San Francisco Roofing Contractor for Roof Repair & Replacement

Check the license on the CSLB website (roofing is a C-39 license), ask for insurance certificates, and get a written, itemized estimate. Pick a roofer who pulls the DBI permit, has real flat-roof experience on SF row houses and Victorians, and photographs the work. Read reviews on Google and Yelp, not only on the company's own site.

Start with independent reviews on Google and Yelp and read the recent ones, including the low-star reviews and how the company answered them. Look for jobs like yours, such as flat roofs on row houses or leaks at a shared wall. Then confirm the C-39 license and any complaint history on the CSLB website. Our own customer reviews are on our reviews page, and you can check our license the same way.

Yes. Alpha Eagle Roofing holds a California C-39 roofing contractor license (CSLB #1148511), is bonded and insured, and is based in the city at 1160 Battery St, Suite 100. A state license covers work in San Francisco; the permit for each job comes from DBI.

Yes. A reroof in San Francisco needs a building permit from the Department of Building Inspection. We pull it, schedule the inspections and arrange street space for a debris box when the job needs it. The permit is listed in your written estimate.

Yes, that is most of our work in the city. We usually install modified bitumen or a single-ply membrane such as TPO, with new parapet flashing and drainage. The right system depends on the building, any roof deck or solar, and how the roof drains, and we recommend one in writing after the inspection.

Yes. The joint between your roof and the neighbor's wall or parapet is one of the most common leak points in the city. We rebuild the flashing at that joint and tie it into your roof membrane.

Fog keeps the roof damp, salt air corrodes metal, and ocean wind drives rain into every seam. Corrosion-resistant flashing, a membrane suited to ponding and clear drainage help the roof last longer.

Repair it when the roof is sound and the water is getting in at one detail, such as a parapet cap, a shared-wall joint, a skylight or a scupper. Replace it when water ponds across a flat roof, leaks keep coming back after patches, or there are several old layers or soft decking. After the free inspection we put the option that fits in writing, and both when both are reasonable.

The city lists the reroofing permit at $514 and up for single-family homes and duplexes and $714 and up for other buildings, plus any other fees the project triggers. The street space fee is included in the reroofing permit fee. The permit is its own line in our written estimate.

For a landmark building, the reroofing application needs a Planning approval letter, or SF Planning's confirmation that none is needed, plus photos of the existing roof, and the city reviews it before issuing the permit. We check the property's status before we quote and include that step in the schedule.

The Better Roofs Ordinance applies to most new construction: since January 1, 2017 those projects must put solar, a living roof or both on 15 to 30 percent of the roof. A reroof of an existing home is not new construction. If you plan to add solar, we lay out the new roof so the panels and the membrane can both be serviced.

Yes. On condo and TIC buildings the roof is usually shared property, so the HOA or all the co-owners approve the work. We inspect, write one itemized estimate everyone can review, and plan access, street space and the schedule around the residents.