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AA California Roofing provides roof repair in Santa Monica, CA: leak repair on the flat roofs of apartment and mixed-use buildings, tile and shingle repair on older homes, and full roof replacement when a repair no longer makes sense. We are a licensed roofing contractor (CSLB #1147688), we pull the City permit, and we have repaired roofs for Santa Monica homeowners.
Book a free estimate or a leak check through our contact page.
How we find and fix leaks is covered in more depth on our roof repair page.
Santa Monica is a city of renters and multi-unit buildings. Census estimates (American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024) show that 72.1% of occupied homes are rented, only 19.3% of the city’s 53,274 housing units are detached houses, and 45.3% sit in buildings of ten or more units. More than a third of all units (36.7%) were built between 1960 and 1979, and 13.5% date from before 1940.
So the person calling about a leak is often a building owner, a condo board or a property manager, and the roof is often one large low-slope surface over many units. Two things follow:
Santa Monica’s Building and Safety Division evaluates all plan reviews and permit submittals under the 2025 California code, effective January 1, 2026. The process is fully paperless: documents are uploaded to the City’s Electronic Plan Review system before any visit to the public counter. Two quick paths cover most roof work:
| Building | Permit path for a re-roof | What the City specifies |
|---|---|---|
| Single-family house | Express Permit: no plan review, applied for online | Class A or B roof covering weighing less than 6 lb per sq ft, over existing or new solid sheathing; a cool roof product certified by the Cool Roof Rating Council when more than 50% of the roof is replaced |
| Single-family landmark, or a house on the Historic Resources Inventory | Express Permit for set scopes | Remove the roof tiles, apply new underlayment and reset the tiles (cool-roof compliance not required); or apply an approved coating to the existing roof |
| Apartment, condominium or commercial building | Not eligible for an Express Permit; reroofs can go through Same-Day Review at the public counter | Reviewed and approved in a single visit once the documents are uploaded; mechanical, electrical or plumbing work over the City’s thresholds goes to formal plan review |
A few more rules from the City. The roof covering of every building must be fire-retardant under the state building codes and Santa Monica Municipal Code 8.12.070 (Information Bulletin IB-2024-09). A building permit is issued to a licensed contractor authorized to do the work. Projects with 1,000 square feet or more of area, or above a set valuation, need an approved Construction and Demolition Waste Management Plan from the City’s Zero Waste team before the counter visit.
Santa Monica’s ZIP codes 90401 through 90405 are all in state Climate Zone 6. The 2025 Energy Code sets no reflectance minimum for a steep-slope house re-roof in Zone 6, but the City’s Express Permit terms still call for a certified cool roof product when more than half of a house’s roof is replaced.
Flat roofs carry a state rule for houses and apartment buildings alike: an aged solar reflectance of at least 0.63 (or an SRI of 75), or R-10 continuous insulation at the deck in its place. Apartment buildings hit that rule sooner on big roofs: it starts when the altered area passes half the roof or 2,000 square feet, whichever comes first (2025 Energy Code, Sections 150.2 and 180.2).
Santa Monica adopted its Landmarks and Historic District Ordinance on March 24, 1976. City staff and the Landmarks Commission review applications for a Certificate of Appropriateness, a Certificate of Administrative Approval or a Certificate of Exemption on designated properties. The City’s list, revised in June 2023, names five historic districts:
Beyond the districts, the City’s Historic Resources Inventory, last adopted in 2018, is a survey of every property in Santa Monica that flags potential historic resources. Listed single-family homes get the Express Permit scopes in the table above. Before choosing a new roof material, check the address on the City’s interactive map of landmarks, structures of merit and historic districts, linked from its Historic Resources Inventory page.
From a Google review posted in October 2026: “Amit and his team did a roof repair at my home in Santa Monica and did an excellent job.” The homeowner wrote that the crew “showed up on time, explained everything clearly, and left everything clean when they finished.”
Email aacaliforniaroofing@gmail.com or send a request through our contact page. Our roofers work across Los Angeles County, including the Westside, and in nearby Ventura County cities; our office is at 21243 Ventura Blvd #259, Woodland Hills, CA 91364.
The full list of cities is on our areas we serve page, and our other services start from the AA California Roofing home page.
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