Roofing Contractor in Santa Cruz County, CA

Three roofing climates between the Highway 17 summit and Monterey Bay

A roof in Boulder Creek and a roof in Capitola can be the same age and fail for opposite reasons. One rots from shade and needles; the other corrodes from spray and wind. We sort county work into three zones before we price anything.

• Mountain and valley towns (Scotts Valley, Felton, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Bonny Doon): heavy winter rain, redwood and pine litter in gutters and roof valleys, moss on north faces, falling limbs in wind, and wildfire construction rules on many parcels.
• The coast (Santa Cruz, Live Oak, Pleasure Point, Capitola, Rio del Mar, La Selva Beach): salt air on drip edge, nails and steel gutters, fog that keeps wood trim wet, and storm surf that battered the waterfront in January 2023.
• South county farm and valley land (Watsonville, Corralitos, Interlaken): older stucco and wood-frame homes, barns and packing sheds, low-slope outbuildings, and the Pajaro River flood history.

Cities and communities we cover across the county

Each place below has its own page with the local permit office, roads and roof problems we plan for there.

San Lorenzo Valley and the Highway 17 corridor

• Scotts Valley roofing, the first city past the summit
• Felton roof repair and reroofs beside Henry Cowell Redwoods
• Ben Lomond roofers for shaded cabins along Highway 9
• Boulder Creek roofing at the top of the valley
• Bonny Doon roof rebuilds after the CZU fire

Santa Cruz and mid-county

• Santa Cruz roofing contractor for Victorians and Westside bungalows
• Live Oak roofing for unincorporated beach cottages
• Pleasure Point roofers along East Cliff Drive
• Capitola roof repair near the Esplanade
• Soquel roofing from the village into the hills

Aptos coast and south county

• Aptos roofing contractor by the Forest of Nisene Marks
• Rio del Mar roofing on the bluffs and the flats
• La Selva Beach roofers in the fog belt
• Watsonville roofing contractor for homes and ag buildings
• Corralitos roofing for farmhouses and barns
• Interlaken roof work around Pinto Lake

Which permit office handles a Santa Cruz County reroof?

Four incorporated cities issue their own building permits. Everything else, including the large unincorporated communities, goes through the County of Santa Cruz Planning Department. We confirm the office for your parcel before the estimate is final, and we check CAL FIRE's Fire Hazard Severity Zone map, because mapped parcels fall under California Building Code Chapter 7A for roofs and vents.

Loma Prieta, the CZU fire and the 2023 storms: what they left on county roofs

Three events still show up when we climb a roof in this county.

• 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: the USGS places the epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Aptos. Many brick chimneys cracked or fell; some were rebuilt and some were patched, so we check every chimney for loose mortar and failed flashing.
• 2020 CZU Lightning Complex: CAL FIRE reports nearly 1,500 structures destroyed, many in Bonny Doon and the upper San Lorenzo Valley. Rebuilds follow Chapter 7A, and surviving homes often want ember-resistant vents and a Class A roof at the next reroof.
• Winter 2022–2023 atmospheric rivers: coastal storms broke the Capitola Wharf, falling trees punctured mountain roofs, and in March 2023 a Pajaro River levee breach flooded the town of Pajaro across the river from Watsonville.

How a visit over the hill is scheduled

1. You call or send the form with your address and the problem. We tell you when an estimator can make the Highway 17 trip.
2. On site we inspect the roof, gutters, flashing and attic access, and take photos of what we find so you see it too.
3. You get a written, itemized estimate. Workmanship terms are written on it; material warranties come from the maker under its own terms.
4. We file with the right permit office, schedule the crew around the weather, and clean up and haul debris away each day.

For an active storm leak, phone us and we will give you a realistic arrival window for a tarping crew. Highway 17 closures and slides can change a day's plan, and we say so up front.

What we can and can't show you about our Santa Cruz County work

Our 64 Google reviews come mostly from Santa Clara County homeowners, and we have no project photo gallery from this county to show you yet. We won't invent one. What we offer instead is plain: the drive time from Campbell for your town, the permit office for your parcel, photos from your own roof, and an itemized estimate you can compare line by line.