Tile Roofers in Mesa: Who Does the Work and How to Compare Bids

Tile is easy to damage and expensive to get wrong, and the damage can come from the people sent to fix it. A roofer who walks it wrongly leaves cracked tiles behind. One who pries where he should lift breaks the neighbors of the tile he came for. One who mortars tile that was never meant to be mortared makes every future repair cost more. Choosing among tile roofers in Mesa is mostly a matter of finding out how each one actually handles tile.

We are Circle G Roofing, a family run company that is licensed, bonded and insured in Arizona and has worked on roofs across the Valley for more than 20 years. This page describes who comes to your house, how we work on tile, and the questions we would ask any tile roofer, ourselves included.

Who comes to your house

Our own crew does the work. It carries out the repair, clears the debris and walks the finished roof with you, and it is the same family run crew from one job to the next. We are based in Scottsdale and Mesa is part of our regular service area, along with Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert next door.

The office is open Monday to Saturday, 6 am to 6 pm. The emergency leak line is answered around the clock, because Mesa’s storms do not keep office hours.

How we work on a tile roof

We walk only the supported courses

An installed roof tile is supported along its lower edge, where it rests on the tile below, and unsupported across its middle. Tile manufacturers tell professionals to step on the bottom three inches of the tile for that reason, and they often do not cover breakage from foot traffic. We step on the supported edge of each course and nowhere else. It is slower. It is also the difference between an inspection and a new set of cracks.

We lift and stack, we do not pry

To get at the underlayment, tile has to come up. We lift each tile free and stack it in order on the roof, so every piece goes back where it came from. Tile that is levered out against its neighbors cracks them, and the repair grows by every tile broken on the way in.

We put the roof back the way the manufacturer intended

A cheap repair that sets tile in mortar where it was never meant to be mortared locks the roof up, and the next repair costs more because of it. We do not do that. We put the roof back the way the manufacturer intended, so the next person who has to open it can.

We show photos before we name a price

During the inspection we get on the roof, lift tile where we need to, look at the underlayment and the flashing, and photograph what we find. You see the evidence first and the figure second. The price is fixed, in writing and itemized by tile, underlayment and flashing before any work begins.

We recommend the smaller job when it will do

A roofer who only sells full replacements will find that every roof needs one. We repair what can be repaired. If the tile is sound and the underlayment has failed, we relay the tile you already own. If one tile is cracked and the layer under it is healthy, we change one tile. Our tile roof repair Mesa AZ page describes each of those jobs.

Questions to ask any tile roofer in Mesa

These are the questions that separate one bid from another. Put them to every company you call.

Ask	Why it matters	What a good answer sounds like
Will you lift tile during the inspection?	The underlayment is the waterproof layer, and it cannot be judged from above.	Yes, and you will get photos of what is under it.
Which underlayment will you use?	It decides how long the roof lasts in Mesa’s heat.	A named high-temperature product, written into the quote.
Is the price fixed and itemized?	A single lump sum cannot be compared with another bid.	Tile, underlayment and flashing are listed separately, in writing, before work starts.
How do you match my tile?	Older profiles go out of production.	The profile is identified and sourced first. If it cannot be found, sound tile is moved from a slope nobody sees.
Who is on the roof?	You should know whether the company or a subcontractor does the work.	A direct answer. Ours is that our own crew does the work.
How do you leave the roof at night?	Mesa’s rain arrives in sudden bursts during the monsoon.	It is never left open overnight.
What happens if you find rotten deck?	It can only be seen once the tile and underlayment are off.	You are shown it and given a figure before it is touched.

What a written tile roofing scope should contain

• The slopes or areas of the roof being worked on.
• The underlayment product by name.
• How valleys, wall flashing and each pipe or vent will be treated.
• Which tile is reused and which is new, with the profile and color of the new tile.
• How hips and ridges will be finished.
• Who clears the site and hauls away broken tile and old underlayment.
• The fixed price, and the terms that apply to that job.

Our proposals set the scope and the job-specific terms out in writing. One point we are careful about: the 5-year warranty we publish applies to full foam roof makeovers only. It is not a warranty on tile work, and we would rather say so here than have it assumed.

Signs a bid was written without opening the roof

A tile roof cannot be priced honestly from the driveway or from a satellite picture. These are the signs that a bid was.

• No photos of the underlayment. If nobody lifted a tile, nobody knows what condition the waterproof layer is in.
• A figure given by phone. We do not quote tile work by phone, because the answer depends on what is under the tile.
• One line and one number. A bid that says tile roof repair and a total tells you nothing about what will be done.
• Underlayment left unnamed. The words new underlayment could mean almost any product.
• A full replacement as the only option. On a sound structure with sound tile, a relay should at least have been considered.
• No mention of matching. If the bid does not say where replacement tile is coming from, ask.

None of these proves a roofer is careless. Each is a reason to ask one more question before you sign.

Checking a roofer before you sign

Arizona licenses contractors through the Registrar of Contractors, and its website has a public contractor search. Look up any company you are considering and confirm that its license is active and covers roofing. We are licensed, bonded and insured, and our company website links straight to our own record so you do not have to take that on trust.

After a monsoon storm, be wary of anyone who knocks on the door with an offer that expires the same afternoon. Ask where the company is based and look up its license before you agree to anything. Nobody reputable needs a decision on the doorstep, and a roofer who has to be chosen in ten minutes is not one who lifts tile and takes photographs first.

Why local knowledge matters on Mesa tile

Mesa is not one kind of roof. The city runs about 18 miles from Price Road in the west to Meridian Road in the east, and it was built in stages. As we describe the city on our own website, older ranch homes nearer downtown have flat or low-slope roofs, the newer subdivisions to the east are tile, and there are manufactured home communities and commercial buildings as well.

That spread changes the job from one address to the next. In Dobson Ranch, built between 1973 and 1999, the question can be whether a tile profile is still made. In Las Sendas, a master-planned community in the desert foothills of eastern Mesa with private gated neighborhoods, the first things to settle are what the community’s design rules allow and how a crew gets through the gate. In the eight locally designated historic districts, the City’s Planning office has a say before a roof is replaced. In Eastmark, which opened in 2013, the oldest roofs are only now reaching the age at which we expect underlayment to need attention. A roofer who works here regularly knows to ask which of those applies before pricing anything.

Our tile roofing near me page goes through Mesa area by area.

What happens after you call

1. Free roof inspection. We lift tile, photograph what is underneath and tell you what we found, whether or not there is work to do.
2. Written fixed price. Tiles, underlayment and flashing are itemized before any work starts.
3. The work, done right. Our crew carries it out, clears the debris and walks the finished roof with you.

If the inspection shows the roof needs more than a repair, our tile roofing Mesa AZ page explains relays, replacements and new tile roofs. More about our company is on circlegroofing.com.

Other roofing we do

Tile is one part of our work. We are best known for spray foam roofing, and we also apply polyurea and silicone roof coatings and work on flat roofs and asphalt roofing. That is useful on a Mesa house with a tile roof over the main rooms and a flat roof over a patio or an addition, because one company can work on both sides of the joint between them.

Common questions