Roofing Service Areas

If your home is in one of the 14 areas on the cards above, from Summerlin and Centennial Hills over to Lake Las Vegas and Boulder City, or out northeast in Mesquite and the Moapa Valley, we work there. In each of our roofing service areas, that means roof repair, leak detection, tile relays and re-roofs. To get started, call (725) 502-3114 or text photos of the problem to that number; we check the ceiling inside and the roof outside, and you get a free estimate in writing before any work begins.

What changes from one area to the next is the roof itself, because houses here age in different ways. A Green Valley house from the 1990s is often still on felt that has outlived its years. A hillside home in Anthem catches stronger wind than the valley floor. A villa at Lake Las Vegas has parapets, one of the places those roofs tend to leak. And a Logandale ranch may have a metal-roofed shop out back that needs a roofer as much as the house does.

How the roofs change across Southern Nevada

Each card above opens your town's own page. Below is the short version, area by area, of what we find on the roofs there.

Las Vegas proper: seven decades of houses

A house in Las Vegas itself could come from any of seven decades, and when it was built tells us a good deal about the roof on it. Across a lot of the central and eastern valley, the 1980s and 1990s tract homes are at the age where the original felt gives out under tile that still looks fine from the street. In the newer master-planned areas the roofs are younger, though the builder-grade pipe boots and flashing on them crack early under this sun. Then there are the older central and downtown homes, which often have flat or low-slope roofs; those get a reflective single-ply membrane, TPO or PVC, rather than tile or shingle. Roofs in the city also ride out daily temperature swings of 40 degrees or more, on top of the UV and the monsoon.

Summerlin and Southern Highlands: the west side and the south rim

Summerlin backs up against the Spring Mountains and Red Rock, and the wind that pours off that range hits harder than it does on the valley floor. On Summerlin tile, that wind is behind the repairs we make most often there: tile lifted at the edges or walked out of its courses, and flashing pried loose, especially after monsoon storms and spring wind events. Southern Highlands, the upscale gated, master-planned community in the southwest valley, sits on higher ground at the valley's southern rim, where the elevation gives the wind more force.

Both communities wear concrete and clay tile, with flat and low-slope membrane on the contemporary custom homes. In The Ridges, one house can carry premium clay tile, standing-seam metal and flat membrane all at once, three separate systems on one roof, and each one takes a roofer who knows it. And in Southern Highlands, where homes are held to a high standard, a replacement tile that doesn't match its neighbors stands out, so matching the profile and color matters as much as stopping the water.

Centennial Hills and North Las Vegas: the northwest and the north end

Centennial Hills did much of its building between the late 1990s and the 2000s. Because so many of its tile roofs went on in the same stretch of years, a big share of them reached the 20-to-30-year mark together. On a roof of that age there, the tile is usually still good and the felt under it is due, so the fix tends to be a targeted repair or a tile relay, not new tile.

Over in North Las Vegas and the fast-growing northern valley, Aliante, Skye Canyon and Providence are newer tract communities with a mix of tile and shingle. The first round of leaks there tends to arrive as builder warranties expire, because builder-grade pipe boots, flashing and sealant often give out first in this climate, in some cases inside ten years. Up at that open edge of the valley, gusts catch tile and shingle edges and lift them, and wind-driven dust and grit settle into the drainage.

Green Valley: older tile and older felt

Henderson's houses are overwhelmingly tile-roofed, and HOA communities with roof rules of their own cover most of the city. Green Valley was among Henderson's original master plans, built mostly in the 1980s and 1990s, so its tile roofs are the oldest stock in the area. Most of those roofs are now well past the life of their original underlayment, and right now the lift-and-relay is the single most common roofing project in the neighborhood. The mature landscaping is part of the story, too: with decades of growth comes more debris, and it gathers in roof valleys and around pipes and vents, spots that matter on a desert roof, since valleys gather monsoon water and pipes and vents are where plenty of leaks begin.

Anthem, MacDonald Highlands and Lake Las Vegas: Henderson's hills and the lake

Anthem and Sun City Anthem climb the slopes of Black Mountain, and up there the wind is stronger and steadier than on the valley floor; in Anthem it's the number-one roof problem we see. MacDonald Highlands and the Black Mountain area catch it too. After a monsoon storm, calls about tile the wind has knocked loose come in from all three, and in Anthem a stretch of spring wind brings them as well. A lot of Anthem homes answer to an HOA, or to an age-restricted community like Sun City Anthem, so a repair there has to leave the approved look alone.

Lake Las Vegas, the Mediterranean-inspired luxury community in eastern Henderson, is a different job again. Its roofs carry clay and premium concrete tile in custom profiles, some of it discontinued, along with flat and low-slope sections on the contemporary villas, and a lot of homes there mix the steep tile and the flat sections, with parapets around them and complex transitions in between. On those homes, leaks most often start at the parapets, the flashing and the flat sections.

Boulder City: some of the oldest homes we roof

Some of Southern Nevada's oldest housing is in Boulder City, Hoover Dam era historic homes included, and much of the town was built before the valley's modern tract booms. After decades of high-desert sun, a lot of those roofs and the felt beneath them are past their service life. We check the older flashing at walls, chimneys and skylights too, because once a flashing seal fails, water comes in right at that joint. Some valley companies skip Boulder City. We work there regularly, in Old Town, the Historic District and the neighborhoods beyond them, Hemenway Valley and Boulder Hills included.

Mesquite and the Virgin Valley: more heat, faster wear

Mesquite is about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas on I-15, right at the Arizona line, and its summers run hotter than the Las Vegas valley's; it regularly posts some of the highest temperatures in the state. Tile covers the great bulk of the roofs in its retirement and golf communities, from Sun City Mesquite to Highland Hills and the Mesquite Vistas area, and under that much heat the felt beneath the tile wears out ahead of the roughly 20 years it gets closer to Las Vegas. After months of baking heat, the Virgin Valley's summer monsoon brings short, intense downpours, and anything the sun has weakened tends to give way all at once. That's why it pays to have the roof inspected ahead of the monsoon. With no office or street address in Mesquite, our crews drive out from the Las Vegas valley on planned Virgin Valley trips, and Bunkerville and Scenic next door are in our area as well.

Overton, Logandale and Glendale: the Moapa Valley

Out in the Moapa Valley, a single property can carry more than one roof. Overton's agricultural communities along the Muddy River sit about an hour northeast of Las Vegas, with established farmhouses and ranch-style houses alongside newer construction, and many lots have barns, shops and other outbuildings. Logandale sits just north of Overton on the Muddy River, where larger lots, ranch homes and farm properties often have shops, outbuildings and metal roofs next to the main house, and the open-country wind there adds to what the sun does. Farther up, Glendale is a small place near the I-15 corridor at the valley's north end, its homes, ranches and roadside properties spread out and open to the wind. On the main house alone, the roof might be tile, shingle, metal or a flat membrane.

Rural towns like these are often too far for many valley companies. So we plan our Moapa Valley trips ahead and serve Overton, Logandale and Glendale on the same runs.

What stays the same wherever the house is

The roofs differ by area. How we look at them, the choices we give you and the warranty behind the repair don't.

Tracing a leak

A leak visit runs the same way in Henderson as in Glendale. We begin in the room with the stain, line it up with the stretch of roof above it, and note any pipe, vent or wall joint in between. Up top, we check the weak points along that route: pipe boots, flashing at walls, chimneys and skylights, valleys, the tile and the felt under it, ridge mortar and bird stops, holes left from old antenna or AC work that nobody sealed, and low-slope spots where monsoon water sits. When the way in still isn't certain, a controlled water test confirms it, and the repair waits for that. Before any work starts, we show you where the water gets in and what gave way there. Most leaks are found without a tear-off, and plenty are found and fixed on that one visit.

Deciding how much of the roof needs work

The decision is made the same way, too, and we start from the smallest fix that will really stop the water. On a tile roof the tile can last 50 to 100 years while the asphalt felt under it typically lasts about 20, so the usual big job isn't new tile but a lift-and-relay. A relay swaps out what's under your tile and keeps the tile itself. The new layer is a high-temperature synthetic or rubberized underlayment, the worn flashing and pipe boots get renewed at the same time, and then your tile goes back up. That underlayment often lasts 25 to 35 years or more, reusing the tile keeps the cost well below a roof of all-new tile, and where the felt gave out in one area alone, we relay that area and leave the rest. A re-roof is the answer only for a roof that's done as a whole, and if yours is, you'll hear why from us.

What we put on a roof

Tile. Concrete is the usual tile around Las Vegas and comes in plenty of profiles. Going with clay means a higher price in exchange for longer-lasting color and a traditional look. We match existing profiles wherever possible, and a discontinued tile can often be handled with salvaged tile or tile moved from a hidden part of the same roof.

Asphalt shingle. Heat-rated architectural shingles typically give 20 to 30 years here, and cool-rated reflective versions are available. Cheap three-tab shingles bake and curl in this sun, which is why we install architectural ones, and we tear off the old roof rather than layering over it.

Metal. Standing-seam panels or metal-tile profiles. Metal resists fire, and a quality metal roof can last 40 to 70 years; a reflective, cool-rated finish keeps the attic cooler.

Flat and low-slope. Reflective TPO or PVC single-ply membrane, built to resist ponding and good for 20 to 30+ years with basic maintenance.

The warranty and the roofline

Each leak repair carries our 5-year leak-repair warranty, in Mesquite, Boulder City and Logandale the same as in Las Vegas: should a leak we repaired return inside those five years, we come back and make it right at no charge. A re-roof comes with a pair of warranties, the manufacturer's for the materials in the system and ours for the work itself, and the exact terms of each come on paper with the estimate.

The roof edge is part of the job, too. City Seamless is family-owned, with Southern Nevada trade roots dating to 1976, and it began in seamless rain gutters before the roofing division; the gutter side of the same company is at cityseamless.com. Because gutters mount to the fascia, we can repair fascia and soffit and fit or replace gutters in the same project as the roof, with one crew answering for the whole roofline.

What a roof costs, and whether your town changes it

Our cost post puts rough Las Vegas ballparks on shingle, tile and metal. Shingle first: an asphalt re-roof often comes to about $3.50 to $5.50 per square foot installed. On a shingle roof, many whole-home projects end up somewhere from $15,000 to $25,000. A tile re-roof or lift-and-relay is roughly $8 to $20 per square foot, with the tile, the underlayment and the roof's complexity deciding where in that range. Metal is roughly $7 to $10+ per square foot, and more for premium standing-seam systems.

Those are market ranges, not quotes, and they come as one set of figures for Las Vegas rather than a price for each town. What moves a number is the roof and what goes on it: its size and pitch, the number of penetrations and valleys, access and stories, tear-off and the condition of the decking, and the material you choose. The desert heat adds its own share as well: heat-rated materials and specialized installation can put 10 to 20 percent on top of what the same roof would cost in a milder climate. Wherever your house is, the number to go by is the one on your free written estimate, made after we've seen that roof. Each of these is explained in our post on what a new roof costs in Las Vegas.

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