About thirty minutes
out of Apopka

Towns we work in

• Apopka
• Ocoee
• Winter Garden
• Zellwood
• Plymouth
• Tangerine
• Clarcona
• Lockhart
• Wekiwa Ocoee
• Altamonte Ocoee
• Longwood
• Forest City
• Sorrento
• Mount Dora
• Eustis
• Orlando (north and west)

If you are a little outside that list, call anyway. The line is not a wall, it is an honest estimate of how far a single crew can stretch without the second job on the calendar suffering for the first.

What is different about roofs around here

Two things dominate. The first is ultraviolet: a roof in central Florida spends its life being cooked, and the components that fail first are the rubber and plastic ones, not the shingle. Pipe boots, pipe collars, plastic vent housings and the sealant round a skylight all give up years before the mat does. That is why a fifteen-year-old roof here so often needs three hundred dollars of parts and nothing else.

The second is the attic. Blocks and slabs with vented attics, ducts run through them, and a bathroom fan that somebody terminated into the insulation instead of through the roof. You get a hot, damp attic, rusty nail points, a deck that never dries out and shingles aging from below. Half the ventilation work we do is really the tail end of somebody else's fan installation.

And then the weather. Afternoon storms from June through September mean we work in sections and dry in the same day, and a named storm in the forecast stops tear-offs entirely. Nobody opens a roof on a Tuesday when the cone moves on a Wednesday.

Older neighborhoods, older decks

A good deal of Apopka and Zellwood housing stock predates the fastening rules everybody now takes for granted. On those roofs the deck re-nail is not a formality; it is often the most valuable thing that happens all week, and it is only possible with the shingles off. That is one more reason the overlay conversation ends the way it does.