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.
Commercial roofing
Flat roofs, drains, and the buildings that use them
Warehouses, offices, shopping rows, and many mixed-use buildings in Miami-Dade wear low-slope roofs. Water has to be led to a drain. Elite Roofing Company of Miami LLC repairs and replaces those roofs, and the metal roofs on the same kinds of buildings.
Miami
Request a call. Four steps. We call back between 8 AM and 8 PM from the Miami office.
Low-slope roofs fail at water that cannot leave
A house roof sheds because it is steep. A commercial roof sheds because it is shaped toward a drain, a scupper, or a gutter. When the bowl clogs, the water stays. It finds a seam, a pitch pan, or a fastener, and it shows up over a store or a back room. Ponding after a storm is a maintenance fact and a design fact.
Membranes, modified bitumen, and coatings each have their own seams. The visit names what is on the building instead of treating every flat roof as the same product. Flashings at parapet walls and at equipment curbs are where most commercial leaks start. A new air conditioner set on an old curb is a classic opening.
Metal on a warehouse is a different commercial roof: screw-down panels, laps, and skylights. Screws back out. Skylight curbs crack. In western Miami-Dade, on open lots in Doral and near the airport, wind has a long run at those panels. The hurricane-zone attachment still applies.
Access is half the job. A shopping row may need work before the store opens. A warehouse may need a clear aisle under the leak. A tower roof needs the building's permission, a path past equipment, and a plan for how materials go up. Say which building you are when you call.
Low buildings, large roofs
The roof area on a commercial block is the part nobody photographs, and it is the part that ponds.
Owners, tenants, and boards
Commercial calls come from owners, property managers, and sometimes tenants who just know the ceiling is wet. The office asks who can approve the work. A description can be written so a manager can send it on. The leak does not care about the org chart, but the schedule does.
The only company address is 2341 NW 34th St, Miami, FL 33142. There is not a separate commercial desk. The same phone, (305) 701-4572, answers from 8 AM to 8 PM every day. Say commercial, say the city, and say whether water is active.
A repair patches the opening and the flashing around it when the field of the membrane can stay. A replacement is the conversation when the field is cracked, the insulation is wet, or the drains were never given a slope they can use. The visit says which.
How a visit works
Commercial visits use the same five steps. Bring the building name and a person who can open the roof hatch.
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 warehouses and offices?
Yes. Flat roofs and metal roofs on commercial buildings are part of the work, along with houses.
What if the tenant is the one calling?
Call anyway. The office will ask who owns the roof and who can approve a repair. A description can start with the tenant's photos.
Are high-rise roofs included?
Many high-rises have flat roofs. Access belongs to the building. Call during open hours and name the tower.
Do you handle the drains?
The visit looks at drains, scuppers, and ponding. A clogged drain is sometimes the whole repair.