Roof knowledge
Field guides that make you harder to mislead.
Guides written for property owners in plain language: the questions any roof inspection should survive, how to document storm damage, how to choose between shingle, metal, and tile, what the commercial low-slope systems are, and how to earn a roof's full service life. Use them on every contractor who bids your roof, including us.
Published guides
Seventeen guides, ready to use
Each one is general roofing education: no prices, no scare copy, nothing that requires trusting us first. More publish as they clear methodology review, and none will pretend to be finished before they are.
Questions answered
Florida roof rules, answered
The 25 percent rule and its 2022 carve-out for roofs built to the 2007 code or later, permits and the new small-repair exemption, secondary water barriers, and how to check any contractor license yourself.
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Florida roof insurance, answered
Actual cash value versus replacement cost, roof and hurricane deductibles, the matching statute, wind mitigation inspections and credits, and what Citizens actually requires for older roofs.
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Questions answered
After the hurricane, answered
When to tarp and the order to document in, the rules on post-storm door knockers, deductible offers, the cancellation window for storm contracts, assignment of benefits, public adjuster fee caps, and Florida's roof-hardening grant program.
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Florida roof materials, answered
FL product approvals and how to look them up, Miami-Dade NOAs, what shingle wind classes really mean, when a roof-over is allowed, why underlayment is the layer that matters, and the FORTIFIED standard.
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The roof replacement process, answered
How long a replacement actually takes and what stretches it, the permit clock and where to watch it yourself, whether to be home, how loud tear-off gets and what to do about pets, what to move before the crew arrives, and what rain does to the plan.
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Questions answered
Hiring a roofer in Florida, answered
Comparing companies by records you can check, what the CCC and CGC license classes mean and who must subcontract roofing, the questions that belong in writing, warranties and whether they transfer at sale, reasonable payment terms, and the storm-chaser pattern.
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Questions answered
What drives roof cost in Florida, answered
The factors behind every quote, with no invented averages: why quotes differ on scope before price, what a roofing square is, what tile, pitch, and complexity add, how decking surprises should be priced before tear-off, and how roof financing actually works.
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Questions answered
Roof situations in Florida, answered
Selling the house, condo versus HOA responsibility, solar panels at reroof, a flat roof that holds water, and when hurricane season actually runs, answered as general structure with the right professional named.
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Playbook
The storm response playbook
For property managers and associations: the first 2 hours, the first 24, the first week, and the first 30 days after a storm, with vendor verification, the documentation standard, and tenant communication built in.
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Reference
The roofing glossary
Plain-language definitions for the terms roofers, estimators, and inspection reports actually use: anatomy, flashing details, system families, measurement terms, and storm documentation, each with a stable link.
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Field guide
The roof inspection question set
Twenty questions that turn any contractor's inspection into evidence you can check: what was examined, what failed, why this scope, and what you hold at closeout.
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Capital planning
Repair, restore or replace?
What each path honestly solves, the seven inputs that decide between them, and the red flags that a recommendation is bigger or smaller than the roof's condition.
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Visual atlas
Roof details that deserve a closer look
A detail-by-detail atlas of where roofs actually fail: valleys, flashings, penetrations, edges, drains, and ponding, observed safely from the ground.
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Field guide
Storm damage: what to document
How to read hail, wind, and hurricane damage from the ground, what to photograph and when, and how to build a dated evidence record. Documentation is yours to gather; coverage is the insurer's to decide.
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Decision guide
Choosing a roof system: shingle, metal or tile
A homeowner's comparison of asphalt shingle, standing seam metal, and clay or concrete tile across cost tier, service life, weight and structure, look, and climate fit, with the visualizer to try each on your own roof.
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System guide
Commercial low-slope roofing systems
What TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen, and restoration coatings each are, where each earns its place, and the decision factors that separate a re-cover from a tear-off on a low-slope roof.
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Field guide
Roof maintenance and service life
How to earn the full service life from a roof: seasonal ground-level checks, keeping water moving, catching small failures early, and why a documented baseline between events is worth more than waiting for a leak.
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The library grows as new guides clear methodology review; nothing here publishes on a marketing schedule. If your question is not covered yet, call (888) 669-7663 and ask. The thinking behind these guides does not wait for publication.
Tools
Try it on your own roof
Tools publish under the same rules as the guides: each one does something real, states its limits, and asks for nothing it does not need.
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