How Tilehurst Roofing Orange County Came to Orange County
We did not have to look far to see why this market needed a different kind of roofing company. Before our Orange County office opened, our team spent months listening to homeowners here describe the same frustrations, again and again. A roofer quotes one number over the phone. A different number appears on the contract. The crew shows up three days late, or not at all. The repair holds for one winter, then leaks in the first hard rain.
Greg Holloway had seen the same pattern play out in other cities, and he knew the fix was not complicated. It was discipline. Write the price down before the work starts. Show up in the window we gave. Leave the driveway cleaner than we found it. Put the guarantee in writing. And if the repair fails inside the guarantee period, come back and fix it at no charge. That is the Kingswell Way, and that is the standard we brought to Orange County.
We opened our Orange County branch because homeowners here deserved a roofer who followed those rules without being asked. The houses are different here than in the desert or the mountains. Salt air, canyon winds, tile roofs built for a specific era of construction. The problems are specific, and the solutions should be too. Our promise from the first day was simple: give Orange County homeowners a roofer who treats the job like it is being done on our own house.
Greg Holloway’s Personal Connection to the Roofing Trade
Greg got into roofing the way a lot of people get into honest trades: he started at the bottom, carrying bundles, and stayed because the work made sense to him in a way office work never did. Early on, he worked under a tradesman who would not let a single shingle line go crooked. That man used to say that the roof is the one part of the house you don’t get to see, which means you have to do it right because nobody will know until it fails. Greg never forgot that.
There is a rhythm to roofing that gets into your bones after enough years. The sound of a nail gun echoing off a tile roof in the morning quiet of Irvine. The smell of asphalt and cedar on a hot Laguna Hills afternoon. The way the sun bakes the back of your neck in July, and the way the marine layer sits low over Mission Viejo in June while you’re working at the ridge. Greg still walks every roof he can, not because he has to, but because being up there is where the work makes the most sense.
What keeps him in it, after all these years, is the moment after the last tile is set and the cleanup is done. The homeowner walks the property, looks up, and exhales. That relief is real. It’s the sound of someone who has been burned before, who braced for another disappointment, and instead got a roof that was done once and done right. You cannot measure that feeling in a review or a referral. It’s the reason Greg is still climbing ladders.
If he weren’t roofing, Greg thinks he might be restoring old trucks or working with his hands in some other way. But roofing is where he landed, and roofing is where he stays, because the visible difference between a good roofer and a careless one is enormous, and every Orange County homeowner deserves the good kind.
Meet Greg Holloway – The Person Behind Every Job
Greg Holloway owns and leads Tilehurst Roofing Orange County. He came up through the trade the long way, carrying shingles and hauling materials before he ever ran a crew. He has worked on every roof system this region throws at a roofer: concrete tile, clay tile, asphalt shingle, torch-down and built-up commercial roofing. He knows what Anaheim attics smell like in August and what San Juan Capistrano sea air does to flashing over time.
What separates Greg from a technician dispatched out of a regional office is attention. He has walked enough bad roofs in Orange County to know that half of roofing is looking, really looking, at the transitions, valleys, chimneys and edges where failures begin. When Greg commits to a job, he commits personally. The name on the truck means something to him, and so does the family under the roof.
Our Promise to Orange County Homeowners
Every Tilehurst Roofing Orange County job works to the same four promises set by the Kingswell family, the people behind the Tilehurst Roofing name.
- Say the price before the work. You receive a written price before any work begins. No calling back to say it went up. The number on the estimate is the number we work to.
- Show up in the window we gave. We give you a real arrival window, and we keep it. If something breaks, we call before the window closes.
- Leave the place cleaner than we found it. Roofing is messy work. A magnet sweep for nails, a thorough cleanup, and respect for your plants and driveway are not optional. They’re the standard.
- Put the guarantee in writing, and come back if it fails. Every job is covered by The Kingswell Guarantee. If a repair fails inside the guarantee period, we return and fix it at no charge. That promise is written down, not implied.
These are the rules we agreed to when we became a Tilehurst Roofing location. We keep them because they match how Greg already worked.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed. Every professional working under the Tilehurst Roofing Orange County name is required to hold the license their state requires for the work they perform. You should never hire a roofer who cannot prove this. It protects you if something goes wrong.
- Insured and bonded. Roofing carries real risk, to our crew and to your property. Insurance and bonding mean you are not left holding the cost of an accident. No homeowner should let an uninsured roofer on their property, full stop.
- Years of local roofing experience. Greg Holloway has spent his career in this trade and knows the roof systems, weather patterns and building styles specific to Orange County. That local experience shows up in the diagnosis, the estimate and the finished roof.
- A strong local reputation. We have built trust with Orange County homeowners one roof at a time. Our work is our reference, and we are happy to walk you through what we have done and why we did it that way.
Credentials matter because roofing is one of the few trades where the failure is invisible for months or even years. By the time you see a stain on the ceiling, the damage is already done. Hiring a licensed, insured, local roofer who stands behind the work is the only way to protect your home and your budget.
Rooted in Orange County
Orange County is not a marketing territory to us. It is where our crews drive every morning, where our customers raise their kids, and where our work sits under the sun and the salt air every day. We know the tile streets of Yorba Linda and the older neighborhoods of Fullerton. We know how the wind moves through Rancho Santa Margarita in the fall. That knowledge shapes every estimate we write, because a roof in Lake Forest does not age the same way as a roof in Fountain Valley, and a roofer who pretends otherwise is guessing. We don’t guess. We look, we measure, and we tell you the truth.
Why “Tilehurst”?
The name comes from an English village, but the first syllable is the part that matters to us. Tile. The oldest way to keep weather out. Tilehurst Roofing was founded by the Kingswell family with a simple mission: roofs done once, and done right. Our Orange County branch is independently owned and operated, and we agreed to work to the Kingswell Guarantee. That connection gives our customers the best of both worlds: a local team that knows this market and a brand standard that has been tested roof by roof.
Talk to Greg and the Team
If you have been let down by a roofer before, you are exactly the homeowner we built this company to serve. Call us at (559) 295-5445 to schedule a free estimate. Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and Sunday from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, our coordinator will answer, take your details and connect you with Greg and the local team. You will get a written line-item price before any work starts. That is the way we do things, and it is the way we will always do them.
Written by Greg Holloway, Owner at Tilehurst Roofing Orange County, serving Orange County since 2000.