How Marquis Roof Repair Was Born in Burbank
We started Marquis Roof Repair in 2014, but the real beginning happened a few months before that, on a Tuesday afternoon in the Magnolia Park neighborhood. A homeowner called us out to look at a leak that two other companies had already “fixed.” She’d paid twice. The ceiling in her living room still had a water stain the size of a dinner plate, and every time it rained, she moved her couch to the other side of the room.
We found the problem in under an hour. It wasn’t a missing shingle or a cracked vent boot. It was a valley that had been flashed incorrectly from the start, years before she bought the house. The previous companies had caulked it, tarred it, and gone home. Nobody had actually looked at how the roof was built. We re-flashed the valley, replaced the damaged underlayment, and she hasn’t had a drop of water since.
What stuck with us wasn’t the repair. It was the look on her face when we showed her the photos and explained what had been wrong the whole time. She’d been told twice that her roof was fine, and neither time was true. That’s the moment we knew the kind of company we wanted to run in Burbank: one that treats a roof like a system that has to actually work, not a surface to slap shingles on and walk away from.
Our Founder’s Personal Connection to the Roofing Trade
The first roof we ever worked on was in the San Fernando Valley, and it was August. If you’ve lived in Burbank long enough, you know exactly what that means. The shingles were hot enough to leave the pattern of the granules pressed into your palm if you leaned on them too long. The air coming off the decking smelled like hot asphalt and old pine. By noon, the sweat had soaked through the back of our shirt and dried into a crust of salt. We were sunburned, exhausted, and completely hooked.
What got us wasn’t the physical work, though that part we’ve always loved. It was something quieter. At the end of that first job, we climbed down the ladder and looked back at the roof. The lines were straight. The flashing sat tight against the chimney. The ridge caps ran true from one end to the other. It looked like it belonged there. That feeling, of looking at something you built with your own hands and knowing it will keep the rain out for decades, that never went away.
We’ve spent the years since learning the trade the hardest way available: by doing it. We’ve torn off roofs that were installed wrong by people who should have known better. We’ve fixed leaks that no one else could find, the kind that only show up when the wind blows rain at a certain angle. We’ve worked on Spanish tile in Glendale, flat roofs in North Hollywood, and everything between. Ten-plus years in, we still get the same feeling every time we finish a job. If we weren’t doing this, we’d probably be restoring old cars or building furniture, something with our hands. But roofing is the one that stuck.
What gets us out of bed in the morning isn’t the roof. It’s the family underneath it. When a homeowner in Burbank calls us because water is coming through their ceiling at midnight, they’re not calling about shingles. They’re calling about their daughter’s bedroom, their grandmother’s photo albums, the drywall they just painted. That’s the part we’ve never gotten tired of.
Meet Our Team – The Person Behind Every Job
The person you’ll deal with most is our owner and founder, who started this company in 2014 after seeing too many Burbank homeowners pay twice for the same leak. He’s been on roofs since before he could legally drive, and he’s the one who trains every person who works under the Marquis name. He’s the kind of person who checks the weather forecast before bed, not because he’s worried about his own plans, but because he’s thinking about the job that’s half-finished on a roof in Studio City.
What separates him from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he still goes up on the roofs. He doesn’t sit in an office and send a salesperson to your door with a binder full of financing options. When you call Marquis Roof Repair, the person who shows up to diagnose your roof is the person who owns the outcome.
Off the clock, he’s an obsessive cook, the kind who spends a Sunday afternoon making a stock from scratch just to see if he can. It’s the same patience and attention to detail he brings to a roof. He’s committed to this: every roof we touch in Burbank gets the same care as if it were his own home, because in a way, it is. This is where he lives, where he works, and where he plans to stay.
Our Promise to Burbank Homeowners
We promise honest pricing, and we mean something specific by that. Before we start any work, you get a written, line-item estimate. The number on that estimate is the number you pay, unless you ask us to do something extra, in which case we’ll tell you the cost before we pick up the tool. We don’t play the game where the “inspection” turns into a surprise.
We promise quality parts. We use materials from manufacturers we trust, including IKO, Atlas, and Boral. We don’t install the cheapest shingle we can find and hope for the best. A roof in Burbank has to survive summer heat that bakes the tar out of the shingles and winter rains that test every seam. The parts matter.
We promise to stand behind every job. If something we did isn’t right, we come back and make it right. That’s not a slogan. That’s how we’ve operated since 2014, and it’s why most of our work in Burbank, Glendale, and the surrounding neighborhoods comes from referrals. A roof is too important to gamble on, and a promise is only worth what happens when something goes wrong.
Our Credentials
- Licensed: Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires for roofing work.
- Insured & Bonded: We carry the coverage homeowners should expect from anyone working on their property.
- Local Experience: We’ve been roofing homes in Burbank and the neighboring communities since 2014.
- Reputation: Most of our work comes from homeowners who were referred to us by a neighbor, a friend, or a family member.
Here’s why those things matter. A license means the person on your roof has met a standard, not just watched a YouTube video. Insurance means if something goes wrong, you’re not the one paying for it. Twelve years of local experience means we’ve seen how Burbank roofs fail, not just how roofs fail in general. And a referral-based reputation means the people who know us best trust us enough to send us to the people they care about. That’s the credential we’re proudest of.
Rooted in Burbank
We work in Burbank every week. We know the difference between a roof in the flatlands near the airport and a roof in the hills above Bel Aire Drive, where the wind hits differently. We’ve driven past the Warner Bros. lot a hundred times with a ladder on the rack. When we say we know local roofs, we mean we know the houses on your street, the ones that were built in the 1940s and the ones that went up last year. This isn’t a territory to us. It’s home.
Written by the Owner at Marquis Roof Repair, serving Burbank and the surrounding communities since 2014.