Lakewood’s Tract Roofs, Done Right This Time.
Mars Roofers is the roofing contractor Lakewood homeowners call for the postwar ranch roofs the whole city was built with — replacement, tear-off, and honest repairs. Licensed CSLB #1138550.
Call 310.880.9718
Roofs We Work On In Lakewood
Lakewood is the classic postwar planned community, and its roofs tell that story: thousands of tract homes built in the 1950s, overwhelmingly covered in composition shingle, now well into the era of second and third roofs. Neighborhoods around Del Valle Park and Mayfair, and the streets near Lakewood Center, are textbook examples — modest ranch homes where the original roof is long gone and the current one is aging. Lakewood Center and the commercial strips along Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street add flat-roofed retail buildings with membrane systems. Our Lakewood work is mostly about where a tract home’s current shingle roof stands in its life cycle — and being straight about it.
The recurring work on Lakewood tract roofs: brittle shingles with heavy granular loss, nail pops, deteriorated valley metal, and flashing that has corroded at plumbing vents and chimneys. Many of these homes have had multiple shingle layers installed over the years, which complicates repairs and shortens remaining life — one more layer is never our recommendation. Ridge caps loosened by years of Santa Ana winds are common. On the flat commercial roofs, ponding water and seam failures around rooftop units are the usual problems. Everything gets photographed and written up with the specific work specified, so the decision — repair this, replace that — is yours to make with evidence in hand.
How A Lakewood Roof Job Runs
- Inspection — The whole system walked: shingles, flashing, valleys, ridges, drainage. Standard inspections are $300.
- Written proposal — One complete scope with combined pricing and deck terms stated. No layer-over quotes.
- Build — Tear-off to the deck, deck repaired where it’s soft, new architectural shingle system. Most Lakewood ranches run on a tight, communicated schedule.
- Walkthrough — Finished roof walked with you; photos and documentation handed over.
Roofing Services In Lakewood
- Shingle roofs — architectural shingle replacement for the 1950s ranch stock
- Roof replacement — complete systems that reset the clock properly
- Tear-off & re-roof — multi-layer roofs stripped so the deck gets repaired, not buried
- Roof repair — valley metal, vent and chimney flashing, ridge caps
- Flat & TPO roofs — retail and commercial membrane systems along the corridors
- Tile roofs — tile work on Lakewood’s later-built and custom homes
- Gutters — replacement gutters for low-pitch ranch rooflines
- Emergency leak repair — call 310.880.9718 when it drips
What Drives The Cost In Lakewood
Lakewood’s uniformity makes pricing unusually transparent: same-era ranch homes, similar roofs, comparable numbers. The variables that remain are layer count at tear-off — the biggest one — deck repairs under the old layers, roof size, and material choice. Our published sample estimates include architectural shingle work at about $749 per square all-in, and the roof cost estimator is genuinely predictive on tract homes. The roof cost guide covers the rest of the factors.
Lakewood sits inland enough to avoid the worst coastal salt air, but it still gets the marine layer’s damp mornings, which encourage algae and moss on shaded north-facing slopes. Santa Ana winds are the dominant local force, lifting shingle edges and testing ridge lines every fall across the city’s uniform rooftops. Summer heat bakes the south and west slopes of these low-pitch ranch roofs, accelerating wear, and winter rains arrive all at once and expose every weak valley. Low-pitch ranch roofs get our closest attention at valleys and drainage, because they have the least margin for error.
Lakewood Roofing Questions
My roof has three layers. Can you just fix the leak?
We can find and fix the leak — but on a three-layer roof, repairs are rent: the layers complicate every fix and shorten what’s left of the roof’s life. Our recommendation will be a tear-off with the deck repaired, priced in writing, and the inspection photos will show you why.
How long does a ranch re-roof take in Lakewood?
Single-story ranch homes are among the fastest full replacements we do — tear-off, deck work, and new system on a tight schedule measured in days. Your proposal states the schedule before we start.
Buying or selling in Lakewood?
Because the stock is so uniform in age, roof condition is often the deciding detail between comparable homes. For a certified report, our sister company Get Your Roof Certified handles NRCIA certification inspections in Lakewood. For the work, call Mars Roofers.
Call 310.880.9718 — Mars Roofers, licensed CSLB #1138550.