What the Committee
Actually Wants to See
Across Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma and Chino Hills a lot of our customers are in an HOA, and we run into it out in Orange County too, Laguna Niguel included, where the associations tend to be stricter about it than the ones out here. In my experience what a committee wants is specific: the manufacturer, the profile and the color, not a description. Some want a physical sample. Some want a spec sheet. A few want both, and a few want to see the neighbor's roof it will match.
So we bring the actual samples and the manufacturer spec sheets to the estimate. You have what the committee asks for in your hands before you submit, rather than after they send it back. When you are close enough to Eagle's Rialto showroom, the plant trip helps here too: it is a lot easier to submit a color you have held in the sun than one you picked off a screen.
How the Timeline Works
- Estimate: we walk the roof, talk through the options, and leave you with the sample and the spec sheet for the material you are leaning toward
- Submittal: you (or your management company) file the architectural request with the manufacturer, profile and color named; we supply anything else the form asks for, including a written scope and our license and insurance
- Approval: timelines vary a lot by association, from a week to a couple of months, so we say this to everyone: start the submittal early, before you have signed anything
- Order: nobody orders tile before the committee has approved it, because a special-order color is not something you unwind
- Install: permit pulled, work done, and a copy of the final inspection for your file, which some associations ask for at the end
Two Honest Cautions
First, an HOA approving a color is not the same as the city approving the material. Rancho Cucamonga, for one, requires Planning Department approval before you change roof material type, which covers every tile to shingle conversion. We handle the city side; the association side needs you, because you are the member. Second, "HOA compliant" is not a product. It means the system we quote meets the rules your association actually has, and the only way to know those rules is to read your CC&Rs and the architectural guidelines. We read them with you.
The four things we do, all of them HOA-ready when the paperwork is done right: asphalt shingle roofs, tile roof replacement with new tile, tile lift and relay, and flat roofing. A lift and relay is the one most committees do not need to approve at all, since your own tile goes back on and nothing visible changes. Ask yours.
Usually not, because your existing tile goes back on and the roof looks the same from the street. Some associations still want notice of any roof work, so ask before you assume.
We supply everything the request needs: manufacturer, profile, color, spec sheet, sample, a written scope, and our license and insurance. The submittal itself goes in under the member's name, so you or your management company files it.
It varies a lot. We have seen a week and we have seen two months. Start early, before signing, and never let anyone order special-order tile before the approval is in writing.
Then we go back to the samples. Nothing is ordered until approval, so a rejection costs time, not money. That is the whole reason for the order of operations above.