From Discontinued Monier
to New Eagle Tile
A homeowner in Etiwanda wanted his house to look new again, and the roof was the start of it. Here is the whole tile replacement, step by step, with the drone up for most of it.
A homeowner in Etiwanda wanted his house to look new again, and the roof was the start of it. Here is the whole tile replacement, step by step, with the drone up for most of it.
This one is in Etiwanda, on the east side of Rancho Cucamonga. The roof was an older Monier concrete tile, a profile that isn't made anymore. The reason for the job was the look. The homeowner wants a modern refresh that adds value to the home, and the house is getting painted too. The roof is the first piece of that.
When the tile on a roof is still sound, the honest job is usually a tile lift and relay: your tile comes up, new underlayment goes down, the same tile goes back on. That keeps the look you already have. This homeowner wanted a different look, so the tile itself had to change, and that makes it a tile replacement. And when the old tile is a profile nobody makes anymore, matching broken pieces later only gets harder. I wrote more about that decision in New Tile or a Relay?.
A tile replacement is the bespoke side of roofing, because you are choosing what goes on the house for decades. Some homeowners want to see the tile in person at Eagle's Rialto showroom first, and we go with them. This homeowner knew what he wanted and picked from the Eagle catalog. Either way, the tile is made for your order, and that can take up to two weeks. We tell you that up front.
The old tile came off, and so did the old underlayment, down to the deck. Then the part nobody sees once the job is done: Westlake Royal TileSeal HT, a self-adhered peel and stick underlayment, across the whole deck, new metal valleys, and new pipe flashings. The tile is the armor. The underlayment is what keeps the water out, and it is the layer a cheap quote cuts, because you never see it again. The full order of layers is in Tile Roof Installation, Layer by Layer.
On September 30 the new Eagle tile went up on the roof and got staged in stacks across every section, ready for the crew to lay course by course from the eave up.
On October 1 the drone went back up with the crew laying tile one plane at a time. Every tile gets fastened. The underlayment keeps the water out, and the fasteners hold the tile down.
Hips and ridges, cleanup, and the final inspection with the city. I will add the finished drone shots to this post when we wrap.
The tile is what you see from the street. The underlayment is what keeps the water out.
Free in-home estimate, in writing, with every layer listed. We do tile replacement with new tile, tile lift and relay, asphalt shingle roofs and flat roofs across the Inland Empire.
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