Call the office
The desk is open every day from 8 AM to 8 PM at (305) 701-4572. Say where the building is and what the roof is doing.
Residential roofing
House roofs, from barrel tile to the back addition
Most Miami-Dade houses wear clay or concrete tile. Others wear asphalt shingles, and some wear metal. Elite Roofing Company of Miami LLC repairs and replaces those roofs, including the flashings, valleys, and boots a street photo never shows.
Miami
Request a call. Four steps. We call back between 8 AM and 8 PM from the Miami office.
How a South Florida house roof is built
Tile is the picture of the county: barrel or flat concrete tile over underlayment, on a wood deck, with a metal drip edge and a ridge that has to stay put in a hurricane. The tile takes the sun and sheds most of the water. The underlayment takes the water that gets through a crack. A house can look perfect from the sidewalk and still have a brittle sheet underneath.
Shingles show up in newer subdivisions and on some additions. Heat is their enemy. Granules wear, tabs curl, and pipe boots crack. A shingle roof in Kendall or Weston lives a different life from a shingle roof in a mild climate, even when the brand name on the wrapper is the same.
Metal on a house may be a full standing-seam or screw-down roof, or it may be the flashing only. Near the beach and the bay, salt air eats ordinary steel fasteners and the drip edge. Inland, metal fails from loose screws and from sealant that dried out, more than from salt.
Additions, porches, and garages are where two roofs meet. The intersection needs step flashing or a curb, not a smear of coating. Many stains that owners blame on the main tile are born at that joint.
Tile over a house, with the details at the edge
The barrels are the surface. The leak is often a valley, a boot, or the sheet underneath.
Neighborhoods change the details, not the phone number
A Coral Gables tile roof, a Hialeah house, a Pinecrest lot under oaks, and a Miami Beach house a block off the sand are all residential roofs. Salt is part of the beach and bay story. Leaves, valleys, and heat are part of the inland story. The office that answers is the same: 2341 NW 34th St, Miami, FL 33142, daily 8 AM to 8 PM.
Tell the office the material and the symptom. A stain after rain, a tile on the lawn, granules in the gutter, or a rust line at the eave are all useful. Photos from the yard help. You do not need to know the product name.
The visit says whether the house needs a repair at one opening or a new roof. You decide after you hear it. Permits for a new house roof in Miami-Dade go through the building department, and the hurricane-zone attachment is part of that permit.
How a visit works
House visits follow the five steps. The roofer looks from safe places and describes the material, the flashing, and the opening.
A visit in those hours
A roofer looks at the slopes, the edges, the penetrations, and the drains from the places that are safe to walk.
A plain description
You hear what is visible: the material, the flashing, and any opening the rain is using. The notes stay in ordinary language.
Repair or a new roof
Repair stays in the conversation when the rest of the roof can remain. A new roof is the conversation when the deck, the underlayment, or the field of the roof is worn through.
Insurance stays with you
If you want a claim, you call your insurer. The visit describes the roof. The insurer decides the claim.
Questions about this work
Do you work on tile houses?
Yes. Tile is the common house roof in Miami-Dade, and the underlayment is part of every tile repair.
What about a shingle addition on a tile house?
The joint between them is a flashing job. The visit treats the two roofs as two roofs that have to meet.
Is salt air a house problem inland?
Much less than on Miami Beach. Inland houses are a heat, rain, and wind story. Bayfront lots are in between.
How do I schedule?
Call (305) 701-4572 from 8 AM to 8 PM and say the city and the roof type.