in Lakewood

New Roof Installation in Lakewood usually means one of two things: a full re-roof on an existing home where the original structure is too far gone for overlay, or a roof on a new room addition, detached garage, or ADU that the county just permitted. For a standard 1950s ranch, a new roof with architectural shingles and new decking runs $12,000 – $18,000 depending on size and whether we hit structural rot at the eave or rafter tails.

When Additions and ADUs Need Their Own Scope

Lakewood homeowners have been adding on since the 1960s – patio covers, bump-outs, a converted garage here, a permitted ADU there. The original roof and the addition roof usually weren’t tied together well, and the junction flashing is often the first place Lakewood’s dry heat degrades. Before quoting a new roof on a home with additions, we inspect those transition points. A new roof that looks clean from the street but leaks at the old addition seam isn’t a new roof – it’s a future call-back.

County Permitting and the Double-Check Step

Lakewood is a contract city, but roof permits here go through Los Angeles County building code requirements, and the inspection happens by county inspectors. We pull the permit, arrange the inspection, and make sure the decking and underlayment are visible for the inspector at the right stage. Miss that window and the re-inspection delays your project by days. We’ve done enough of these to keep the sequence tight.

Trusted Brands We Service in Lakewood

We install and service roofing systems from seven leading manufacturers, and on Lakewood jobs we lean most often on GAF underlayment, CertainTeed architectural shingles, and Atlas products where a homeowner wants a specific profile or color to match a neighbor’s roof. The right material for your roof, not ours. Because we’re not tied to a single brand contract, a 1952 ranch with a low-pitch hip gets a product spec that fits that roof, not whatever one manufacturer happens to ship. We stock locally for Lakewood customers, so material lead times stay short even when a specific shingle color needs to match the block.

Common Roof Replacement Problems We See in Lakewood Homes

• Skip sheathing failure under the original roof. The 1×4 boards under 1950s wood shakes cup and split over seven decades, and you won’t know until tear-off. This is the single biggest cost variable on Lakewood replacements, and it’s why we scope it before quoting whenever possible.
• Cooked underlayment on back slopes. Low-pitch hips trap heat in the shallow attic, especially on homes facing north-south where one slope takes full afternoon sun. We often find underlayment that looks fine from the attic side but crumbles the moment we touch it.
• Three or four layers of old roofing. Decades of overlays add dead load to wood-framed 1950s ranches and hide rotted fascia and flashing beneath. A leak that looks minor at the ceiling is often structural by the time we open the eave.
• Mismatched patches from prior repairs. A quick patch with whatever shingle was on the truck at the time leaves a roof that leaks at the seams where materials don’t meet. On a hip roof, those seams multiply at the ridges and valleys, which is where Lakewood leaks show up first.

Pricing for Roof Replacement in Lakewood, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Lakewood

Our crews work Lakewood every day, and we regularly run the same roof replacement routes into Roof Replacement in Lakewood’s neighboring cities – Signal Hill, Bellflower, Long Beach, and Paramount. Each has its own mix of old housing stock, and we scope them the same way: decking condition first, ventilation second, then materials. If your roof sits in one of those cities, the same Roof Replacement process applies, and the same crew covers it.

FAQs About Roof Replacement in Lakewood