Roofers for Paradise Valley: tile, foam and custom roofs

Roofs in Paradise Valley

The houses between Camelback Mountain and Mummy Mountain, along Lincoln Drive and Tatum, and up the slopes of Clearwater Hills are mostly custom builds from the 1960s through the 1990s, on acre lots, with roofs to match: 50 to 90 squares, multiple levels, long valleys and a lot of penetrations. Two roof types dominate.

Clay and concrete tile. Two-piece mission clay on the older Spanish-style homes, concrete S-tile on the 1980s–90s builds. The clay breaks more on foot traffic and during a lift, and some of the 1970s profiles are discontinued, so we source from salvage before we start. The underlayment under most of it is original felt, and on a roof this size a tile underlayment relay runs toward the top of the $8,000–$15,000 range or above it.

Foam on the flat and territorial homes. Paradise Valley has more foam roofs per street than anywhere else in the Valley — the Santa Fe and territorial homes with parapets and scuppers. Foam is a good roof here as long as the coating is renewed every 5–7 years. A lot of these houses changed hands in the last decade and the recoat schedule got lost. We see gray, pitted foam that has gone ten years without a coat, and the difference between a $4,000 recoat and a $25,000 re-foam is a couple of those years.

Shingle roofs are rare here; a few 1960s ranches near Invergordon still carry them.

Roofers Paradise Valley homeowners call in August

Because the wind comes off the mountains. A monsoon cell that stalls on Camelback dumps its rain and its outflow onto the houses on the north side, and the leaks show up in the same places every year: long valleys full of palo verde litter, the transition where a tile roof meets a flat foam section, and parapet walls where the stucco has cracked away from the cap. Roof repair Paradise Valley calls are scheduled as emergency work during the season, and storm claims are documented from the roof.

The Town's rules

Paradise Valley has its own building department and its own permit for re-roofing, and the Town's hillside and design review rules affect anything visible from the street or the mountain. Most lots are not in a HOA, but the ones that are — Clearwater Hills, Finisterre, the gated enclaves off Mockingbird — have color and material rules as tight as any in Scottsdale. We handle the permit and the submittal.

What we do here

• Tile underlayment relays on large multi-level roofs, with salvage-matched clay
• Foam roof recoating, blister repair and re-foaming where it has gone too far
• Monsoon leak repair at valleys, tile-to-foam transitions and parapets
• Skylight and clerestory flashing, which the architects here loved and the roofers hated
• Roof inspections for purchases, where the roof is routinely a five-figure negotiation item
• Full roof replacement, including standing-seam metal on contemporary rebuilds

The Paradise Valley to Fountain Hills stretch shares one thing: roofs from the same era with the same felt. The cost page has the ranges, and what a roof replacement costs explains why the number is bigger on a 70-square roof than the per-square price suggests.