the Treasure Coast
This Coast Re-Roofed All at Once. Twenty Years Later, That Is Still the Story.
Frances and Jeanne put most of the Treasure Coast under new roofs across 2005 and 2006, and those roofs are reaching the end together. If yours is in that wave it is worth looking at — which is not the same as needing replacing, and we will tell you which.
Tell us the age of the roof and whether anything is actually leaking. Those two answers decide what conversation we are having.
Four places account for most South Florida roof leaks. None of them is the middle of the roof.
2005
A whole region re-roofed in eighteen months, and it is finishing together
No leak
Most people here are replacing a roof that works. We will say so
Our crews
We inspect, we photograph, and our own people do the work
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
Roofs we work on
Roofs we work on
Six kinds of roof. On this coast most of them went on at the same time.
Shingle Roofs
Asphalt shingle is what most of this coast was re-roofed with after 2004, which means a very large number of shingle roofs here started their service lives inside the same eighteen months.
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Tile Roofs
On a tile roof the tile is a rain screen and the underlayment is the waterproofing. Tile outlives underlayment comfortably, so most tile roof work here is really underlayment work.
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Metal Roofs
Metal genuinely lasts on this coast when it is specified and detailed properly. What decides that is rarely the panel. It is the fastener system, the coating and what happens at every edge and penetration.
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Flat & Low Slope
Flat and low slope sections on this coast are very often over an addition, a Florida room or a carport enclosure. They fail differently from the main roof and they usually fail first.
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Leak Diagnosis
Water gets in at one place and appears somewhere else entirely. Diagnosing that properly is the whole job, and it is the part most often skipped in favor of sealing whatever is nearest.
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Deck & Underlayment
The visible roof covering gets all the attention. The deck it is fastened to and the underlayment over that are what decide whether the roof stays on and whether water gets in once it does not.
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Treasure Coast specifics
What is different here
This coast re-roofed all at once. Twenty years later that is still the story.
The 2005 Cohort
Frances and Jeanne put most of this coast under new roofs across 2005 and 2006. Those roofs did not age independently, and they are not going to finish independently either.
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A Roof That Does Not Leak
The usual trigger for a roof replacement on this coast is not water in the house. It is a letter about the age of the roof, which is a genuinely uncomfortable position to be put in.
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Where Roofs Fail
Uplift starts at perimeters and corners. Water gets in at penetrations and flashings. The large open field of the roof, which is what a quote is usually priced by, is the part least likely to be the problem.
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The Two Inspections
These are two different documents produced by different people for different reasons, and owners conflate them constantly. Knowing which one you have, and which one you need, saves a surprising amount of confusion.
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How We Work Here
We are based in Fort Lauderdale and work up the Treasure Coast in scheduled blocks. On a coast where a replacement wave draws companies in from everywhere, being clear about who we are matters more than usual.
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The difference
Why people call us rather than a company working the wave
An entire region re-roofed inside eighteen months, and the clock ran out together
Frances and Jeanne put most of this coast under new roofs across 2005 and 2006. Those roofs did not age separately. They are reaching the end of their service lives at roughly the same time, which is why your neighbor just did theirs and why quotes and lead times behave the way they do right now.
We will tell you when your roof does not need replacing
A great many people on this coast are being told to replace a roof that is not leaking, because a carrier wrote about its age. Sometimes that is genuinely the right call. Sometimes the roof has years left and a repair, a report and a conversation with the agent is the cheaper answer. We would rather write you the report.
Roofs fail at the edges, not in the middle
Uplift starts at perimeters and corners, and water gets in at penetrations and flashings. A quote priced by the square with nothing said about edge detail, fastening at the perimeter or what happens around every pipe and vent has priced the easy part of the roof.
We inspect, we photograph, and our own crews do the work
You get an inspection, photographs of what we actually found, and a written scope before anyone talks about a number. The people who look at the roof are the people who work on it, which on a coast full of crews passing through is less common than it should be.
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Book an inspection
Tell us roughly how old the roof is and whether anything is actually leaking. Those two answers decide what conversation we are having.
You get the photographs either way.
FAQ
Common questions
- My roof is from 2005. Does it need replacing?
- It needs looking at. Age puts it in the range where an inspection is sensible and it does not settle the question — condition varies substantially between roofs installed in the same month on the same street.
- My insurer raised roof age but I have no leak. What now?
- Get it inspected and photographed so you are having that conversation with facts rather than a proxy. Sometimes a condition report changes the outcome and sometimes it does not, and either way you know what you own. We do not negotiate with carriers.
- Why do two roof quotes differ so much?
- Usually deck re-nailing, the underlayment actually specified, whether a secondary water barrier is included, and the deck replacement allowance. Ask both contractors those four questions and the gap tends to explain itself.
- Are you local?
- No. We are Fort Lauderdale based and work this coast in scheduled blocks. Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor; roofing work is performed under the appropriate trade certification. Ask us for the license details and verify them with the state.
Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.