Pomona Roof Pros: Roof Repair, Replacement & Leak Triage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspection with a written remaining-life estimate for every slope.
- ✓Licensed and insured California C-39 roofing contractor
- ✓A written remaining-life estimate for every roof plane
- ✓Free inspection done on the roof, not from the driveway
- ✓Workmanship warranty in writing on every reroof
Pomona Roof Pros handles roof repair, roof replacement, leak diagnosis and low-slope reroofing across Pomona and the Pomona Valley. We work in architectural laminated shingles, SBS polymer-modified asphalt, original clay barrel tile, concrete flat tile, standing-seam metal and two-ply modified bitumen, on houses running from 1900s bungalows near downtown to the newer hillside tracts.
Most of what we see has been patched rather than replaced, in some cases for twenty years. So the first thing we produce is not a price but a layer count, a deck probe and a remaining-life figure for every roof plane. That is what tells you whether a repair buys real years or whether you are funding a replacement one patch at a time, which is by far the more expensive of the two.
From there the work gets sequenced honestly. We reroof the planes that have to go, repair the ones worth repairing, and say plainly which items to leave alone until tear-off. Licensed, insured roofing pros, a written scope with the deck condition in it, a workmanship warranty in writing, and the reroof permit pulled and inspected rather than skipped.
Why Pomona Chooses Pomona Roof Pros
- ✓Every slope gets its own remaining-life number in years, so you can decide what to fund and when.
- ✓We count layers and probe the deck before quoting, because a hidden third layer changes the entire price.
- ✓We argue against work. Coating aged shingles and reflashing a disused chimney both get talked out of here.
- ✓Staged reroofing across separate planes with their own drainage, never a vertical lap down one slope.
- ✓We tell you before you file whether a carrier will read your roof as storm damage or as ordinary wear.
- ✓Se habla español. Inspections, written scopes and remaining-life reports in Spanish or English.
About Pomona Roof Pros in Pomona, CA
Pomona Roof Pros works on roofs across Pomona and the wider Pomona Valley, from the pre-war bungalows and Spanish Colonial houses near downtown to the tile-roofed hillside tracts and the small commercial buildings along the rail corridor. Licensed, insured roofing pros, city permits pulled, and a written workmanship warranty on every reroof we install.
The reason we lead with a layer count and a remaining-life number is that most roofs here have been patched rather than replaced. Without those two figures, every quote is guesswork and every repair is a gamble on how much life is left. With them, you can decide what to fund this year, what to leave alone, and what to plan for. That is the whole method, and it is why our inspections take longer than a driveway estimate.
When not to hire us: if your roof has years left and the honest fix is a single flashing detail, call a handyman or wait, because we are not the cheapest option on a small job. If a coating over aged shingles is what you want, we will decline it. And if the work is masonry rebuilding, flue relining or interior restoration, that belongs to a different trade and we will tell you so rather than quote it.
Our Roofing Services in Pomona, CA
Roof Replacement & Phasing
A replacement in Pomona is usually a decision about sequence, not product. Most roofs we tear off here have been patched for a decade, so the real question is which planes have to go this year and which can honestly wait.
Roof Leak Diagnosis & Repair
A leak call here is a diagnostic before it is a repair. Pomona takes most of its rain in a handful of winter weeks, so a roof can fail in March and say nothing about it until the following December.
Storm Damage Restoration
Most storm calls in Pomona arrive during a January atmospheric river, and a fair share of them are not storm damage. They are a roof that has been failing quietly for years and finally met four inches of rain in two days.
Hail Damage Assessment
This is the page where we argue against the product. Hail is uncommon in the Pomona Valley, and most roofs we are asked to inspect for hail damage here turn out to have something else wrong with them entirely.
Wind Damage Repair
Wind losses in Pomona almost never start in the middle of a roof. They start at an edge that was already weak: a rake with no drip edge, a starter course nailed too high, or a previous patch bedded in cement instead of fastened down.
Roof Inspections & Life Estimates
An inspection should end with a number of years, not a verdict of good or bad. Ours does.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt is what most of Pomona is roofed with, and the first thing that matters is how many layers of it are up there. That single fact moves the price of the job more than the shingle you choose.
Metal Roofing
We install metal, and on most Pomona houses we will talk you out of it. The reason is structural and financial rather than aesthetic, and it is worth ten minutes of conversation before you spend the difference.
Clay & Concrete Tile Roofing
Pomona has two completely different tile conversations, and confusing them is expensive. One is original clay barrel tile on the 1920s Spanish Colonial stock.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Almost every low-slope roof in residential Pomona is an addition. A rear family room, a 1960s carport enclosure, a porch that acquired a roof, or a bedroom pushed out under a shallow shed plane.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We sell coatings and we turn down most of the requests we get for them. The common ask in Pomona is a coating over an aged asphalt shingle roof, and that is the one job where the money is almost always wasted.
Attic & Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the cheapest thing on a roof and the easiest to do at the wrong moment. Adding vents to a roof with three years left means paying twice, because the right time to solve intake and exhaust is at tear-off.
Skylights & Roof Windows
The commonest skylight on an older Pomona house is a plastic dome on a site-built curb, fitted sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, and it is leaking. There are three honest answers to that and replacement is only one of them.
Gutters & Downspouts
A lot of Pomona houses were built without gutters and are still without them, and that was not always a mistake. Before you spend, it is worth deciding whether this house actually needs them, because in a low-rainfall valley the answer is sometimes no.
Fascia, Soffit & Rafter Tails
On the pre-war houses in and around downtown Pomona the eaves are usually open, with exposed rafter tails and no soffit at all. That detail is worth keeping, and it is also why this repair is carpentry before it is roofing.
Chimney Flashing & Reduction
A chimney is the single likeliest leak on an older Pomona house, and on a great many of them it is also a chimney nobody has lit in twenty years. That combination changes the right answer.
Emergency Tarping
Tarping is a bridge, and the point of a bridge is to be cheap and to hold. In the middle of a January storm the right decision is usually the plain one rather than the tidy one.
Commercial Roofing
The commercial roofs we work on in Pomona are mostly small and old. Masonry storefronts downtown, two-storey mixed-use with apartments over retail, converted industrial along the rail corridor, light-industrial buildings out toward the Fairplex.
Insurance Claim Help
The most useful thing we do on claims is tell people not to file one. Deferred maintenance is the reason most roof claims are denied, and on a patched Pomona roof that finding is very often correct.
Commercial Roofing in Pomona & Across the Pomona Valley
We roof small and mid-size commercial buildings across the valley: masonry storefronts downtown, mixed-use with apartments over retail, converted industrial along the rail corridor, and light-industrial out toward the Fairplex. Most of these are one continuous plane over several tenants on staggered leases, which is why they get patched instead of replaced.
We section the roof at expansion joints, firewalls and curb lines, give each section a remaining-life figure, and order the work against the lease calendar so a landlord can fund a third of the roof a year to a scope written once.
Two-ply SBS modified bitumen, mechanically fastened single-ply, cover board over insulation, and a written dry-in condition at the end of every working day.
- ✓Sectioned roof plans with a remaining-life figure for each section
- ✓Two-ply SBS modified bitumen with granulated cap sheet for traffic areas
- ✓Mechanically fastened single-ply membrane where the deck and run allow
- ✓Half-inch high-density cover board over insulation on every rebuild
- ✓Tapered fill to give genuine slope to drains, not to the low spot
- ✓Through-wall counterflashing at parapets and coping, not sealant beads
- ✓Raised equipment curbs and walkway pads to every serviced unit
- ✓Written dry-in condition daily on tenant-occupied buildings
Recent Projects Across the Pomona Valley
How It Works
- Layer Count and Deck Probe. We cut a sample at a rake to count layers, probe the sheathing for softness through the shingles, and lift tabs at the nailing zone to see whether the mat still holds a fastener. Free, and done on the roof rather than from the driveway.
- A Remaining-Life Number Per Plane. Every slope gets its own figure in years, because a patched roof ages unevenly and the south side is rarely the same as the north. You also get the list of findings we specifically recommend against paying to fix.
- A Sequenced Scope and the Permit. We write the work in the order it should happen, separating planes that can honestly wait from the ones that cannot. Then we pull the reroof permit and schedule the inspection so nothing about the job is undocumented.
- Install, Then Walk It With You. Tear-off, deck repair priced by the sheet, underlayment, flashing and ventilation to the written scope. At the end we walk the roof and the ground with you, hand over the warranty registration, and leave the deck report on file.
What Pomona Customers Say
They cut a sample at the rake, showed me three layers instead of the two I was told, and repriced the tear-off on the spot. Nobody else had been on the roof at all.
I asked for a coating on a fifteen-year-old shingle roof and they refused, then explained why. Did the flashing and the broken tile instead for a third of the price.
We did the garage and the back addition first and left the main roof for this year, exactly as they laid it out. Written life estimate per slope made budgeting easy.
Told me straight that my damage would read as wear and not to file. Then quoted the reroof and built a walkway path so the solar crew stops cracking tile.
Service Areas
Pomona Roof Pros serves Pomona, CA and surrounding communities including:
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I tell whether my Pomona roof needs a repair or a replacement?
By layer count, deck condition and how many times that slope has already been patched. If the shingles around a leak still hold granules and lie flat, and there are one or two prior repairs, a repair buys real years.
If the mat is exposed, tabs snap when lifted, and the slope carries six patches, a repair buys weeks and the money is better held for the tear-off. We give you the figure in years rather than a verdict, so the decision is yours with real information behind it.
Can you put a second layer of shingles over what is already on my house?
Sometimes, but less often than people hope. The ceiling is two total layers of roof covering, and a lot of Pomona houses are already at two from earlier reroofs. Even where an overlay is legal it is not always right: on a cupped plane it telegraphs every ridge through the new finish, adds weight to older framing, and hides the deck for another twenty years. We cut a rake sample first and tell you which situation you are actually in.
My claim was denied for deferred maintenance. What are my options now?
That finding is common here and it is often accurate, because a carrier pays for a sudden event and not for wear. If there was genuine storm damage that a scope missed, we can document it properly with test-square counts, moisture readings and dated photographs, and supplement for code items the original scope skipped.
If the roof simply reached the end of its life, refiling will not change the answer, and the useful move is a staged replacement plan you can fund.
Do you handle hail damage claims in Pomona?
We inspect for hail and we are honest about how rarely we find it here. Most roofs we are called to for suspected hail turn out to have blistering, foot traffic bruising from a rooftop service call, or ordinary granule loss on a roof past its service life.
Real hail is random in placement, consistent in size, soft under a thumb, and it leaves matching marks on vent caps and gutter aprons. If those marks are absent, we say so and we do not file.
Can I reroof the garage or the rear addition now and the main house later?
Yes, when those are separate roof planes with their own drainage, which a detached garage and most low-slope additions are. We can reroof one and leave the pitched roof for next year without leaving a seam anywhere water runs.
What we will not do is split one continuous slope, because a vertical lap in the middle of a field cannot be flashed to last. Very often the addition is the active leak anyway, so it is also the right first move.
Does a reroof in Pomona need a permit and an inspection?
Yes. Reroofing is permitted work, and the permit matters to you beyond compliance: it is what puts your layer count and deck work on record for the next buyer or appraiser. We pull it, schedule the inspection, and confirm the product's CRRC listing against Title 24 cool-roof criteria before ordering rather than after delivery. Houses where a previous layer went on without a permit are exactly the ones where we find three layers instead of two.