FEATURED PROJECT
A full tear-off reroof of a single-story home and attached garage, 16 squares in all. We stripped to the bare deck, replaced 100 feet of plank decking, then installed Owens Corning Duration COOL shingles in Mojave.
About This Project
The old roof on this La Habra home had reached the end of its run. The shingles were faded and losing granules, a few had curled and lifted, and the flashing around the vents had been patched with tar more than once. When water gets past tired flashing like that, the deck underneath pays for it. So this was not a cover-up job. We took the whole thing down to the wood and started clean.
You can see the starting point in the before shot: an aged roof with worn brown shingles and old, mastic-heavy vent details. Once we stripped it, the roof looked like the tear-off photo, bare plank decking, every old nail pulled, the deck open for inspection. That step matters, because you cannot judge a deck until the roof is off it.
On this home we replaced 100 linear feet of roof decking. Older houses like this one were built with spaced wood planks, and any board that is soft, split, or cracked has to come out before new roofing goes down. Shingles are only as sound as the wood under them.
People think a reroof is just new shingles. It isn't. We replaced 100 feet of decking here before a single shingle went on, because if the wood under the roof is bad, the best shingle in the world still fails early. That's the part nobody sees, and it's the part that lasts.
With a sound deck, we laid synthetic underlayment across the whole roof, set a new starter strip along the edges, and ran new brown edge metal so the perimeter is sealed and clean. Then came the shingles: Owens Corning TruDefinition Duration COOL in Mojave, a warm brown that suits the stucco exterior. These are cool-roof rated, meaning the granules reflect more of the sun's heat instead of letting the roof soak it in, which matters on a Southern California roof that bakes all summer.
Materials used
Ventilation and details are where a roof is won or lost. We set new box and ridge venting so the attic can breathe, then finished the peak with high-profile DecoRidge ridge cap, the clean line you see running across the top. Every pipe boot and roof jack was painted brown to match the field, so nothing stands out as an afterthought. Those brown-matched vents are a small thing that tells you the crew cared.
The Mojave shingle here carries a 50-year rating and a Cool Roof Rating Council listing, so it counts toward Title 24 cool-roof requirements. It is a roof built to sit on this house for decades, not years.
When it was done, the homeowner rated the job a ten out of ten. That is the goal on every roof we tear off and rebuild, whether it is here in La Habra or nearby in Brea, Fullerton, or Whittier. If your roof is losing granules, curling at the edges, or leaking around the vents, that is the roof telling you it is time. We will come look, tell you honestly what it needs, and put it in writing before any work starts.
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