Fontana Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Cool Roofing
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspection, a written scope, and a roof specified for Inland Empire heat.
- ✓Licensed and insured California C-39 roofing contractor
- ✓Free inspection and a written scope with quantities
- ✓Title 24 cool-roof compliance handled with the permit
- ✓Se Habla Español
Fontana Roof Pros handles roof replacement, roof leak repair, tile and concrete tile roofing, cool-rated asphalt shingle roofs, standing seam metal, low-slope membrane, gutters, ventilation and commercial roofing across Fontana and the western Inland Empire. Licensed, insured and specific about materials: CRRC-listed cool shingles, high-temperature SBS underlayment, batten-set tile, welded TPO and 0.032-gauge aluminum gutter.
What makes a roof fail here is heat, not rain. Surface temperatures on dark roofing run far above air temperature through a long inland summer, and the daily cycle between afternoon and dawn works every joint, sealant strip and fastener on the assembly. So we quote reflectance, an air space over the deck where the material allows one, and balanced attic ventilation as part of the roof rather than as extras.
Every job starts with a free inspection and a written scope you can compare line by line: squares by plane, the exact product with its reflectance listing, vent net free area, and which metal is new instead of reused. We will also tell you when a repair beats a replacement, or when nothing needs doing yet. Call (844) 511-2320 for an inspection in Fontana.
Why Fontana Chooses Fontana Roof Pros
- ✓Every estimate names the product and its Cool Roof Rating Council listing, so the reflectance claim is documented rather than asserted
- ✓Inspections include the attic: deck condition, a temperature reading, and net free vent area measured against attic floor area
- ✓Roofs are graded and quoted plane by plane, because the west face here fails years ahead of the north
- ✓We decline shingle coating jobs and hail claims on heat-blistered roofs, and we explain the reasoning in writing
- ✓Tile work includes lifting a section to report on the underlayment before anything is quoted
- ✓Se habla español — inspections, written scopes and remaining-life reports in Spanish or English
About Fontana Roof Pros in Fontana, CA
Fontana Roof Pros is a licensed and insured roofing contractor working Fontana, Rialto, Bloomington, Colton, San Bernardino and the rest of the western Inland Empire. Residential and small commercial, replacement and repair, with a bias toward telling owners what their roof actually needs instead of what is easiest to sell.
We built the way we work around one local fact. Heat is what consumes roofs in this valley, so reflectance, an air space over the deck where the material allows one, and balanced attic ventilation are part of every scope rather than upgrades presented at signing. That is also why our inspections go into the attic and why our estimates carry a reflectance listing and a vent area figure alongside the price.
Do not hire us if you want the cheapest number on the street, a shingle roof sprayed white instead of replaced, or a hail claim filed on a roof with heat blistering. We decline all three and say why. We are also the wrong call if your roof has two good years left and you want someone to agree that it does not.
Our Roofing Services in Fontana, CA
Roof Replacement
A tear-off is the only moment you get to change how a roof behaves at four in the afternoon in August. Everything after that is maintenance.
Roof Leak Repair
Most leaks in this city are not caused by rain. They are caused by six months of heat opening a joint, and then found by the first honest storm in December.
Storm Damage Roof Repair
Storms here rarely create damage on their own. They find damage the summer already did.
Hail Damage Roof Inspection & Repair
This page exists to talk you out of something. Fontana is not a hail market, and most of what gets called hail damage on an inland roof is heat blistering and ordinary granule loss.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Uplift resistance on a shingle roof is mostly adhesive, not steel. The nails hold the head of the shingle; the sealant strip holds the exposed tab flat.
Roof Inspections
An inspection built for a wet climate looks for water. Ours looks for heat, because that is what is actually consuming roofs in this valley, and heat leaves a different set of fingerprints.
Asphalt Shingle Roofing
Color is a durability decision in Fontana, not a taste decision. The same architectural shingle in charcoal and in a light cool-pigment blend will not reach the same age on the same house, and the gap is measured in years, not months.
Metal Roofing
Bare metal is not a cool roof. That sentence undoes most of what gets said about metal in a hot climate, and it is the reason this page reads differently from a metal roofing page written anywhere else.
Tile Roofing
Tile is the material our climate argues for, and the reason is a one-inch air gap rather than the tile itself. The energy code treats that gap as the equivalent of a cool roof, and the physics behind the exemption is sound.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Almost every Fontana house with a flat roof has a small one: a patio cover, a garage, a 1970s room addition, a porch deck tucked behind a pitched main roof. Those little planes are where a disproportionate share of leaks live, and heat is why.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We turn down coating work most weeks, and it is worth explaining why before explaining when coatings are excellent. If somebody has offered to spray your asphalt shingle roof white to keep the house cool, decline.
Attic & Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is a secondary service in most roofing markets. In Fontana it decides how long the roof lasts, because a shingle bakes from underneath as well as from above, and the attic is the part of the assembly nobody ever looks at.
Skylights
A skylight in Fontana is a hole in the roof that admits heat as well as light. That is not an argument against skylights.
Gutters & Downspouts
Fontana averages under fifteen inches of rain a year, and that fact leads most owners to the wrong conclusion about gutters. The job here is not moving volume across a season.
Fascia & Soffit Repair
Fascia and soffit work looks like carpentry and functions as ventilation. The soffit is the intake half of the attic system, so a blocked or missing soffit vent is not a cosmetic problem.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney and the roof around it are two materials moving at different rates every single day. Masonry and framed lumber expand and contract by different amounts, and in a climate with a thirty-degree swing between afternoon and dawn, that joint gets worked hundreds of times a year.
Emergency Roof Tarping
An emergency cover in this climate has an enemy most people do not think about. It is not the rain it is holding back.
Commercial Roofing
Our commercial work is small buildings: strip retail along Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Avenue, churches, medical and dental suites, auto shops, older two-storey mixed-use. Three thousand to twenty thousand square feet, and a roof that has to be worked on without closing anyone's business.
Insurance Claim Support
The most useful thing a roofer can do for you on an insurance claim in this city is tell you not to file one. In an inland climate, the large majority of roof deterioration is sun, age and ventilation, and every policy in California excludes wear and tear.
Commercial and multi-tenant roofing in Fontana
We work small commercial buildings across Fontana and the western Inland Empire: strip retail on Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Avenue, churches, medical and dental suites, auto shops and older mixed-use. Three thousand to twenty thousand square feet, where the rooftop equipment leaks more often than the field does and the building cannot close for the work. Scopes are phased by section, written with quantities and dates, and priced with reflectance treated as an operating-cost decision rather than a sales point.
- ✓Reflective single-ply and coating systems that cut the heat load reaching packaged HVAC units
- ✓Rooftop equipment curbs re-flashed with welded target patches, not sealant
- ✓Condensate piped to drains instead of discharging onto the membrane
- ✓Walkway pads along service routes, which matter on a membrane at summer surface temperature
- ✓Phased scheduling so tenants and entrances stay open through the work
- ✓Early starts so material goes down before the deck is too hot to handle safely
- ✓Annual documented maintenance with photographs and a remaining-life note for budgeting
- ✓Title 24 nonresidential documentation handled with the permit
Recent Projects Across the western Inland Empire
How It Works
- Free inspection, plane by plane. We walk the roof early in the day, grade granule cover and sealant bond on each plane separately, then go into the attic for deck condition, a temperature reading and the actual ventilation arithmetic. You get photographs of what we found, not a verdict shouted from a ladder.
- A written scope with numbers in it. The estimate lists squares by plane, the product with its Cool Roof Rating Council listing, underlayment type, vent net free area in square inches, and every piece of metal that is new rather than reused. Repair options and replacement options appear side by side so you can see the difference.
- Permit, then install in the right order. We pull the City of Fontana permit and handle the Title 24 cool-roof documentation with it. Tear-off, deck repair and re-nailing, ridge slot and soffit intake, underlayment, flashing and metal, then the field. Starting early in the day matters on a hot deck, so we do.
- Walkthrough, cleanup, and what to expect next. We magnet-sweep the property, walk the finished roof with you, hand over the product documentation and the workmanship warranty in writing, and tell you what to look at in three years. If a problem shows up, you call the same number and we come back.
What Fontana Customers Say
They quoted our re-roof plane by plane and showed us the reflectance listing for the shingle before we signed. The west side was shot and the north side had years left, and they said so instead of selling us the whole roof.
Upstairs was unbearable every August. They found the soffit vents buried under blown insulation, cleared and baffled them, and cut a ridge slot. Attic is dramatically cooler and the bill was smaller than the two other quotes.
Slipped tiles and a loose hip after a windy week. They reset everything on new fasteners, lifted a section to check the underlayment, and told us it had life in it rather than pitching a full relay. Photos of everything.
Another company wanted to spray our shingle roof with a white coating. These guys explained why that voids the warranty and traps moisture, then quoted a cool-rated replacement. Straight answers and a clean job site.
Service Areas
Fontana Roof Pros serves Fontana, CA and surrounding communities including:
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Fontana require a cool roof when I replace my shingles?
In most cases yes. Fontana is in California climate zone 10, and a re-roof that covers more than half the roof has to use a product with an aged solar reflectance of at least 0.20 and a thermal emittance of 0.75, or an SRI of 16, listed with the Cool Roof Rating Council.
Cool-rated shingles come in greys, weathered wood and driftwood tones now, so this is not a white-roof requirement. There is also an exception for coverings set over an inch of air space, which is how most tile roofs comply.
How long does a roof actually last in Fontana?
Shorter than the number on the warranty, and it varies by plane. A dark composition roof on a west-facing plane commonly needs work at fifteen to twenty years here, while the north plane of the same roof still has granule cover and a bonded sealant strip. Concrete tile lasts far longer than the underlayment beneath it.
A cool-rated field and a properly vented attic are the two things that move the number in your favor, and neither is expensive at replacement time.
Why is my upstairs so hot when my roof is only ten years old?
Usually intake, not the roof. Attic ventilation needs air coming in low and leaving high, and on most Fontana houses the soffit intake is blocked by blown insulation, painted shut, or was never cut through the sheathing. Adding more exhaust without fixing intake makes it worse, because the attic then draws conditioned air out of the house.
We measure net free intake area against attic floor area, clear and baffle the eaves, and cut a continuous ridge slot where the roof geometry allows one.
I have granule loss and small craters. Is that hail damage?
Almost certainly not. Fontana is not a hail market. Round, sharp-edged craters scattered evenly across every plane with the mat intact underneath are heat blisters, and hail large enough to damage shingles also dents soft metals, so we check vent caps, gutters and the air-conditioner fins. If there are no dents in any of that, it is a hot roof rather than a storm. We will put that in writing rather than helping you file a claim that gets denied.
Is a coating a cheaper alternative to replacing my shingle roof?
No, and we turn that work down. Coating asphalt shingles voids most manufacturer warranties, stops the mat from drying, and does nothing about the volatile oils heat has already cooked out. Reflectance on a shingle roof belongs in the granules, chosen at replacement. Coatings are genuinely excellent on a sound low-slope membrane or a modified bitumen cap sheet, which is why we install them on patio covers, additions and small commercial roofs.
Do you charge for the inspection, and what do I get?
The estimate inspection is free. A standalone condition report is a paid service, and it is different work: photographs by plane, granule and bond grading, attic deck condition, a ventilation measurement, an estimated remaining service life as a range, and a list split into fix now, budget for, and leave alone. Buyers in escrow and property managers usually want the paid report. Owners deciding on a re-roof usually do not need it.