Shingle Roofing
Architectural shingle installed to Florida wind code, with the ventilation and nailing detail that decides how long it lasts here.
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Most homeowners do not decide to replace a roof; the roof decides for them. A third leak in a different spot, an insurer asking for the roof’s age before renewing, a home inspector’s report during a sale, or a shingle that simply gave up early under Orlando sun. Our job on this page is to show you how that decision actually gets made and what the day itself looks like, so nothing about it is a surprise when the trailer pulls up.
We replace architectural shingle, standing seam and panel metal, and concrete or clay tile roofs on houses in Orlando, Winter Park, Kissimmee, Altamonte Springs and the surrounding communities. Every replacement starts with the same thing: a walk on the roof and a look in the attic, photographed, followed by a written scope with real line items. If what we find is a roof with years left in it, the scope says repair instead, and we mean it.
How you know it is time
Age comes first, but age in Central Florida is not the number on the shingle bundle. UV, daily summer downpours and heat cycling wear a roof here faster than the same product in a milder climate, so a roof that should be mid-life can be near the end of it. The physical signs are consistent: granules washing out at the downspout outlets and collecting along the eave, shingles cupping or losing their edges, tile underlayment showing at the eaves, fasteners backing out of a metal panel.
The other signals are external. Florida carriers ask for roof age and condition at renewal and increasingly decline to write older roofs; a buyer’s home inspector will flag a roof near end of life; and a second or third leak in a different location on the same roof means the field is failing, not one detail. One leak is usually a repair. Leaks appearing in new places every season are a replacement conversation.
What replacement day actually looks like
- Tarps go down over landscaping, the pool enclosure and the driveway before the first shingle comes off
- Full tear-off to bare deck — we do not lay new roofing over old
- Deck inspection: soft, delaminated or rotted plywood gets cut out and replaced, and the deck nailing is brought up to current code
- Underlayment and a secondary water barrier over the whole deck, so the house is watertight before the covering goes on
- New drip edge at eaves and rakes, new pipe boots, new flashing at walls, chimneys and skylights
- Dry-in completed the same day so the house never sits open overnight
The covering itself goes on next: shingle in a day or two on a typical house, metal and tile longer. At the end of every day the crew runs a magnet across the lawn and driveway for nails, and the debris goes into a covered trailer or a dumpster we placed with you, not onto the grass.
Permits and the inspections that come with them
A residential re-roof in Florida is permitted work, and we pull the permit under our license (CCC1330329) rather than asking you to. Two inspections usually follow. The first happens after tear-off and dry-in, before the covering is installed: the inspector checks the deck attachment, the underlayment and how the whole assembly is fastened against wind uplift. That is the point where an unpermitted job cuts corners, because nobody is looking. The final inspection closes the permit once the roof is finished.
Those records matter later. A permitted, inspected roof with a closed-out final is what a buyer’s attorney, an insurer’s underwriter or a wind mitigation inspector wants to see. An unpermitted re-roof turns up on a title search at exactly the wrong time and can cost you the very insurance credit the new roof should have earned.
Shingle, metal or tile
The right covering depends on the house, the neighborhood and how long you intend to stay. Architectural shingle is the default on most Central Florida homes: fastest to install, the widest color range, and straightforward to repair. Standing seam or panel metal costs more up front, sheds heat and wind better than anything else on this list, and tends to be the choice for owners who plan to stay put. Concrete and clay tile is heavier, needs a structure rated for it, and is required by some HOAs and expected in some neighborhoods.
What we will not do is steer you toward the most expensive option. The written scope shows each covering that makes sense for your roof as its own line-item path, with what changes structurally, what the HOA has to approve and what the maintenance picture looks like over time.
What happens to your yard, your attic and your week
A roof replacement is loud, dusty and disruptive for a few days, and it is fair to know exactly how. Tear-off shakes the house; things fall off attic shelves and dust sifts through can lights and attic hatches, so cover what is stored up there and take pictures off the walls under the roof. Vehicles come out of the garage before the crew arrives so they are not trapped behind a debris trailer. Pets do better away from the house on tear-off day.
Outside, we tarp the beds and pool screen, stage material where it does not crush the lawn, and run the nail magnet before we leave each day rather than only at the end. If something gets damaged we photograph it, tell you, and fix it. Once the final inspection passes you get the closed permit, the manufacturer warranty paperwork where the system carries one, and the photo record of the deck before it was covered.
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Roof Repair
Leak repairs on house roofs: valleys, pipe boots, flashing, slipped tiles and loose fasteners, traced from the attic and photographed.
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Roof Inspection
A roof and attic inspection with a photo report and written findings, for a sale, a renewal, a claim or peace of mind after a storm.
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Storm Damage
Wind and hail damage documented properly, with support through the insurance claim.
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Not overnight. Tear-off and dry-in happen on the same day on a house-sized roof: whatever section gets stripped in the morning is decked, repaired and covered with underlayment before the crew leaves. If a summer storm rolls in mid-afternoon, which it does, the exposed area gets tarped immediately and the dry-in finishes when it passes. The covering can wait a day; the bare deck cannot sit open.
On an older roof, usually some. Plywood around old leaks, at eaves where water backed up, and under bathroom exhaust vents is where we find it. The scope carries a per-sheet line for deck replacement so the cost of it is known before we start rather than argued about mid-job, and we photograph every sheet we replace so you can see why it came out.
Yes, most people do. It is loud, and the vibration of tear-off is more than people expect, so anyone working from home may want a different room or a different day. Water and power are unaffected. The main practical requests are to keep cars out of the garage, keep pets inside or away, and clear the attic of anything fragile before the first morning.
Often, but through a specific route. Carriers price on roof age, covering type and the wind mitigation features a new roof adds — a sealed deck, proper attachment and current-code fastening. After the final inspection, a wind mitigation report documents those features for your carrier. We cannot promise a number; we can build the roof so the report has good things to say about it.
Probably not, and we will say so. A single leak on a roof with life left in it is a repair: a boot, a flashing detail, a valley. Replacement earns its keep when leaks keep appearing in different places, when the shingle field has lost its granules broadly, or when the deck is failing under an old covering. Our inspection tells you which case you are in, with photographs of the reasons.
We supply what the HOA needs — product data, color samples, a description of the work — and you submit it, because the application has to come from the owner. Many Orlando-area associations want to sign off on covering type and color before a permit is pulled, and some require tile or forbid certain metal profiles. Ask early; a rejected color after material is ordered costs everyone time. Call (407) 871-6159 if you are unsure what your board will want.