Apopka, Florida
One crew, one truck,
and a document
at the end of it
Halyard Roofing has been owner-run since 2011. The owner is on every roof, which is a limit as much as a promise — it is why we run one crew, why the radius is thirty minutes, and why we are sometimes three weeks out.
Why the report exists
Roofing has a structural honesty problem, and it is not that roofers are worse people than plumbers. It is that almost everything that matters on a roof is invisible from the ground and permanently invisible once the next course is laid. Nobody can see whether the deck was re-nailed. Nobody can see where the nails went in the shingle. Nobody can see whether there is membrane in the valley or just felt. The homeowner is buying a claim.
So we write it down. Every job ends in a condition report that lists what we found, what we did, what it cost and what we refused to do. It goes to you as a document you keep, and the refusals are on it at $0.00 in the same list as the charges, because a refusal is a decision somebody should be able to check us on later.
What we do not do
We do not knock on doors after a storm. We do not employ commission salesmen, so nobody who comes to your house is paid more for selling you a roof than for telling you that you do not need one. We do not offer to cover, discount, waive or absorb an insurance deductible, and in Florida no roofer is allowed to — if one offers, that tells you something about the rest of their work.
We do not advertise how many roofs we have done, what our average review score is, or how many years of combined experience the crew has. Those numbers are unverifiable by you, and a website full of unverifiable numbers is exactly the thing this one is trying not to be. The checkable numbers we do publish are the nail spec and the deck re-nail spec, because you can stand in your own attic and check one of them.
The shop
- Trading since
- 2011
- Structure
- Owner-run, one crew
- Base
- 118 Halyard Court, Apopka FL 32703
- Radius
- About 30 minutes from Apopka
- Phone
- (656) 236-2374
- Typical lead time
- Two to three weeks in a dry month
The name
A halyard is the line that hauls a sail up a mast — the thing that does the lifting and is never the thing you look at. It seemed about right for a trade where the work that matters is the work that gets covered up.
Licensing and insurance
Any roofer working in Florida should be able to hand you a license number and a current certificate of insurance naming you, without being asked twice, before the first day. Ask us, ask everyone else you get a price from, and be suspicious of anyone who wants to talk about it later.
(This is a demonstration site for a business that does not exist, so no real license or insurance numbers are printed here. A real site would show them.)