Tempe roofing: tile re-felts, roof repair, and full replacements.

How Tempe homes are built:

Tempe's roof inventory is older than most of the East Valley because the city stopped having room to grow decades ago. The mid-century neighborhoods (Maple-Ash, Mitchell Park West, Mitchell Park East, Don Carlos, Tempe Gardens, North Tempe) were built from the late 1940s through the 1960s, originally with shingle or built-up roofs. Many have since been recovered with tile or new shingle, so the underlayment under the current roof varies by which decade it was last touched.

The 1970s and 1980s tile build-out is the largest single cohort in Tempe today. Lakeshore, Cyprus, Carillon, Daley Park, Optimist Park, University Estates, Escalante, and the McClintock-corridor neighborhoods went up on concrete tile in a tight window, and standard tile underlayment is engineered for roughly 20 to 25 years of Arizona sun. Most of that stock is now on its second underlayment cycle, or overdue for one. A tile re-felt lifts the existing tiles, strips the worn underlayment down to the deck, installs new underlayment, and resets the tile.

Outside the tile majority, Tempe has foam on flat sections behind parapet walls and over additions, plus asphalt shingle on a minority of homes (a handful of 1980s and 1990s tracts and older mid-century recovers). Tempe's published reroof policy exempts same-material reroofs from a building permit as long as the plywood sheathing does not need replacement, so the timeline gate on most Tempe re-roofs and re-felts is HOA approval, not city paperwork. Roof Boyz prepares the HOA submittal where one is required.