Tampa Roof Co: Reroofing, Leak Repair & Storm Dry-In
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. The inspection route is settled in writing before we open a single slope.
- ✓Florida certified roofing contractor under Chapter 489
- ✓Inspection route agreed in writing before tear-off
- ✓Unit-priced sheathing, no day-two change orders
- ✓Every bay dried in before the crew leaves
Why Tampa Chooses Tampa Roof Co
- ✓The diagnosis comes before the quote, and it stands on its own whether or not it ends in a replacement.
- ✓If the stain turns out to be a sweating duct or algae streaking, we say so and leave, which costs us a roof sale and saves you one.
- ✓Tile gets relaid over new underlayment wherever the field is still sound, because here the clay almost always outlives what is under it.
- ✓Sheathing is quoted by the sheet before tear-off, so a soft deck on Tampa's older board-decked stock is a number you already approved.
- ✓Emergency dry-in goes on the same afternoon it is called in, because a tarp thrown over a hole at nine the next morning has already missed the storm that mattered.
- ✓No assignment of benefits, no signature on the day of a storm, no claim filed in your name. The policy stays yours, and so does the file of photographs.
How It Works
We Walk It, Including The Attic
Every slope gets walked and the perimeter gets checked by hand, because an unsealed tab does not photograph. Then we go underneath. From the attic you see whether the sheathing is board or panel, where past water dried, and what a replacement price actually depends on. You get the photographs either way.
Scope, Unit Rates, Inspection Route
You receive a scope naming the covering, the fastener schedule, the ventilation change and the flashing details. Sheathing and sub-fascia are quoted as unit rates agreed in advance, because nobody can count them before the tear-off. The inspection route is settled here too, not on the day.
Tear Off In Bays, Dry In The Same Day
We open only what we can close before the crew leaves. Each bay is sized to a day of work, dried in with self-adhered membrane, and left watertight overnight regardless of what the forecast does. If a bay cannot be finished, it does not get started that morning.
Inspection, Cleanup, Closed Permit
The required inspection happens on the schedule we agreed, through the city or through a licensed private provider. We magnet-sweep the property, haul everything the same day, and send you the closed permit record with the photograph file. A permit left open is our problem, not yours.
Our Roofing Services in Tampa, FL
Roof Replacement
A Tampa reroof is bought twice. Once when you pick a covering, and once when you decide who signs off on the work and how fast they can get there.
Roof Leak Repair
Most Tampa leaks are three details, not a roof. A cracked pipe collar, a valley that lost its metal, and a wall flashing someone caulked instead of cutting in.
Storm Damage Restoration
After a named storm the roofs are not the bottleneck. The inspectors are.
Hail Damage Roofing
Here is the unpopular answer. Tampa is a poor hail market, and most of the hail damage sold in this city is not hail damage.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind does not fail a roof in the middle. It fails it at the edges, where the pressure coefficients are highest and where the fasteners are doing the most work per nail.
Roof Inspections
There are two things called a roof inspection in this city and they have nothing to do with each other. One is a code inspection.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Shingles cover most of Tampa, and on most Tampa houses the shingle is the cheap, predictable part of the job. The variable is what is under it.
Metal Roofing
Metal is a good roof in Tampa and a bad schedule. That is the whole trade-off, and it is worth understanding before you sign, because the thing that goes wrong on metal reroofs here is almost never the metal.
Tile Roofing
Tile in Tampa is mostly an underlayment job wearing a tile costume. The tile itself outlives two or three of the membranes beneath it, so a leaking tile roof usually has perfectly serviceable tile sitting on top of a membrane that died years ago.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Almost every old house in Tampa has a low-slope roof attached to it, even if nobody calls it that. The wrapped front porch, the rear addition that used to be a screened room, the flat over a carport.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Here we deliberately argue our own invoice downward. On the right substrate a coating is the correct purchase, it costs a fraction of a tear-off, and it does something no reroof can do: it never opens your deck, so nothing enters an inspection queue.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the item most often added to a Tampa roof quote and most often added wrongly. A ridge vent by itself is not ventilation.
Skylights
Skylights are the one place where this site's whole argument becomes a concrete choice you have to make, so it is worth being precise about it. The question is not whether you want daylight.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit are where a Tampa reroof finds its surprises, and where an honest contractor separates from a cheap one. Both are hidden behind aluminum on most houses, aluminum hides rot beautifully for years, and both matter far more than they look from the street.
Chimney Flashing
Tampa has thousands of chimneys and almost no working fireplaces. They were built for a heating problem this city stopped having decades ago, and what is left is a masonry stack sitting in the middle of a roof plane doing nothing except providing four separate opportunities to leak.
Commercial Roofing
On a commercial building the inspection route becomes a line on the budget. Florida requires the jurisdiction to reduce the permit fee when a private provider does the work, and to drop inspection fees beyond an actual-cost administrative charge.
Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers, not public adjusters and not attorneys, and Florida law keeps those roles separate for good reasons. What we do is produce the evidence, stand on the roof alongside the adjuster, and make certain the written scope matches what the building actually needs.
What Tampa Customers Say
They found soft sub-fascia behind the gutter line during the tear-off and charged the linear-foot rate we had already agreed. No renegotiation, no drama. The roof was watertight the first evening.
Our tile roof was leaking and two other outfits quoted a tear-off. These folks reset the sound tile over fresh underlayment for roughly a third of that, and showed us why.
After the storm they dried us in under permit instead of selling a tarp, and had the inspection handled within two business days. Everyone else quoted three weeks of blue plastic.
Told us our roof had about eight years left and fixed three flashing details instead. Sent the whole photo file anyway. Hard to argue with a company that talks itself out of work.
The call usually comes in around five in the afternoon, an hour after the sea-breeze storm has drifted east and the sun is back out, and it is almost always the same sentence: there is a brown ring on the ceiling that was not there at lunch. Tampa Roof Co takes that call.
We repair and replace roofs across Tampa and out through north Hillsborough and central Pasco, in shingle, tile, metal and low-slope membrane. Storm dry-in, sheathing, ventilation, fascia and soffit, skylights and commercial reroofs all follow from the same first hour on site.
Before anybody quotes you a roof, the stain has to actually be a leak, and in this climate two of the most common ones are not. A supply duct sweating in an attic that sits near the dew point all summer will drip on a bright day and stop when the air handler cycles off.
Black streaking down a shaded slope is algae feeding on the limestone filler in the shingle, which is ugly and is not a failure. We would rather hand you to an air conditioning contractor, or tell you to spend nothing at all, than sell a replacement against either one.
Water in an attic behaves about the way the Hillsborough River does. It goes in somewhere back near Crystal Springs and shows itself miles downstream, so the ring on your ceiling is the mouth and not the source. Direction narrows it down fast.
A stain that only appears in a hard westerly blow is usually wall flashing or a window head rather than the field of the roof, and a stain that shows in every rain is a penetration. It still surprises us how much of that gets settled before a ladder comes off the truck.
Repairs do have a ceiling. Florida's existing-building code limits how much of a roof section can be repaired inside a twelve-month window before the whole section has to come up to current code, and much of Hillsborough sits in the wind-borne debris region, so a reroof comes with a sealed deck and a fastening schedule the old roof never had. Permits go through the City of Tampa's Construction Services Division inside the limits and through the county outside them.
One scheduling note, because people ask. Hurricane season runs June through November and that is when every crew in the county is working against the same calendar. The dry stretch here is roughly January through April, and in our opinion that is the calmer time to buy a roof you already know you need. A leak, obviously, does not wait for a better month.
About Tampa Roof Co in Tampa, FL
Tampa Roof Co is a roofing company that leads with repairs, which is an odd thing to advertise in a trade paid by the square. We replace steep and low-slope roofs too, in shingle, tile, metal and membrane, residential and commercial, from Westchase and Carrollwood out through Northdale to Wesley Chapel. But the phone rings about a stain far more often than it rings about a roof.
We have opinions about two coverings. A tile leak is almost never the tile: the underlayment is the real roof, and it ages out long before clay or concrete does, so relaying a section usually beats tearing off a sound tile field. Exposed-fastener metal that starts weeping after fifteen summers normally wants new neoprene washers, not new panels. Neither of those is the profitable answer, which is more or less the point.
When not to hire us. If the stain dries up whenever the air conditioning is off, that is a duct and a roofer is the wrong trade. If the damage sits under your deductible, do not open a claim over it. If a carrier is circling your roof's age, make it take the inspection Florida allows before you buy anything.
And if somebody knocked on your door the morning after a storm wanting a signature that day, that was not us, and we would not ask you for one.
Recent Projects Across the north Hillsborough and central Pasco corridor
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Where We Work
Tampa Roof Co serves Tampa, FL and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Roofing Across Tampa, North Hillsborough & Central Pasco
We roof and maintain retail strips, medical and professional offices, light industrial buildings and multi-tenant properties from the city core out to Wesley Chapel. Low-slope work is bid in bays sized to a single day of tear-off and dry-in, with the inspection sequenced against the bays rather than the whole roof, so an occupied building keeps trading. Night and weekend labor is priced in from the start.
- ✓Mechanically attached reinforced TPO over high-density cover board
- ✓Two-ply SBS modified bitumen where foot traffic and hot equipment demand it
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate and crickets designed before membrane is ordered
- ✓Fastened, continuously cleated perimeter edge metal to the applicable standard
- ✓Phased tear-off in bays, each one dried in before the crew leaves site
- ✓Private provider inspections arranged in advance under Florida statute 553.791
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance visits with a photographed condition record
- ✓Drain, scupper and penetration service before saturation becomes a capital job
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Florida actually license roofing contractors?
Yes. Chapter 489 puts roofing under the Construction Industry Licensing Board, and a roofing contractor is either state certified or registered. The statute also says a general, building or residential contractor has to subcontract roofing work unless they personally hold the roofing category. Ask for the license number and look it up. It takes a minute and it is the single most useful check you can run.
What is a private provider and why does it keep coming up?
Florida statute 553.791 lets a property owner, or their contractor with written authorization, hire a licensed engineer, architect or certified building code administrator to perform the required building inspections instead of the local building official. Reroofing with no structural alteration is specifically named in the statute as a single-trade inspection. In practice it means your job is not waiting on somebody else's backlog.
Is it more expensive to use a private provider?
You pay the provider, but the statute requires the jurisdiction to reduce the permit fee by what it saves, and it bars the jurisdiction from charging building inspection fees at all beyond an actual-cost administrative charge. On a house the two roughly offset and you are buying schedule. On a commercial building the fee reduction is large enough to matter on its own.
How long will my roof be open?
Hours, not days, on any bay we start. We size each section to what the crew can strip, deck and dry in before they leave, and we do not begin a section we cannot finish. On a typical Tampa house the whole roof is watertight under self-adhered membrane at the end of day one, with the covering going on after that.
My house is from the 1920s. Should I expect sheathing problems?
Expect the possibility and price it. About five of every six pre-1940 housing units in Hillsborough County sit inside the city limits, and nobody can tell you what is under a covering that old until it comes off. We handle it with a per-sheet rate agreed before we start, so the discovery costs a figure you signed off on rather than a day-two negotiation.
Do you work outside the City of Tampa?
Yes, throughout north Hillsborough and central Pasco, from Town 'n' Country and Carrollwood out through Wesley Chapel and Dade City. Permit rules and inspection desks change at the city line, so we tell you which jurisdiction your address falls in before we quote. It changes the paperwork and sometimes the schedule, but it does not change the work.