Almost half of Glendale's homes went up in the 1970s and 80s. Those are shingle-era roofs, and most are well past the end of the line.
Glendale's median home was built in 1986, but the more useful number is the distribution: roughly 23% of Glendale housing was built in the 1970s and another 23% in the 1980s. Nearly half the city predates 1990, which is a very different profile from the East Valley.
Practically, that means Glendale is a shingle city more than a tile city. Homes from that era were largely built with asphalt shingle, and after 35 to 50 years of Arizona UV exposure those roofs are typically on their second or third replacement. The failure pattern is different too — granule loss, curling, and brittleness across the whole roof rather than a single leak you can chase down.
North Glendale is the exception. Arrowhead Ranch and the communities around it went up in the 1990s and 2000s with tile, which puts them on the same underlayment clock as the East Valley. And the West Valley takes a real beating in monsoon season, so storm and haboob damage is a bigger share of our Glendale calls than it is elsewhere.
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Learn more →Water coming in, a stain on the ceiling, or tile on the ground after a storm — four different problems, one call. Free inspection, photographs of what we actually find, and an honest answer about whether you need the work.
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Learn more →If your home is from the 1970s or 1980s and still has asphalt shingle, it has almost certainly been replaced at least once already — and that replacement may itself now be aging out. The tell on an old shingle roof isn't usually a dramatic leak; it's granules in the gutters, shingles that curl at the edges, and brittleness that makes them crack when walked on. Those are whole-roof symptoms, and patching rarely makes sense at that point.
We document them thoroughly, which is the part that actually matters. After a monsoon or wind event we photograph the damage, write an itemized estimate, and give you everything your carrier needs to evaluate the claim. We're not the insurance company and we can't promise what they'll approve, but well-documented wind and hail damage is commonly covered.
It can help, though it's rarely dramatic on its own. Reflective tile, a coated or foam roof, and properly functioning attic ventilation all reduce how much heat gets into your attic, which is one of the larger drivers of summer cooling load on older Glendale homes. The homes that see the biggest change are usually the ones that also had poor insulation or blocked ventilation — we look at all three during the inspection rather than just quoting the roof.
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