Fresno Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement, Repair & Coatings
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Fresno, Clovis, Madera and the central San Joaquin Valley.
- Licensed California C-39 roofing contractor, fully insured
- Every coating, cement and adhesive legal to apply in this air basin
- Free roof inspection with dated photographs of every slope
- Written workmanship warranty on every replacement
Our Roofing Services in Fresno, CA
Roof Replacement
A replacement in Fresno is two scopes, not one. There is the covering that goes on, and there is what the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has to say about how the old roof leaves the building.
Roof Leak Repair
Most roof repair in this country is done with a trowel and a bucket of solvent-heavy roof cement. In the San Joaquin Valley the products that behave that way have largely been regulated off the shelf, so a repair here has to be built rather than smeared.
Storm Damage Restoration
Valley storms are not the storms the roofing industry advertises. Fresno's damage season is a narrow winter window in which an atmospheric river parks against the Sierra foothills and delivers a large share of the year's rain across a handful of days, then leaves for another eight months.
Hail Damage Roofing
Here is a page written to argue against a sale. Fresno sits on a valley floor where damaging hail is genuinely rare, and almost everything a homeowner here gets told is hail damage turns out to be nothing of the kind.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind in Fresno is a spring and autumn story rather than a storm story. North gradient winds run down the length of the valley for a day or two at a time, and they find the same three places on almost every roof they manage to get underneath.
Roof Inspections
An inspection here should produce a document, not an opinion. Three facts decide almost everything that follows on a Fresno roof, and not one of them can be read from the kerb, from a drone photograph or from a satellite measurement service.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt shingle covers most of Fresno, and the honest headline is that the printed warranty length and the actual service life here are two different numbers. A thirty-year product on a hot valley roof with a west exposure is doing well to reach twenty.
Metal Roofing
Metal makes sense on far more Fresno buildings than actually receive it, and it makes no sense at all on some of the houses it gets sold to. Two factors decide: how long you intend to own the building, and how many planes and penetrations the roof already carries.
Tile Roofing
On a concrete tile roof the tile is a shade structure. The waterproofing is the underlayment beneath it, and across Fresno the tile routinely outlives that underlayment by two or three decades, which is why so many tile roofs here fail without a single broken piece.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
We do not run hot asphalt kettles, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation. In a basin classified extreme nonattainment for ozone, with tenants who complain and a District that takes nuisance seriously, a burner on a parking lot is a problem looking to happen.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Two refusals up front, because they save everybody time. We will not coat a failed shingle roof, and we will not sell you a solvent-based aluminium roof coating.
Roof Ventilation
We argue against powered attic fans on Fresno houses, and the reason is entirely local. This basin does not attain the federal fine particulate standard, and the District runs a residential wood-burning curtailment programme each winter with Fresno County treated as a hot-spot area.
Skylights
We talk more homeowners out of skylights than into them, and the argument turns on which slope you propose to put one on. In a city with more than a hundred days above ninety degrees, a west-facing skylight is a heat collector you will spend a decade cooling.
Gutters & Downspouts
Fresno's rain arithmetic makes gutters a different product here than they are almost anywhere else in the country. The normal annual total recorded by the Hanford weather office is 11.50 inches, and January alone accounts for 2.19 of that while July averages one hundredth of an inch.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia in Fresno very rarely rots from rain. It fails from ultraviolet exposure, from a decade of sprinkler overspray hitting the same three feet of a west elevation every single morning, and from paint that stopped behaving like a continuous film several summers before anybody noticed.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is the wettest object on most Fresno roofs, and the standard repair for one is the wrong repair. Somebody climbs up, spreads sealant across the old flashing, and sells the homeowner two dry winters.
Emergency Tarping
A temporary cover that is going to matter in Fresno has to survive months rather than days. The permanent repair frequently waits for a dry window, and in January that window can be three weeks out, so a plastic sheet held down with sandbags is not a solution here.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work is where the District's rules stop being background and start being your schedule. On a regulated facility a roof tear-off is a renovation under Rule 4002, and the survey and the notification both have to clear before the first square of old material comes off the deck.
Insurance Claim Help
We help with claims, and we are selective about which ones. Fresno produces a particular kind of covered loss, mostly wind and winter water intrusion, and a particular kind of uncovered one, mostly wear that finally announced itself.
Fresno Premium Roofing handles roof replacement, roof leak repair, tile underlayment, low-slope membrane and roof coatings across Fresno and the central San Joaquin Valley. We work in architectural asphalt shingle, concrete and clay tile, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, self-adhered modified bitumen and reinforced single-ply, on houses and on commercial buildings.
Two rulebooks decide a Fresno roof before any brochure does. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District sets what may legally be applied here, which governs every coating, cement, mastic, adhesive and sealant on the job. District Rule 4002 governs how an old roof comes off a regulated building, which means a survey and a District notification have to clear before a commercial or larger multifamily tear-off can begin. A house is a different matter entirely.
Neither rulebook shows up on a shingle sample board, and both are where a low bid quietly turns into a change order. We price them as visible line items, we tell single-family owners plainly when the survey rule does not apply to them, and we put a remaining-life figure in years in writing so you can decide whether this roof needs replacing at all.
What Fresno Customers Say
Two other bids had a line for an asbestos survey on our 1994 house. These guys explained the rule, showed us why it did not apply to a single-family home, and took it straight off the number. The tile relay and new underlayment came in on the day they said.
I own a small warehouse and I had no idea a re-roof needed a notification filed first. They scheduled the survey, filed it, and built the waiting period into the programme instead of surprising me with it in week two. The cold-applied system went on with no kettle and no complaints from the unit next door.
A door-knocker told me I had hail damage. Fresno Premium came out, marked test squares, photographed the vents and gutter apron, and wrote me a page explaining that clean soft metal means it was not hail. They charged nothing and probably saved me a denied claim.
Called in December about coating the flat section over the back of the house. They told me to wait until April and explained why the waterborne product would not cure through the fog season. Did a proper repair in the meantime, then came back in spring and coated it to the thickness they wrote down.
Why Fresno Chooses Fresno Premium Roofing
- ✓We establish the build year and the building class before pricing a tear-off, because Rule 4002 decides whether the job starts with a survey or with a shovel.
- ✓We tell single-family owners when the survey rule does not apply to them, rather than selling one they do not owe.
- ✓Every coating, cement, mastic, adhesive and sealant we specify is legal to apply in the San Joaquin Valley. A number of products sold online are not.
- ✓We run no hot asphalt kettles. Cold-applied and self-adhered systems do the same work without a burner sitting on your property.
- ✓Compliance is priced as its own line, so you can see exactly what a cheaper bid left out of its number.
- ✓We decline hail claims we cannot support with soft-metal evidence, and on the Fresno valley floor that answer comes up often.
About Fresno Premium Roofing in Fresno, CA
Fresno Premium Roofing works the central San Joaquin Valley, from Madera down to Kingsburg and out west to Firebaugh and Coalinga. We replace and repair asphalt shingle, concrete and clay tile, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, and low-slope membrane on houses, apartment blocks, packing houses and commercial buildings.
What makes this market different is that two sets of rules decide the job before the materials do. What may legally be applied to a roof in this air basin is set by the District's coatings and adhesives rules. How an old roof comes off a regulated building is set by Rule 4002. We know both, we price both openly, and we do not pretend a rule applies when it does not.
Do not hire us if you want a hail claim written on a roof that has no hail damage, a coating applied over a shingle roof that has already failed, or a December coating job we have told you should wait until April. We will give you the reasoning and the photographs, and we would rather lose the work than hand you something that fails in year two.
How It Works
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Inspection With Something Opened
We walk every slope we can stand on safely and use a pole camera for the rest, then open a test area at a rake or a valley. Layer count, fastener type, deck thickness and sheathing condition get measured rather than estimated, and every penetration is photographed on its own.
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The Compliance Read
We establish the build year and the building class, because those two facts decide whether the eventual tear-off is an ordinary job or a regulated renovation. If your property is a house, we say so and the survey question closes there. If it is commercial or more than four units, we plan the sequence around it.
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A Written Scope With the Rules Priced
The proposal names the covering, the underlayment, the flashing package, the ventilation arithmetic in square inches, a per-sheet deck price, and where it genuinely applies, survey, notification and disposal. Products are named with their compliance status, so you can compare our bid against another one line by line.
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Install, Then Close Out in Writing
Crews protect landscaping and set debris control before anything comes off. You get progress photographs, a magnet sweep at the end of each day, the final photograph set of every detail before it was covered, and a written workmanship warranty with the scope attached to it.
Commercial Roofing in Fresno and Across the Central San Joaquin Valley
We roof and maintain packing houses, cold storage, distribution buildings, medical suites, retail centres, schools and apartment properties across Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Hanford and the surrounding county roads. On any of those a tear-off is a renovation under District Rule 4002, so the survey and the notification are scheduled and priced before the crew is booked rather than discovered afterwards. We run no hot asphalt kettles, which keeps burners, fumes and odour complaints away from your tenants and your neighbours.
- ✓60 and 80 mil reinforced TPO, EPDM and two-ply self-adhered modified bitumen
- ✓Cold-applied and self-adhered assemblies only, with no kettle on your site
- ✓Rule 4002 asbestos survey, District notification and disposal priced as visible lines
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate design shot with a level before any membrane is chosen
- ✓Core cuts to confirm layer count and insulation moisture before a recover is proposed
- ✓Roof asset reports with remaining service life in years for capital planning
- ✓Phased scheduling for occupied packing houses, schools and medical buildings
- ✓Drain, scupper and overflow clearing scheduled ahead of the winter storm season
Service Areas
Fresno Premium Roofing serves Fresno, CA and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across the central San Joaquin Valley
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an asbestos survey before a roof tear-off in Fresno?
Almost certainly not, if you own a single-family house. District Rule 4002 applies to regulated facilities, which means commercial buildings and residential structures of more than four living units, and a survey and District notification are required there before a tear-off that disturbs more than 160 square feet of suspect material. One house is excluded. If a contractor has put a survey line on a tract-home bid, ask which rule it cites.
Does Fresno actually get hail damage?
Rarely on the valley floor. Most of what gets diagnosed as hail damage on a Fresno roof turns out to be heat blistering, foot traffic, granule loss from years of ultraviolet exposure, or manufacturing scars. Real impact marks the soft metal as well as the shingles, so if the vents, valley metal and gutter aprons are clean, it was not hail. We will inspect and give you the answer in writing either way, at no charge.
When is the best time of year to re-roof in Fresno?
Late spring through October, for two reasons. The Hanford weather office puts Fresno's annual precipitation normal at 11.50 inches with almost all of it between November and March, so a dry-season tear-off carries far less risk of an open deck meeting weather. Summer heat also seals a new asphalt shingle within days, whereas a December installation may sit unsealed until March.
Why will you not sell me a solvent-based aluminium roof coating?
Because it is largely no longer legal to apply here. California cut the limit on bituminous roof coatings from 300 grams of volatile organic compound per litre to 50, and District Rule 4601 sets the content limits for every architectural coating applied in the San Joaquin Valley. The compliant waterborne replacements work well, but they need a real cure window, which is why we will not coat a roof here between November and February.
What licence should a roofing contractor in Fresno hold?
A California C-39 Roofing classification issued by the Contractors State License Board. That classification covers installing and repairing the surfaces that waterproof and weatherproof a structure, in asphalt, felt, urethane foam, metal roofing systems, shakes, shingles, tile, slate and membrane. Ask for the licence number, then check it yourself on the CSLB website before you sign anything with anyone.
Should I put a powered attic fan on my Fresno house?
Usually not. A powered ventilator depressurises the attic, and if the ceiling below it leaks, some make-up air is pulled from outside and some from your house. In a basin that does not attain the federal fine particulate standard, with a District wood-burning curtailment programme every winter, that is the wrong direction to move air. Balanced passive intake and exhaust, plus air-sealing the ceiling plane, does more and costs less.