How Ridgeline Roofing Co. Was Born
The call came in during a wet February in 1984. A homeowner in the San Fernando Valley had paid another company to fix a leak that had opened above her kitchen table. They’d taken her money, slapped on some tar, and vanished. The leak came back harder. She found our number through a supplier who knew we weren’t afraid to clean up someone else’s mess.
We climbed up that afternoon. The previous crew had layered new shingles over rotted decking, hidden the damage with a patch of tar paper, and called it done. It took us three days to strip it back to sound wood, re-deck, and re-shingle properly. She paid us less than she’d paid them, and she cried when we finished. Not from relief, from anger at what she’d been put through.
That night, Pete Navarro sat on his own porch in Woodland Hills and wrote three sentences on a yellow legal pad: No hiding damage. No billing for work not done. No walking away until it’s right. Ridgeline Roofing Co. started the next morning with those three rules and a borrowed ladder. What began as one truck and a phone answered from a kitchen table has grown into a network of local teams across California and beyond, but those three sentences still sit framed in every office we open.
Pete Navarro’s Personal Connection to the Roofing Trade
Pete didn’t choose roofing. Roofing chose him through his hands.
He was nineteen, working a warehouse job he hated, when the tradesman who trained us, a man whose name we never learned but whose patience we still try to match, needed help on a Saturday. Pete showed up for the extra cash. He stayed for the feel of it: the give of a shingle under a roofing hatchet, the smell of hot asphalt on a July afternoon, the way a crew could start with stripped decking and finish with something that would keep a family dry for thirty years.
That first summer, Pete learned to read a roof the way a farmer reads sky. He learned that a ridge vent installed wrong doesn’t fail in the installer’s lifetime, it fails in the homeowner’s. He learned that the cheapest bid usually hides the most expensive surprise. And he learned that most people don’t climb up to check the work, so the work has to be its own witness.
What gets him out of bed now, forty-two years later, isn’t different from what got him up then. It’s the call from someone who’s been told they need a whole new roof, and our inspection shows a $400 repair. It’s the homeowner who watches us photograph every step from their own ridge line, then sits down with them to explain what they’re actually looking at. It’s the knowledge that a roof is the only part of a house most people never touch, yet it protects everything they own.
If Pete weren’t doing this, he’d probably be fixing something else. Building furniture. Restoring old trucks. The man’s hands don’t rest well. But roofing fits him because it demands both precision and endurance, and because the result matters to people in a way a cabinet or a fender never quite does. A roof is shelter. That’s not abstract. That’s someone sleeping dry tonight.
Meet Pete Navarro - The Person Behind Every Job
Pete Navarro, Owner and Founder of Ridgeline Roofing Co.
Pete started on a crew in 1982, swinging a hatchet before most of today’s roofers were born. He holds every state license his work requires, has trained under journeymen who learned the trade before power nailers existed, and has personally inspected more roofs than he could count if he were the counting kind. He’s certified with Atlas and GAF, not because the wall plaques impress anyone, but because those manufacturers hold their installers to standards Pete already believed in.
What separates Pete from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who answers when a local team has a question they can’t solve. He’s the one who still climbs when a job goes wrong and someone needs to see it with their own eyes. On weekends, you’ll find him in his workshop building acoustic guitars, a hobby that demands the same patience and exactness as a proper valley installation. He believes a roof, like a guitar, either resonates right or it doesn’t, and there’s no faking the difference.
His commitment to every homeowner who calls us is direct: your roof will be inspected by eyes that know what they’re seeing, priced with numbers that don’t shift, and finished to a standard Pete would accept on his own mother’s house.
Our Promise to Homeowners
Our values aren’t posters on a wall. They’re the K.E.Y.S. we check against on every job.
Krafted right means trained journeymen, proper materials, no shortcuts. We use Tamko and Boral products on jobs where they’re the right fit, not because they’re cheapest or because someone gave us a volume rebate. A crew once tried to skip the ice-and-water shield on a Pasadena job to save two hours. Pete made them strip it and start over. That crew doesn’t skip steps anymore.
Every time means the four-hundredth job gets the care of the first. We keep photos from every inspection, and we review them randomly. Not to catch people, to remind them that someone’s always watching.
Your home first means we work in your house the way we’d work in our mother’s. Tarps on the landscaping. Nails magnet-swept from the driveway. We don’t leave until you’d be comfortable letting your grandchildren play where we stood.
Standing behind it means if it’s not right, we come back. No paperwork, no arguing. The Keystone Standard, applied to roofing: 90 days, in writing, no arguing. We’ve honored it when we didn’t have to, because the alternative is being the kind of company Pete started this business to replace.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed in every jurisdiction where we operate
- Insured and bonded - full coverage protecting your property and our crews
- 42+ years in business, founded in 1984
- Strong local reputation built one job at a time
These matter because a homeowner hiring someone to work on their roof is inviting strangers onto their property, trusting them with their largest asset, and often making a decision under pressure after a storm or a leak. State licensing means someone with authority has verified our qualifications. Insurance and bonding mean if something goes wrong, you’re not left holding the bill. Four decades in business means we’ve weathered economic cycles, material shortages, and changing codes, and we’re still here to stand behind the work. A strong local reputation means your neighbors have already tested us, and their experience is the review that counts most.
Rooted in the Communities We Serve
We started in Woodland Hills, and that foundation still matters. But Ridgeline Roofing Co. now serves homeowners across Southern California, the Bay Area, and Central Valley communities from San Diego to San Francisco, San Jose to Hayward, Santa Clarita to Santa Ana, Palmdale to Pasadena, Thousand Oaks to Northridge. Each location is staffed by local crews who live where they work, trained to the same standards Pete set in 1984. You reach a live coordinator when you call, someone who connects you with the team nearest your address. No call centers, no routing to a distant city. Just local pros who understand your weather patterns, your permit offices, and the particular way Santa Ana winds test a ridge line.
Named for the ridge - the line where a roof proves itself. That’s where we do our best work.
Written by Pete Navarro, Owner at Ridgeline Roofing Co., serving homeowners across California since 1984.