Roofing Contractor in Orlando, FL

Orlando is where we are based, and it has the widest spread of housing ages of anywhere we work. A bungalow near Lake Eola might be a century old. A house in Lake Nona might be younger than the truck parked outside it. Those two roofs fail in completely different ways, and they do not get inspected the same way either.

Orlando Roof Co. is licensed in Florida under CCC1336601, fully insured, and open seven days from 7am to 7pm. Being based in the city means an Orlando inspection is usually the same day or the next one. Call 407-600-4137.

Roof age is the first question in Orlando

In the older inner neighborhoods the common problems are layered roofs, undersized or brittle decking, and flashing details that were done to a standard nobody uses now. Those roofs often cannot simply be overlaid. Once the old material comes off, the deck usually needs work before anything new goes down.

Post-war ranch homes across the middle of the city are mostly on their second or third roof. The failures there tend to be at penetrations, around older plumbing boots and at the junctions where additions were tied into the original structure.

The newest builds on the south and east sides have a different problem entirely. They are built to current code, which is good, but the rooflines are complicated. Lots of valleys, dormers, and penetrations means lots of places for water to find a way in, and a new roof is not automatically a watertight one if the detailing was rushed.

Tree cover cuts both ways

Mature oaks and camphors shade a lot of Orlando streets. Shade keeps a roof cooler and slows UV damage, which helps. It also keeps the north slope damp, encourages algae and moss, and drops limbs and leaf litter into valleys and gutters where it holds water against the roof.

If you have heavy tree cover, the gutters and the valleys are worth looking at more often than the field of the roof itself.

What a replacement involves

A full replacement means tearing off to bare wood, re-nailing the deck to current fastening requirements, and installing the underlayment the code calls for now rather than what was acceptable when the house was built. Permits go through the local building department and inspections happen at set stages.

There is also a threshold rule worth knowing about. If enough of a roof is repaired inside a twelve-month window, the whole system has to be brought up to current code instead of patched. The percentage and the exemptions have moved around in recent years, so ask before authorizing a large repair.

Common questions about roofing in Orlando