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Roofing on both sides of Tampa Bay

A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers. Describe the roof and what you are seeing, and you will be pointed to someone who covers your area.

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Ask for a replacement quote, or an inspection if the roof is tile and you do not know what is under it. You will be connected with a provider covering your county.

A roof here rarely fails where you can see it. It fails underneath, and at the metal. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field. The other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1: ridge caps 1 Ridge caps: full sun, no shade, ever Point 2: the field of the roof 2 The field, shingle or tile on felt Point 3: valleys 3 Valleys: one line, every afternoon Point 4: flashing 4 Flashing is what salt finds first Point 5: vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6: eaves and the Florida room 6 Eaves, where the Florida room ties in
  1. 1 Ridge caps. Full sun, no shade, ever. They cook before anything else on the roof does.
  2. 2 The field. Shingle, or tile sitting on felt that is doing the actual waterproofing.
  3. 3 Valleys. Two slopes emptying through one line, every single afternoon.
  4. 4 Flashing. The metal salt air finds long before it touches the covering.
  5. 5 The vent boot. Rubber baked brittle by sun, and the bay area’s most ordinary leak.
  6. 6 Eaves. Where the Florida room ties in, and where the hardware corrodes first.

Worked from above and below

Sun does its damage to the covering while humidity in the attic works on the deck underneath. Most roofs here are losing on both counts at once, which is why the age of the shingle rarely tells the whole story.

The work

Eleven towns, both shores

Eleven towns around Tampa Bay, from the mid-century blocks of Pinellas to the boom-era subdivisions east of the water, on a coast where the sun runs all year and a great many of the roofs are tile.