Roofing in Clovis, CA
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repairs - $14–20kTile lift & relay,
tile reused - $9–13Per sq ft,
composition shingle - FreeInspection,
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- We pull Clovis permits with the City, not the County
- We’ve worked with HOA boards and their consultants
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What Clovis roofs are actually like
Most of Clovis is tile. The tile is rarely what failed.
Clovis has the heaviest concentration of 1980s and 90s concrete tile tract housing anywhere in this market. Street after street of it, most of it originally roofed by whoever came in lowest on a production builder’s bid sheet. There’s plenty of composition shingle here too, and we get to that below — but tile is what most of these streets are wearing, so start there.
The tile they used was fine. Concrete tile runs fifty years and more, and on most of these houses it’s barely halfway through its life. The underlayment beneath it was the cheapest product that passed inspection in 1994, and it dies at twenty to twenty-five years.
Do that arithmetic on a house built in 1993 and you land somewhere around now.
This is why a lot of Clovis homeowners get told they need a full tear-off when what they need is a lift-and-relay — the same tile lifted, new underlayment underneath, tile reset. Fourteen to twenty thousand instead of twenty-five to forty, because nobody buys new tile.
It isn’t always the answer. Sometimes the deck is gone, sometimes the original install was wrong in ways that can’t be salvaged, and then a full replacement really is the right call. But you should find out which one you’re looking at before you sign, not after.
If your roof is composition, not tile
Different material, same argument. A comp roof doesn’t have a fifty-year layer sitting on a twenty-five-year layer, so when the shingle is finished, it’s finished — and in Valley heat that’s usually somewhere between twenty and thirty years depending on what the builder put down. Replacement runs $9 to $13 a square foot installed.
But most of the comp roofs we get called to in Clovis aren’t at the end of anything. They have one failed flashing, one bad valley, or one penetration that was never sealed properly. That’s a repair in the $800 to $1,500 range, not a roof. The two-story splash, the pigeons and the debris-packed valleys further down this page happen on comp roofs here just as readily as on tile — they come from how these houses are laid out, not from what they’re covered in.
What goes wrong here specifically
Four things we find on Clovis roofs and almost nowhere else
Not general roofing problems. These are patterns that come from how this housing stock was built and where it sits.
Pigeons under the tile
Concrete tile leaves a gap at the eave and pigeons move straight into it. Nesting material and droppings pack the space where water is supposed to run, and it backs up under the tile instead. Solar arrays make it worse — the panels create a sheltered, undisturbed deck that birds treat as an apartment block.
Two-story splash
An upper roof plane dumps its entire volume onto a narrow lower section, often with no gutter to carry it away. The same eighteen inches take that hit every storm for thirty years. The rest of the roof can be fine while that one strip is completely gone.
Moss and debris in the valleys
Valleys carry the most water on any roof. Fill them with needles, leaves and moss and the water stops running and starts sitting — then works sideways under the tile edges, chipping them and rotting what’s underneath.
And the one nobody wants to say out loud
Production builders hired the cheapest roofer on the bid. That’s not a slight on your house — it’s just how tract construction was priced. But it means the flashing details, the valley work and the transitions were done fast, and thirty years later that’s where they’re failing. We open up a Clovis roof and find installation shortcuts more often than we find worn-out material.
Look at the tile sitting on the right of that photo. Not cracked, not spalled, decades of life left in it. Six inches away the underlayment is gone and the battens have rotted through. That is a Clovis roof in one frame.
Three real Clovis jobs
What we found, what we did, what it cost
Twenty-eight panels and a pigeon colony
Leaks in a house with a full solar array. The panels came off — all twenty-eight of them — and underneath was years of pigeon droppings packed in behind the attachment brackets, right where water needed to run. It had nowhere to go but sideways and down through the roof.
New underlayment, pigeon proofing fitted around the array so it couldn’t happen again, and every panel reset. We do the removal and reset in-house, electrical disconnect included, so there was no second contractor and no gap where nobody owned the job.
$13,500, one price, agreed before we started — panels off and reset, new underlayment, proofing fitted.
The living room wall that was really a gutter problem
Water showing up inside, down a living room wall. On the roof, the second story was discharging onto a lower plane with nothing to catch it, and it had been landing in the same place long enough to destroy the underlayment and the battens under it.
Gutters and downspouts added so the water had somewhere to go, the failed underlayment replaced, and everything put back to code. $3,900. Nobody needed a new roof.
The patio transition that turned into a replacement
This one went the other way, and we’ll say so plainly because it’s the honest half of the argument. A leak where the patio roof met the tile. We opened it up expecting a transition detail and found installation problems across the roof — the kind that get built in on day one and stay hidden until water finds them.
The fascia had rotted, because water had been running where it was never meant to for years. That became a full replacement with fascia work, $29,000. We don’t pretend every Clovis roof is a repair. Some of them genuinely need replacing, and this one did.
Clovis, specifically
Permits, HOAs and the tracts we know
Clovis issues its own building permits. You’re dealing with the City of Clovis, not Fresno County, and we pull them ourselves rather than handing you a form and wishing you luck.
HOAs are a real factor in the newer tracts, and several of them use outside consultants to review roofing submissions. We’ve been through that process plenty of times — with the boards and with the consultants they hire. Tell us your HOA when you call and we’ll tell you what they’ll want to see.
We’ve worked Harlan Ranch and Copper River extensively, along with the older tile tracts through the middle of town. Different build eras, different underlayment, different failure timelines — and different answers about whether you need a relay or a replacement.
Clovis sits inside our Fresno service area, so it’s the Fresno office and the Fresno crews that cover it. Calls are answered around the clock by a person, not a machine, which matters more than it sounds like it does when you find a stain on the ceiling at nine at night.
The office that covers Clovis
4545 N Brawley Ave Ste 105
Fresno, CA 93722
Phone
Hours
Open 24 hours — calls answered and booked live, day or night.
We don’t have a Clovis storefront and won’t pretend to. Clovis is covered out of the Fresno office by the same crews, which is why you get a Fresno address and a real one.
Straight answers
Clovis roofing questions
My Clovis roof is 30 years old. Do I need a new roof?
If it’s tile, probably not the one you were quoted. On 1980s and 90s Clovis tract housing the concrete tile usually has decades left while the underlayment beneath it is finished — that’s a lift-and-relay, roughly $14,000–20,000 against $25,000–40,000 for a full tear-off and new tile. If it’s composition, thirty years is genuinely near the end and replacement runs $9–13 a square foot. Either way we look first and tell you which situation you’re in.
Do you pull the permit in Clovis?
Yes. Clovis issues its own permits through the City rather than through Fresno County, and we handle that as part of the job.
We have solar. Can you still work on the roof?
Yes, and we do the panel removal and reset ourselves including the electrical disconnect and reconnect. Most roofers won’t touch panels at all, which leaves the homeowner coordinating a roofer and an installer who each blame the other. One company owns the whole job here.
Birds have got under our tiles. Is that actually a roofing problem?
It becomes one. Nesting material and droppings block the paths water is supposed to take, so water backs up under the tile instead of running off it. We’ve pulled a full solar array in Clovis for exactly that. Clearing it is part of the fix; keeping them out afterwards is the other part.
Our HOA has to approve the roof. Have you dealt with that?
Many times, including with the outside consultants some Clovis HOAs use to review submissions. Tell us which association you’re in when you call and we’ll tell you what they typically require.
Find out which layer is actually failing.
Free inspection anywhere in Clovis, recorded so you can see the problem yourself, and a written flat-rate price before anything starts.