Tile Roof Replacement in Jupiter Farms

Tile weighs several times what shingle weighs per square foot, and multiplying that by the area of an acreage house is how a straightforward re-roof turns into a structural question. Where the house already carries tile, it is settled and the job is the usual one.

Where somebody wants to move to tile from shingle, we look at what can be seen of the framing and tell you plainly whether it is a roofing decision or one that needs an engineer, before anybody chooses a profile.

1. On an existing tile roof whose underlayment has failed, lifting the tile, replacing the underlayment, flashings and fastening and relaying the same tile costs materially less than new tile, and on a roof this size that difference is real money. The waterproofing is entirely new and the roof looks unchanged.
2. We count the tile at the inspection and tell you honestly whether enough of it is sound, because on a big roof the arithmetic matters more than the preference.

With no association on most of these roads, the tile profile and the colour are genuinely your decision, which is worth taking seriously rather than treating as an afterthought. It also means there is no committee timeline to plan around and no submittal to wait on, so once the material is chosen the county permit through ePZB is usually issued almost at once and the schedule is entirely the roofer's.

If it already has one, yes. If it has shingle and you want tile, that needs a look at the framing rather than at the roof, because tile weighs several times what shingle weighs and these are large roofs.

We tell you whether it is straightforward or whether it needs an engineer before you spend anything on choosing a profile.

For waterproofing, identical, because the underlayment, the flashings and the fastening are all replaced and that is what keeps the water out. What you keep is the tile itself.

On a large acreage roof the saving is substantial, so it is the first thing worth asking about. It is wrong only when too much tile is cracked or the profile cannot be matched.

On most Jupiter Farms roads, no, because there is no association. A few communities out here do have one, so check yours rather than assume.

Where there is none, the profile and the colour are your choice and the only limit is what the structure can carry and what you want to look at.

It depends what you want from it. Tile lasts a long time and looks the way it looks, and away from salt it ages well.

But the gap between tile and shingle on an acreage roof is larger in absolute terms than on a town lot simply because of area, so it is a bigger decision out here. We will price both and let the numbers make the argument.

Call 561-318-8624 or book the free inspection. A roofer measures the roof, counts and lifts tile where there is tile, reads the framing where it can be seen and photographs the underlayment and flashings.

You receive a written scope in lines: lift or tear-off, deck repair allowance, underlayment, tile and setting system, flashing and metal, permit and inspections, cleanup.