Roofing in Modesto, CA
Repair, replace, or just find out what’s wrong. We look before we quote.
1,200+ reviews · 4.8★ on Google Licensed & insured · CSLB #1030917
Modesto, Ceres, Riverbank, Oakdale and Salida.
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
- Tile or composition, repair or replacement — we diagnose it before pricing it
- Manufactured homes and patio structures included, not turned away
Find out what’s actually wrong
Two minutes, three questions. We come out, record what we find, and show you.
Free for homeowners · $299 for real estate transactions
Repair, replace, or find out first
Three ways a Modesto roof job usually starts
Almost everybody arrives here in one of three situations. All three start the same way — somebody goes up, looks properly, and shows you what they found.
Something is leaking
A stain, a drip, a wet spot after the first real rain. Most of the time it’s one flashing, one valley or one penetration, and it’s a repair in the $800–1,500 range rather than a roof.
How we track down a leak →The roof is genuinely done
Composition at the end of its life runs $9–13 a square foot to replace. On tile it’s usually a lift-and-relay at $14,000–20,000 rather than a $25,000–40,000 tear-off. Different answers, so we find out which first.
When replacement is the right call →You just want it checked
Buying, selling, or holding somebody else’s quote and unsure about it. Free for homeowners, recorded, and you keep the footage whether you hire us or not.
Get a second opinion →What we find most often in Modesto
On tile roofs it’s shot underlayment under tile that’s still perfectly good. Not occasionally — routinely. Lift a tile on a house of a certain age around here and the felt beneath it is brittle and finished, while the tile on top of it has decades of service left.
Concrete tile runs fifty years and more. The felt under it gets twenty to twenty-five in this heat. Those two numbers were never going to run out together, and when the felt goes the roof starts leaking while looking completely healthy from the street.
That distinction is worth ten to twenty thousand dollars to you. Replacing the underlayment and putting the same tile back — a lift-and-relay — runs roughly $14,000–20,000. A full tear-off with new tile is $25,000–40,000. Same leak, same house, wildly different invoice, and the only way to know which one you need is for somebody to lift tile and look underneath.
So that’s what we do before quoting anything. Free, recorded, and you keep the footage whether you hire us or not.
If your roof is composition
Different material, simpler arithmetic. A comp roof doesn’t have a fifty-year layer sitting on a twenty-five-year layer — when the shingle is finished, it’s finished, and in Valley heat that’s usually twenty to thirty years depending on what went down. Replacement runs $9–13 a square foot.
But plenty of the comp roofs we’re called to aren’t at the end of anything. One failed flashing, one bad valley, one penetration somebody put through it and never sealed. That’s a repair, and we’ll say so even though it’s the smallest invoice we could write.
The rest of it isn’t dramatic, it’s just ignored
Debris and nesting material packed in at the eaves, holding moisture against wood until the wood gives up. Patio covers and low-slope additions tied into the main roof badly or not at all. Older roofs at twenty years that nobody has looked at since the day they went on.
None of that needs a hero. It needs somebody to go up, look properly, and say what they found.
If you’re collecting quotes
Comparing roofing companies in Modesto
Most people looking at roofing companies in Modesto 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 them what specifically failed
Not “the roof is old” — what failed, and where. On tile that means asking which layer they’re quoting, because shot felt under good tile is the norm here and it’s a ten-to-twenty-thousand-dollar difference. On composition it means asking whether the whole roof is finished or one detail is leaking. A company that can’t answer precisely hasn’t looked hard enough to be quoting.
Run the licence before anything else
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 unasked. On a tile roof that means video of the underlayment with the tile lifted, which is the only evidence that actually settles the relay-or-replace question.
Ask whether they’ll take the job at all
Manufactured homes, patio structures, low-slope additions — plenty of companies quietly decline these and never say why. We do them. Two of the three jobs below are exactly that kind of work.
Written, flat-rate, before anyone starts
Every figure on this page — $1,800, $8,000, $18,500 — 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 Modesto, and it has very little to do with which one came in cheapest.
Three real Modesto jobs
What we found, what we did, what it cost
Twenty years old and never looked at — $1,800
A roof around twenty years in, in poor shape, with the failure showing at the eave. Lift the tile at the edge and you can see it: debris and nesting material packed underneath, holding damp against the wood, and the underlayment past the point of doing its job.
Eighteen hundred dollars to clear it out, deal with the wood that had gone soft and put the detail back properly. The tile went back on. Nobody bought a new roof.
Manufactured home replacement — $8,000
Composition shingle at the end of its life — edges lifting, granules gone, the whole slope reading as tired rather than damaged in one spot. On a roof in that condition a repair buys a season and costs you the money twice.
Eight thousand for the replacement. Manufactured homes are work a lot of roofing companies won’t take, which is why owners often get bounced between contractors before finding somebody who will simply do the job.
Patio restoration and a new roof — $18,500
The photo at the top of this page is this job. A low-slope patio section restored in single-ply membrane, terminated into a new composition shingle roof on the main planes, with the attic ventilation sorted along the upper slope.
That junction — where a flat or low-slope patio meets a pitched roof — is one of the most common leak points on a house and one of the most commonly done badly. Two different systems have to be tied together so water crosses from one to the other without finding a way in. Shingles alone won’t do it at that pitch, and a membrane that just runs up under a course and stops won’t either.
Eighteen thousand five hundred for the whole thing, written and agreed before we started.
How we cover Modesto
A service area, and we’ll say so plainly
We don’t have a Modesto office. We’re not going to drop a pin in the middle of town and imply otherwise, because that’s the oldest trick in local search and you deserve better than it.
Modesto is a service area covered by our crews, on a 209 number that reaches us directly. Same crews, same pricing, same standard as every job on this site. If you’d rather work with somebody who has a storefront down the road, that’s a reasonable thing to want — we’d just ask you to run their licence and make them show you the failure before you sign.
Our physical offices and the markets we’re established in are listed on the service areas page, and there’s more about how we work on the about page.
Phone
Hours
Open 24 hours — calls answered and booked live, day or night.
Coverage
Modesto, Ceres, Riverbank, Oakdale and Salida.
No Modesto address, because we don’t have one. Licensed, insured and working under CSLB #1030917 either way.
Straight answers
Modesto roofing questions
Do you actually have an office in Modesto?
No, and we won’t pretend to. Modesto is a service area covered by our crews on a 209 number. Our physical offices are elsewhere in the Valley, and that’s on the service areas page rather than hidden.
My tile roof leaks. Does that mean a whole new roof?
Usually not. Around here the tile is normally fine and the felt underneath it is what’s finished. That’s a lift-and-relay — same tile off and back on with new underlayment between, roughly $14,000–20,000 against $25,000–40,000 for a full tear-off with new tile. Somebody has to lift tile to tell you which one you need.
Do you work on manufactured homes?
Yes. We replaced one in Modesto for $8,000. A lot of roofing companies won’t take that work and don’t explain why, which leaves owners calling round for weeks.
My patio cover leaks where it meets the house. Can that be fixed?
Yes, and it’s common. Low-slope patio sections need a membrane rather than shingles, and the two systems have to be properly tied together at the transition. Done badly it leaks from the first winter. We handle both sides of that junction rather than patching where they meet.
Is the inspection free?
For homeowners, yes — no charge, no obligation, and you keep the recorded footage whether or not you hire us. Inspections for a real estate transaction are $299.
Find out which layer is actually failing.
Free inspection anywhere in Modesto, recorded so you can see it yourself, and a written flat-rate price before anything starts.