FAQ
Florida Keys Roofing Questions
The questions that actually decide a roofing job in Monroe County, answered plainly.
Give us the mile marker, tell us what is on the roof now, and say whether the property is rented out. Those three shape the job.
FAQ
Questions we are asked most
- Should I fit metal or shingle?
- Ask for both to be priced. Metal suits the uplift, the salt and the dead load here, and shingle can still be right on a short holding period or a tight budget. If metal was not quoted at all, the useful question is why not.
- Does the roofing material decide performance?
- Less than the fastening does. Uplift acts on a chain from covering to deck to framing to walls, and the assembly is only as good as its weakest connection. That is why deck re-fastening during a re-roof matters so much here.
- What is deck re-fastening and do I need it?
- Re-fixing the deck to the framing to a current schedule while the covering is off. It is the cheapest moment it will ever be done, and in the county with Florida's highest design pressures it is one of the better things to spend money on.
- Why are two quotes so far apart?
- Deck re-fastening and its schedule, the underlayment named, the deck replacement allowance, and how tear-off is being removed. Put those to both contractors and the gap usually explains itself.
- Why does disposal cost so much here?
- The old roof has to travel the whole chain to leave, and roofing is the heaviest trade there is. On the mainland that is a short haul; here it is a real line item, and a quote silent about it has left something out.
- My tiles look perfect but water is coming in. How?
- Tile is a rain screen and is expected to let some water past. The underlayment beneath is the waterproofing and ages far faster than the tile does. It is the normal pattern rather than a puzzle.
- My property is a rental. Can you work around bookings?
- Small repairs usually. A full re-roof needs a continuous block, and we would rather give you an honest duration so you close the calendar once instead of twice.
- How do I check a roofing contractor here?
- Get the license details and verify them with the state yourself rather than accepting a document, and ask how long they have worked in this county. Do it on every quote, ours included.
Still not answered?
If your question is not here, call (954) 807-3208. We would rather answer it before you have signed something.
Roofs we work on
Metal Roofs
Metal leads this list because in Monroe County it is the ordinary choice rather than the expensive one. What separates a twenty-five year metal roof from a twelve year one is almost never the panel.
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Flat & Low Slope
A great deal of Keys building stock is concrete with a flat or very low slope roof. Those roofs fail at drainage and at edges rather than across the field, and coating is the answer offered far more often than it is the right one.
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Tile Roofs
Tile appears throughout the Keys and it asks more of a building here than it does further north. Fastening is the whole conversation, and the underlayment beneath decides when the roof needs doing.
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Shingle Roofs
Shingle exists throughout the Keys and it works when it is chosen and installed deliberately. In the county with Florida's highest design wind speeds, it is the specification that ought to be explained rather than assumed.
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Leak Diagnosis
Water enters at one point and appears somewhere else. On the concrete and parapet buildings common here it can travel a long way inside a wall before anybody sees anything.
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Deck, Fastening & Uplift
The covering takes the sun and the rain. The fastening underneath is what keeps the roof on the building, and in the county with the highest design pressures in Florida that is where the job is won or lost.
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Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.