Tallahassee Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair, Metal Roofing & Storm Damage

The job we turn down most often in Tallahassee is twenty-nine gauge exposed-fastener metal on a lot with oaks standing over it.

It is the cheapest metal panel sold, and under a canopy we think it is the worst buy in roofing: a limb dents it, the strike works the neoprene washers loose for a few feet in every direction, and one hole quietly becomes twenty.

Tallahassee Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor here, and on a shaded lot we would rather sell you a good shingle roof than a thin metal one.

When metal is right in this city, it is very right. Pine straw and leaf litter slide off a smooth panel instead of composting in a valley the way they do on shingle, so the slope dries and the valleys stay open through leaf drop.

What we install under trees is twenty-four gauge standing seam, concealed clips, solid deck beneath it. Five-vee crimp earns its place on outbuildings and simple gable runs.

We have opinions about color too: pale panels on the clay roads take on the shade of a truck that has been down Old Bainbridge after a rain, and it does not rinse off.

Storms reach Leon County with thirty-odd miles of pine and hardwood between us and the Gulf, which sounds like shelter and is not, because everything the wind breaks off up there arrives as a projectile aimed at your decking. Shade works the same way.

North slopes here stay damp long enough to grow the black algae streaking you see on half the roofs off the canopy roads, and our advice on that is usually to leave it be rather than pressure wash ten good years of granules into your gutters.

So the work is roof replacement, roof leak repair, metal roofing and storm damage restoration, plus inspections, ventilation, fascia and soffit, chimney flashing, skylights, coatings and commercial low-slope membrane across the Big Bend and Red Hills, from Crawfordville and Quincy out to Monticello and Bristol. Free inspections, photographs of every finding with its location, a written line-item scope, permits pulled through the City inside the limits and Leon County outside them, and a written workmanship warranty on every installation.

About Tallahassee Roof Pros in Tallahassee, FL

The question we hear most in Tallahassee is whether metal is worth the premium on a shaded lot. Our answer is usually yes, with a condition attached: twenty-four gauge standing seam over a solid deck, or do not bother. Budget metal under a live oak is a worse roof than the shingles it replaced. Tallahassee Roof Pros works the Big Bend and Red Hills, licensed and insured, on residential and commercial roofing.

Before any of that we go into the attic, because plank decking records a limb strike that the surface above it hides, and because the long summers here punish an attic with choked soffit intake. We back fasteners out by hand to see whether the wood still grips, measure the intake against the exhaust, photograph findings with locations, and hand you a written line-item scope that separates what can wait a season from what cannot.

On money we are blunt. Metal runs a multiple of a comparable shingle roof and re-decking widens the gap, so compare total scope to total scope, not panel to shingle.

We will not spray a coating over a shingle roof, build a hail claim out of limb damage, or absorb a deductible; the first two cause damage and the third is fraud in Florida. If four hundred dollars of flashing is the right answer, that is the quote you get, reasoning written beside it.

How It Works

1. 1

   Inspection From the Attic Down

   We start inside with a light and a moisture meter, looking at the underside of the deck for split plank, wet halos and rusted nail shanks. The attic tells you what a limb strike actually did. Then we walk every slope and photograph what we find, with locations.

2. 2

   Deck Test Before Any Quote

   We back out fasteners in three or four quadrants to see whether the wood still grips. A roof whose deck will not hold a nail cannot be repaired, and one that does can often be repaired for a fraction of a replacement. That test decides the number, not a sales script.

3. 3

   Line-Item Scope You Can Read

   You get a written scope with re-decking, drip edge, valley membrane, boots, ridge vent and disposal priced separately, plus a plain note about what we would leave alone. If we think the honest answer is a repair, the quote will say repair and we will explain why.

4. 4

   Install, Inspect, Clean Up

   Six nails per shingle in the nailing zone, real starter strip at rakes and eaves, new flashing rather than reused, and hand-sealing within three feet of every edge. We run a magnet over the yard twice, photograph the finished work, and register the manufacturer warranty for you.