Roofs we work on
Six Kinds of Roof, and What the Wind Does to Each
Metal, flat and low slope, tile, shingle, leak diagnosis, and the deck and fastening underneath all of it.
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.
Metal
Down here it is the normal answer, not the upsell
Load path
At these wind speeds the covering is not the real question
Out too
The old roof has to travel the whole chain to leave
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
6 roofs we work on
Metal is listed first here on purpose. In this county it is the normal answer.
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.