Long Beach roofing is a corrosion problem wearing a roofing disguise. Salt-laden marine air attacks nails, flashing, vents and fixings faster than it touches the covering above them, and much of the older stock is flat or low-slope where those details carry the water. This page lists roofers serving Long Beach.
What Long Beach roofers handle
Flat and low-slope membrane roofing across the older and multi-family stock.
Corrosion-aware fastening and flashing on everything within reach of the marine layer.
Composition shingle replacement on the pitched suburban housing.
Tile underlayment replacement on the Spanish-style stock.
Roof drain and scupper work on flat roofs.
Cool-roof compliant re-covers meeting Title 24 values.
Licensing in California
California requires a C-39 Roofing Contractor licence from the Contractors State License Board on any roofing work worth more than $500 including materials — low enough that every real job is covered.
Behind that licence sits four years of journey-level experience, a trade exam, a law and business exam, and a $25,000 contractor’s bond. Verify any number at cslb.ca.gov before signing.
One detail specific to this trade: C-39 is among the classifications that cannot claim a workers’ compensation exemption. A roofer claiming to be exempt is either unlicensed or misinformed, and either way the liability lands on you if someone is hurt on your roof.
Two codes govern the work, and a re-roof can be caught by both.
- Title 24, Part 6. The 2025 Building Energy Efficiency Standards took effect 1 January 2026 and set thermal emittance, three-year aged reflectance and Solar Reflectance Index values for roofing materials. Cool-roof compliance applies to most re-roofing, not only new build.
- The California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (CWUIC). Also effective 1 January 2026, under Title 24 Part 7. It replaced Chapter 7A, which was deleted from the Building Code and relocated wholesale. It requires a Class A fire-rated roof assembly for re-roofing on any property in a mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone.
A house in a mapped zone must satisfy both at once — a Class A assembly that also meets the cool-roof values for its climate zone. Ask which zone your address sits in before comparing quotes.
What’s specific to Long Beach
Salt air is the ageing mechanism. Within the coastal strip, fasteners and flashing corrode years ahead of the covering. Material choice on those small metal parts decides roof life, and it is the easiest place for a cheap bid to save money invisibly — you find out when a nail head rusts through and the shingle above it lifts.
Flat roofs dominate the older housing. Long Beach’s bungalow courts, duplexes and multi-family stock are largely low-slope. They fail by ponding and seam failure, and they are maintained on a coating cycle rather than replaced outright.
Marine layer keeps roofs damp. Slow drying and persistent morning moisture mean organic growth on shaded planes and debris that stays wet, which matters more here than the low rainfall total suggests.
Port and industrial air adds particulates. Grit and airborne deposits accumulate in valleys and drains, and on a low-slope roof that becomes a drainage problem before it becomes a covering problem.
Pricing expectations
Long Beach figures for 2026 — read the caveat below before using any of them:
- Asphalt shingles: $8,000–$15,000; architectural $12,000–$20,000
- Tile: $18,000–$35,000+; metal $20,000–$40,000
- Per square foot: asphalt $4–$7, tile $10–$18, metal $12–$20
- Permit: one local contractor publishes $550–$1,000, including Title 24 documentation
- Commercial and low-slope only: TPO $5–$12 per square foot, general commercial $7–$15
Long Beach has the weakest published pricing of any city on this site, and it would be dishonest to present these figures as firmly as the others. Checking the sources found that the most detailed “Long Beach” cost pages are produced outside the city — one by a North Hollywood contractor about 30 miles away, another by a lead-matching site whose registered address is in Houston, Texas, and a third that publishes near-identical programmatically generated city pages and contradicts itself on price between two of them. Several traced their numbers back to national aggregators rather than local work, and one quoted permit fees for the wrong county entirely. What survived is thin, and the permit band above is one named contractor’s assertion rather than a published City fee. Treat all of it as a rough bracket, get three local quotes, and weight what you are told in person over anything above.
These are ranges local roofing companies publish for this metro rather than survey data, so treat them as a bracket to check a quote against, not a price list.
Two contract items: the actual City of Long Beach permit fee, since no published source states it reliably, and the fastener and flashing spec, given salt air — stainless is standard near the shoreline.
Neighborhoods served
Roofers listed here work across Long Beach, including Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, Naples, California Heights, Alamitos Beach, Los Altos, Wrigley, Downtown, Signal Hill and East Long Beach.
Most also serve surrounding cities — Lakewood, Seal Beach, Carson, Torrance, San Pedro, Cerritos, Huntington Beach and Compton.
How this directory helps
Every roofer here is listed with business name, address and phone so you can verify them yourself.
Three questions sort Long Beach contractors. Ask for the C-39 number and check it at cslb.ca.gov. Ask what fasteners and flashing metal they specify this close to the water. And on a flat roof, ask what the plan is for drainage, not just covering.