About
The business in short: the Rialto roofs we work on, how a job gets scoped and priced in writing, and the kinds of work we say no to.
A Rialto roofing business built around the first rain
Lilac Roofing works Rialto: roof repair, leak tracing, emergency stopgaps, storm repair, flat roof repair and tile repair, on a housing stock that runs from the old townsite around Riverside Avenue to the golf-course streets of El Rancho Verde.
The site is built around the way roofs here fail: quietly through a dry summer, then all at once in the first hard rain. A wet-day visit stops the water and says so in writing; the dry-day visit makes the repair. Every quote is written, and every stopgap is labeled as one.
- Roof repair only: no siding, windows, gutters, solar or remodeling
- No storm paperwork of any kind
- Rialto and its neighborhoods only
- No permanent repair made on a wet roof
Four steps, no surprises
In the rain we stop the water; the repair is made dry, with a written quote before any work.
Tell us what you are seeing
The address, where the water is showing, how fast it is coming, and whether it is raining now.
A stopgap if it is wet
On a wet day the water is stopped and nothing more: a tarp or a temporary seal, photographed and written down as temporary, quoted on its own.
The trace on a dry day
Once the roof is dry, the stain is followed back from the attic to where the water got in, and the repair is quoted in writing with anything that can wait marked as such.
The repair, then the walkaround
The stopgap comes off, the failed detail is fixed and closed, and photographs are taken before and after.
How to choose a roofer in Rialto, CA when it is raining
Every one of these is checkable, and every one of them is on ours.
They call a stopgap a stopgap
A tarp or a temporary seal in the rain is fine. Calling it the repair is not. Ask how it will be written up.
They wait for dry weather to repair
Membranes, sealants and tile work all need a dry surface.
They trace before they seal
The stain is where the water stopped. A good roofer follows it back to the entry point before anything goes on the roof.
They put the license and the price on paper
California's roofing class is the CSLB C-39, and a license is required once the total contract price reaches $1,000.
Want a figure on it?
The estimated range before we travel, and the figure in writing before any work starts.