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.
Metal roofing
Metal panels, and the flashings salt air hits first
Metal is a full roof on some houses and on many warehouses, and it is the flashing on almost every roof in Miami-Dade. Elite Roofing Company of Miami LLC works on both. Salt air near the ocean rusts ordinary steel. Inland, loose fasteners and dried sealant are the usual story.
Miami
Request a call. Four steps. We call back between 8 AM and 8 PM from the Miami office.
Two different metal jobs
A metal roof is panels: corrugated screw-down, or a standing seam, over underlayment and a deck or purlins. Water should run on the panel and off the eave. Leaks start at screws, at end laps, at skylights, and where a panel was cut around a vent. A screw that backed out is a hole. A screw that was driven through a low point of the corrugation is a hole that was built in.
A metal flashing is the other job, and it is more common. Drip edge, step flashing, headwall flashing, valley metal, and counterflashing in a wall are what join tile or shingles to the rest of the house. On a tile roof these pieces fail first. Owners see a stain and blame the tile. The tile is often fine.
Salt air on Miami Beach, the bay islands, Aventura's waterfront, and Fort Lauderdale's coast attacks steel. Stainless or aluminum details last longer in that air. Inland Miami-Dade and western Broward do not need a marine story. They need fasteners that stay tight and sealant that has not turned to dust.
Paint on a metal roof is not the waterproofing. A faded panel can be tight. A shiny panel with a lap full of old mastic can leak. The visit reads the laps and the fasteners, not the color.
A metal roof can be the whole house
Panels, porches, and the flashings where a wall interrupts the slope are one system.
Noise, heat, and hurricanes
Rain on metal is louder than rain on tile if the assembly has no deck and no insulation. Most house metal roofs are over a deck, and the sound is ordinary rain. The visit can say which assembly you have before anyone promises a quiet room.
Metal reflects some sun and it also moves with heat. Panels expand. Fasteners and clips have to allow that movement or the panel tears at the screw. That is a Florida fact, visible as elongated holes around old screws.
In a high-velocity hurricane zone the edge of a metal roof is a sail if the eave is open. Attachment at the perimeter is part of a new metal roof, reviewed with the permit. Call (305) 701-4572 from 8 AM to 8 PM. The office is 2341 NW 34th St, Miami, FL 33142.
How a visit works
Metal visits follow the five steps. Say whether you mean a metal roof or a metal flashing on a tile roof.
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 repair screw-down panels?
Yes. Backed-out screws, tired washers, and open laps are typical repairs when the panel itself can stay.
Is metal a good idea next to the ocean?
The metal has to be a kind that tolerates salt, and the fasteners have to match. Ordinary steel flashings rust on the beach. The visit names what is up there now.
Can you flash a tile roof without replacing the tile?
Often, yes. The tiles around the wall come up, the flashing is replaced, and the tiles go back.
What about a metal roof over an old shingle roof?
That is a deck and a code conversation. The visit looks at what is underneath before anyone stacks a new roof on an old one.