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How long does a roof replacement take in Los Angeles?

In Los Angeles, the typical finished roofing job took 26 days from permit to final inspection (20,043 finished of 25,665 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024; 22% had no final inspection on record by September 2026).

26 daysfrom permit to final inspectionMiddle half: 14 days to 56 days

The two steps

How long roofing jobs take in Los Angeles, in daysPermit issued to final inspection: median 26 days, middle half 14 to 56 days, 20,043 permits.Permit issued to final inspection: 26 days014 d28 d42 d56 d
Bars show the median; the line through each bar spans the middle half of jobs.
The numbers behind the chart
StepMedianMiddle halfPermitsPermits issued
Permit to final inspection26 days14 days to 56 days20,043September 2022 to September 2024

Roofing contractors with the most jobs in Los Angeles

RankContractorJobsContact
1Best Roofing La
licensed 2 years
757
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2Smart Roofing Inc
licensed 6 years
532
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3S L R Construction and Remodeling Inc
Encino, licensed 10 years
503
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Why it takes this long

  • 84% of finished jobs passed final inspection within 90 days of the permit.
  • Of the 25,665 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024, 5,622 (22%) had no final inspection on record by September 2026. They may still be under way, dropped or never inspected; the records do not say which. They are left out of the build time; any of them that finishes will have taken more than two years, so counting them would make the typical time longer.
  • The permit wait is not shown: 100% of 24,330 permits carry no application date, so the rest would not show the typical wait.

Days are counted between the dates on each city permit: submitted_date, issue_date; final: status 'Permit Finaled' or a certificate, dated by cofo_date or status_date. Median and middle half: half of the jobs took longer than the median; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. A figure is shown only when it rests on 30 or more permits. Kinds of work are sorted by the same rules as our contractor lists. Source: City of Los Angeles, Building Permits Issued from 2020 to Present, read 2026-09-24. The same figures as data: roofing.json.