Southwest Florida specifics
Five Things That Are Different Here
The repair rule, the post-storm contractor market, insurance documentation, Gulf exposure, and how we work at this distance.
What you have noticed, the roof type and roughly its age. We will tell you honestly whether it is a repair or a replacement.
Repair
Partial repair is more often permitted than homeowners think
Tile
A tile roof is a different repair problem from shingle
Documented
Photographs and reports your insurer can actually use
Licensed
General contractor, licensed in the state of Florida
5 southwest florida specifics
General information. Your building department and insurer determine what applies to you.
The Repair Rule
Florida amended its roof repair provisions in 2022. For roofs built to a sufficiently recent code edition, repairing part of a roof may no longer require replacing all of it.
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The Post-Storm Market
Major storms bring genuine capacity into a region and they also bring operators who leave once the work dries up.
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Insurance Documentation
What a homeowner can demonstrate matters as much as what happened, and the documentation is created at the assessment rather than afterwards.
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Gulf Exposure
The Gulf coast has its own exposure profile, and roofs here weather differently from those on the Atlantic side of the state.
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How We Work Here
We are based on the other coast, licensed in the state of Florida, and we work here on scheduled projects.
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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.