Roofing around Orlando
About thirty minutes out of Orlando in each direction: Winter Park and Oviedo to the north and east, Kissimmee and Lake Nona to the south, Winter Garden to the west. One crew and one truck sets the radius.
Towns we work in
Where we work around Orlando
If you’re a little outside this list, call anyway. The line is an honest estimate of how far one crew can stretch without the next job suffering.
- Orlando
- Winter Park
- Maitland
- Oviedo
- Winter Springs
- Altamonte Springs
- Longwood
- Ocoee
- Winter Garden
- Windermere
- Lake Nona
- Kissimmee
- St. Cloud
Roofs around here
What’s different about roofs in Central Florida
The sun
The rubber and plastic parts fail first: pipe boots, vent housings, sealant. Often a fifteen-year-old roof needs a few hundred dollars of parts and nothing else.
The attic
Hot, damp attics with ducts and a bathroom fan venting into the insulation age a roof from underneath.
The storms
Afternoon storms June through September mean we work in sections and dry in the same day. A named storm in the forecast stops tear-offs.
The details
More about roofs around here
What is different about roofs around here
Two things dominate. The first is ultraviolet: a roof in central Florida spends its life being cooked, and the components that fail first are the rubber and plastic ones, not the shingle. Pipe boots, pipe collars, plastic vent housings and the sealant round a skylight all give up years before the mat does. That is why a fifteen-year-old roof here so often needs three hundred dollars of parts and nothing else.
The second is the attic. Blocks and slabs with vented attics, ducts run through them, and a bathroom fan that somebody terminated into the insulation instead of through the roof. You get a hot, damp attic, rusty nail points, a deck that never dries out and shingles aging from below. Half the ventilation work we do is really the tail end of somebody else's fan installation.
And then the weather. Afternoon storms from June through September mean we work in sections and dry in the same day, and a named storm in the forecast stops tear-offs entirely. Nobody opens a roof on a Tuesday when the cone moves on a Wednesday.
Older neighborhoods, older decks
A good deal of Orlando and Winter Park housing stock predates the fastening rules everybody now takes for granted. On those roofs the deck re-nail is not a formality; it is often the most valuable thing that happens all week, and it is only possible with the shingles off. That is one more reason the overlay conversation ends the way it does.
Coverage
BaseOrlando, FL 32801RadiusAbout 30 minutesCountiesOrange, Seminole, OsceolaCrewsOneStorm seasonTear-offs stop when a cone is up
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