Roofing in Fort Myers, FL

Fort Myers is where our office is, at 7191 Cypress Lake Drive STE 3. That matters less as a marketing line than as a practical one: it means a call from most of the city is a short drive rather than a scheduling problem, and it means we are looking at the same weather you are.

What we see most on Fort Myers roofs

Aging shingle stock south of Colonial

A lot of the housing between Colonial Boulevard and College Parkway is asphalt shingle that has been through more than one storm season than it was really specified for. The failures are consistent: creased tabs along the windward edges, pipe boots that have gone brittle and split, and ridge caps that have lost their seal.

Newer tile out toward Daniels and Gateway

The tile roofs on the newer east-side communities are usually in good visible condition. The question worth asking on those roofs is never about the tile, it is about the underlayment beneath it, which ages on a shorter clock than the tile does and cannot be assessed from the ground.

Low-slope additions

Lanai roofs, Florida rooms and additions built onto older Fort Myers houses are a reliable source of leaks, and almost always at the transition where the low-slope section meets the main sloped roof rather than in the middle of the flat area.

Tree cover

The older neighbourhoods off McGregor have mature canopy, which is lovely and also means debris load, overhanging limbs abrading the covering, and gutters and valleys that clog and back water up under the roofing.

Areas we cover

Across the city and the surrounding unincorporated areas, including Cypress Lake, Whiskey Creek, Fort Myers Villas, Iona, San Carlos Park, the Daniels Parkway corridor, Gateway, and the McGregor and College Parkway corridors. If you are just outside one of those, call and ask rather than assuming.

Permits in Fort Myers

Which office issues your permit depends on whether your address sits inside the City of Fort Myers limits or in unincorporated Lee County. We confirm that before we file rather than guessing, because filing in the wrong jurisdiction wastes a week.

Either way, roofing work requires a permit, product approval numbers for every material used have to be filed with the application, projects over $5,000 need a Notice of Commencement, and residential re-roofs require a Roof Inspection Affidavit before the final inspection can be signed off.