Roofing in Selma, CA
Most Selma roofs we’re called to need a repair, not a replacement.
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Selma, Kingsburg, Fowler and the surrounding Fresno County farmland.
Calls answered 24 hours. Free inspection for homeowners.
- $800+Single-issue
repairs - $14–20kTile lift & relay,
tile reused - $9–13Per sq ft,
composition shingle - FreeInspection,
recorded on video
- Selma pulls its own permits — unless your address is County, and we know which is which
- Every job on this page was a repair. Not one needed a new roof
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What actually fails here
The valley the builder gave you was already the cheap option
Go around Selma’s tile roofs and you find something you don’t see as often in town: composition valleys. Not metal — rolled composition material running down the valley between two tile planes.
That wasn’t a shortcut at the time. When a lot of these houses were built, the three-crown and five-crown metal valleys we use now simply weren’t available, so a composition valley was what went in. Fair enough. But it is the wrong material sitting in the highest-water part of the roof, and thirty years later it’s where the failures are.
A composition valley holds debris. Metal sheds it. And this is where Selma differs from anywhere else we work.
Farm dust packs into a composition valley far faster than leaf litter alone ever would, and once it’s packed the water stops running down the valley and starts going sideways under the tile edges. From there it works its way to the eave, and the first thing you see from the ground is stained, soft fascia and rafter tails.
Which is why the second photo further down this page — a rotted eave — is really a photograph of a valley problem. The damage always shows up somewhere other than where it started.
The good news, and it is genuinely good
Almost none of this needs a new roof. The tile on these houses has decades left. A failed valley is a valley job: strip it back, put proper metal in, replace the underlayment around it and any wood the water reached. Hundreds or low thousands, not tens of thousands.
That’s why every job on this page is a repair. Selma is a repair market and anyone quoting the whole roof by default isn’t looking hard enough.
If you’re collecting quotes
Comparing roofing companies in Selma
Most people looking at roofing companies in Selma are holding one quote and trying to work out whether it’s honest. Here is what separates them, and all of it works on us as well as on anybody else.
Ask whether it’s the valley or the roof
This is the Selma question. On a tile roof out here the failure is usually one composition valley that packed with dust and let go, and the tile around it is fine. If a company quotes the whole roof without telling you what specifically failed and where, they have priced the easy answer rather than the right one.
Ask whether they know which permit office you fall under
Selma issues its own permits — unless your address sits in Fresno County territory, and then it doesn’t. A contractor who works here knows to check which side of that line you’re on before scheduling anything.
Run the licence
Ours is CSLB #1030917. Put it into the state’s Check A License tool and you’ll see status, bond and workers’ compensation in about thirty seconds. Do the same to everyone else who quoted you.
Make them show you the failure
Not the roof — the failure. We record every inspection and hand over the footage without being asked. On a Selma roof that usually means footage of a packed valley, which is a thing you can look at and understand in five seconds without knowing anything about roofing.
Written, flat-rate, before anyone starts
Every figure on this page — $5,500, $2,500, $1,500 — was agreed in writing before work began.
Any company worth hiring answers all five without hesitating. That’s the real difference between roofing companies in Selma, and it has very little to do with which one came in cheapest.
Three real Selma jobs
What we found, what we did, what it cost
The eave that was really a valley — $2,500
Stained, softening eave boards, visible from the driveway. The eave wasn’t the problem. Water had been coming down a failed valley, running under the tile and out at the bottom of the roof, and the eave was just the last place it passed through on the way to being visible.
New metal flashings in the valley, the underlayment around it replaced, and the wood that had gone soft cut out and replaced. Fix the valley and the eave stops being a recurring expense.
The ceiling that had been wet more than once — $1,500
Look at the photo. That isn’t one leak — a single event dries to a clean brown ring. Mold growing in the middle of a stain means that ceiling got wet, dried, and got wet again, repeatedly, over a long stretch.
Fifteen hundred dollars to find the source and repair it. Had that call come the first winter the stain appeared, it would have been less, and there’d be nothing growing in the drywall now.
Repair with ridge ventilation added — $5,500
The photo at the top of this page is this job: the ridge opened up, synthetic underlayment in, and ridge ventilation going in as part of the repair rather than as an upsell afterwards.
Attics in this valley run brutally hot in summer, and heat that has nowhere to leave works on the roof from underneath for its whole life. If we have the ridge open anyway, adding ventilation is the cheapest it will ever be — and it’s the kind of decision that shows up as a longer roof life rather than as anything you’ll notice next week.
Fifty-five hundred, and still a repair. Not a replacement.
Selma, specifically
Permits, dust and older housing
Selma issues its own building permits through the city — unless your address is Fresno County territory, in which case it goes through the County instead. We check which one applies before anything gets scheduled, because getting that wrong stalls a job before it starts.
The housing here is older on average than Fresno or Clovis, which is exactly why it’s a repair market. Older roofs on well-built houses, mostly tile, mostly with one specific thing wrong rather than general end-of-life.
And the fields matter more than people expect. Ag dust doesn’t just fill valleys — it settles into every part of the roof that’s supposed to stay clear, which is a strong argument for having somebody look at a Selma roof on a schedule rather than waiting for a stain. That’s what the annual maintenance plan is for.
Selma is covered out of the Fresno office by the same crews that work the rest of the county. We also cover Sanger and Clovis.
The office that covers Selma
4545 N Brawley Ave Ste 105
Fresno, CA 93722
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Open 24 hours — calls answered and booked live, day or night.
No Selma address, and we won’t invent one. Selma is worked out of the Fresno office by the same crews.
Straight answers
Selma roofing questions
Who issues the permit for my Selma roof?
Selma issues its own permits through the city, unless your address falls in Fresno County territory, in which case it goes through the County. We check which applies to your address and handle it either way.
What’s wrong with the valleys on Selma tile roofs?
A lot of them are composition rather than metal, because three-crown and five-crown metal valleys weren’t available when these houses were built. Composition holds debris where metal sheds it, and out here the debris includes field dust. Once a valley packs, water goes sideways under the tile instead of down the valley.
My eaves are stained and soft. Do I need new fascia?
You need the wood replaced, but that’s the symptom. Water reaching an eave on a tile roof usually started at a valley or a flashing further up. Replace the fascia without fixing that and you’ll be replacing it again. We look for the source first.
There’s mold around the water stain on my ceiling. Is that serious?
It means the ceiling has been wet more than once. A single leak dries to a clean stain; growth in the middle of one means repeated wetting over a long period. The roofing fix is usually still small — it’s the damage inside that grows while it waits.
Does my Selma roof need replacing?
Usually not. This is a repair market: older tile roofs with one specific failure rather than general end-of-life. Every job on this page was a repair. If yours genuinely needs replacing we’ll say so, but that’s not where the odds sit here.
Find the valley before you pay for the roof.
Free inspection anywhere in Selma, recorded so you can see it yourself, and a written flat-rate price before anything starts.