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.
Roof replacement
A new roof when the old one is worn through
Replacement is the conversation when the deck, the underlayment, or the field of the roof can no longer be repaired in pieces. In Miami-Dade and Broward a new roof is built for a high-velocity hurricane zone. The office is at 2341 NW 34th St.
Miami
Request a call. Four steps. We call back between 8 AM and 8 PM from the Miami office.
What actually gets replaced
People say 'new roof' and picture the tile or the shingles. Those are the surface. Under them, a replacement peels back to the deck, replaces rotten wood, lays a new underlayment, and fastens the new surface to the standard the county expects. The edge metal, the ridge, the valleys, and the flashings at walls and pipes are part of that roof, not extras.
Tile replacements in Miami-Dade fail or succeed at the underlayment and the fasteners. Clay and concrete tile last a long time in the sun. The felt or the synthetic sheet under them does not. When that sheet is cracked, every heavy rain has a way in, no matter how even the barrels look from the yard.
Shingle replacements have to respect the heat. Asphalt softens on a Miami afternoon and ages from the sun. A new shingle roof needs intake and a ridge that can breathe, flashings that are new rather than painted, and nails that hold when the wind gets under the first course.
A flat replacement is a different drawing. Water must reach a drain. The new membrane, the crickets around curbs, the metal at the parapet, and the drain bowls are the roof. A pretty cap sheet over a blocked drain is a pond with a fresh color.
The surface is only the part the street sees
Barrel tile over a sound underlayment is the house roof most of Miami-Dade already knows.
Permits, wind, and the order of work
A replacement in Miami-Dade or Broward goes through the building department. The county sits in a high-velocity hurricane zone, so the attachment of the roof is part of the permit, not a style choice. This office describes the roof in plain language and pulls the permit the job requires. The city reviews the drawings.
The order on a house is usually protect the walls and plants, strip the old surface, repair the deck, dry in the same day when weather allows, then load the new material and finish edges and penetrations. On a condo or a warehouse the order adds the building's access rules: a crane, a service elevator, a board that wants the scope before anyone is on the roof.
Insurance money, if you are using it, stays between you and your insurer. The roofing company can describe the roof and do the work you approve. The price of a specific roof is said on that visit, for that building, after the roof is seen.
How a visit works
The five steps start with a call and end with a decision you make. A replacement is that decision when repair would only chase the next 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 replace tile with tile?
Often, yes. Some owners move from tile to metal or to a shingle. The visit talks through weight, the deck, and how the house is built before anyone picks a surface.
How does the hurricane zone change the job?
Attachments, edges, and underlayment are specified more strictly than in most of Florida. The permit office checks that work. The practical result is a roof that is fastened, not only a roof that looks new.
Can you replace one slope?
Sometimes. If the other slopes are sound and the intersection can be flashed, a partial replacement is a real option. If the underlayment is tired on every slope, one slope only moves the leak.
Where do I start?
Call (305) 701-4572 between 8 AM and 8 PM. Have the address, the material if you know it, and a note about leaks or age.