Cross Bay Roofing

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.

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 Two slopes drain through one line, every afternoon Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — the metal salt air finds long before the shingle Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — where the Florida room ties in

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — a wall, a chimney, a vent, another roof plane, or the open edge at the eave. That is why the first useful question about any leak is not what the shingles look like, but what is nearby.

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 half the roofs are tile.