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.
Flat roofing
A flat roof works only if the water can leave
Low-slope roofs cover warehouses, condos, and a lot of Miami buildings that look like walls from the sidewalk. Elite Roofing Company of Miami LLC repairs and replaces them. The question on every visit is where the water goes after it lands.
Miami
Request a call. Four steps. We call back between 8 AM and 8 PM from the Miami office.
Drains, seams, and parapets
Flat is a nickname. A sound low-slope roof has slope, even if you cannot see it from the street. Water should reach a drain, a scupper, or a gutter within a short time after the rain stops. A pond that is still there the next morning is sitting on a seam. Miami-Dade afternoon storms make that pond a weekly test all summer.
Seams fail when the material shrinks, when a patch from an old visit lifts, or when someone walks the same line every month to service equipment. The leak underneath can travel sideways inside the insulation and drop into a room that is not under the seam. Finding it means reading the roof, not only the stain.
Parapet walls hide the roof and they also create the corner where water and wind meet. Coping metal, the reglet in the wall, and the cant where the roof turns up are the details. A beautiful Art Deco front on Miami Beach can have a tired coping ten feet back from the facade. The stain shows up in a unit, not on the ornament.
Equipment curbs, pitch pans around pipes, and old rails are the other openings. A new condenser set on a soft patch is a leak that arrives with the equipment. The visit looks at every curb, not only the one over the drip.
The roof is behind the parapet
From the sidewalk you see the wall. The drains and the coping are the roof.
Repair the opening, or replace the field
A repair opens the failed seam or flashing and rebuilds that detail when the rest of the membrane is still elastic and still bonded. Coating over a wet roof traps the water. The visit says whether the insulation is wet before anyone talks about a coating.
A replacement removes the old system or, when the deck and the code allow, goes over a dry, sound deck with a system that gives the water a path. Drains get rebuilt, not painted. Crickets go in behind curbs so water does not sit in the shadow of a unit.
Call (305) 701-4572 from 8 AM to 8 PM. Say flat roof, say the city, and say if water is coming in now. The office is 2341 NW 34th St, Miami, FL 33142. High-rise access and warehouse access are both arranged on that call.
How a visit works
Flat-roof visits follow the five steps. Ponding, open seams, and the drain bowls are the first things named in the notes.
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
Why does a flat roof leak when it looks new?
A clogged drain or a fresh patch over a wet spot will leak under a new-looking surface. The water has to leave, and the layer has to be dry when it is closed.
Do condo roofs count as flat roofs?
Many of them are. The association controls access. Call and name the building.
Is a coating a new roof?
A coating is a surfacing. It belongs on a dry roof that already drains. It is not a fix for wet insulation or a missing slope.
How fast should a roof drain?
Water from a normal afternoon should be on its way to the drain the same day. A pond the next morning is a problem to write down.