Coastal Roofing That Stands Up to Salt Air.
Mars Roofers is the roofing contractor Huntington Beach homeowners call when the ocean has been eating their roof’s metal for twenty years — replacement, repair, and tear-off by licensed in-house crews. CSLB #1138550.
Call 310.880.9718
Roofs We Work On In Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach wears its age in layers, and the roofs tell the story. Downtown and the Main Street area still hold original beach cottages with aging composition shingle — and a few remaining wood shake roofs. Huntington Harbour’s waterfront homes mix tile, shingle, and low-slope sections over boat docks and additions. Seacliff and the newer southeast tracts run predominantly concrete tile, and Sunset Beach keeps its classic cottage character with older shingle roofs near the sand.
Across all of it, the ocean is the constant. Salt air reaches every roof in the city and decides how long the metal components last. Salt corrosion is our number-one finding here: rusted flashing, deteriorated vents and pipe jacks, and corroded fasteners on roofs whose shingles or tiles still have years of life in them. Wind is the second story — coastal gusts lift brittle shingle tabs and work ridge caps loose on nearly every aging shingle roof we walk. The older cottages add shake deterioration and multiple layers of old roofing, the tile tracts show slipped or cracked tiles over aging underlayment, and the low-slope sections over harbour-home additions are frequent ponding and leak points. We replace what’s failed with corrosion-resistant metals and materials chosen for a coastal zip code, not an inland one.
Roofing Services In Huntington Beach
- Roof replacement — full tear-off and a new system built for direct ocean exposure
- Roof repair — flashing, vent, and pipe-jack replacement; slipped tile; wind damage
- Tear-off & re-roof — layered cottage roofs stripped to the deck and rebuilt
- Tile roofs — concrete tile systems for Seacliff and the southeast tracts
- Shingle roofs — architectural shingle for the cottage neighborhoods and Sunset Beach
- Flat & TPO roofs — low-slope sections over harbour additions and docks
- Gutters — corrosion-resistant gutter systems that drain where they should
- Emergency leak repair — storm leaks get called in, not emailed
What The Coast Does To A Roof
Huntington Beach takes direct ocean exposure, so the salt load on roofing metal is among the highest in the county — unprotected flashing and fasteners simply do not last as long here. The marine layer keeps roofs damp into late morning most of the year, feeding corrosion and moss growth on shaded slopes. Afternoon onshore winds are a daily stress test for ridge tiles, shingle tabs, and anything loosely attached. Winter storms bring wind-driven rain straight off the Pacific, and that is when every weak flashing on an ocean-facing slope shows itself. A Huntington Beach re-roof that ignores any of this is a roof built to fail early — ours are specified against all four.
What Drives The Cost In Huntington Beach
The baseline drivers are the same everywhere: squares, pitch, material, layers coming off, deck condition. The coast adds line items that matter — corrosion-resistant flashing metals and fasteners, shake tear-off and re-decking on the oldest cottages, and drainage work on low-slope harbour additions. Our roof cost guide breaks down how each factor moves a price, the roof cost estimator gives you a planning range, and our written proposal gives you the real number with scope and deck terms spelled out before work starts.
Huntington Beach Roofing Questions
My shingles look fine, but two vents are rusted through. What’s the fix?
That’s the classic Huntington Beach pattern — the field of the roof outlives its metal. We replace the failed vents, pipe jacks, and flashing with corrosion-resistant components and inspect every other piece of metal on the roof while we’re up there, because they’re all the same age.
Should a wood shake roof near the beach be replaced with shake again?
Usually not. Most owners we re-roof choose architectural shingle or tile systems that keep the cottage character without shake’s maintenance and deterioration cycle in salt air. We’ll walk you through the honest trade-offs for your house.
Buying or selling in Huntington Beach?
For a certified roof report for escrow or an insurer, our sister company Get Your Roof Certified handles NRCIA certification inspections in Huntington Beach. For the work itself — repair, metal replacement, or a full re-roof — call us.
Call 310.880.9718 — Mars Roofers, licensed CSLB #1138550, twenty minutes from the pier.