Fort Myers · Lee County, Florida
Roofers who actually
work in Fort Myers.
Our office is on Cypress Lake Drive, which means Fort Myers isn't a service radius on a map for us — it's the drive home. Free inspection, photographs of every problem area, and a straight answer about whether you're looking at a repair or something bigger.
Based here. Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. Water coming in right now? Call, don't use the form.
- Free, with no obligation
- Written report with photos
- Office on Cypress Lake Drive
Free inspection
Photos and a written report, no obligation.
Local office
Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers — not a call centre.
Lee County permits
Your contractor pulls them. You don't.
Repair before replace
When repair genuinely holds.
Local knowledge
What's different about roofs in Fort Myers
Roofs don't fail the same way everywhere, even inside one county.
A lot of roofs went on at the same time
Large parts of south Fort Myers were built or re-roofed in tight windows, which means whole streets reach the end of an underlayment's life within a couple of years of each other. If three neighbours have had roofs done recently, that's information about yours.
The 2007 code line matters more here than most places
Because so much of the housing stock straddles it. Whether your roof was last done to the 2007 Florida Building Code or later decides whether a repair over 25% forces a full replacement under s. 553.844(5). Permit history is worth checking before anyone quotes — every time.
Older tile, discontinued profiles
Plenty of barrel tile around here that hasn't been manufactured in years. Matching is a real constraint on repair, and it's the honest reason some repairs cost more than you'd expect.
Tree cover
More mature canopy than the newer communities south of here. Lovely, and hard on valleys — debris load is a recurring cause of valley failure in the older neighbourhoods.
Permits
Who actually issues your roof permit in Fort Myers
Roofing is permitted work here, and the office that issues the permit is not the same in every one of our four cities. Your contractor pulls it either way — but it is worth knowing which desk your job lands on, because it changes what gets inspected and when.
Your mailing address doesn't decide it
A Fort Myers postal address does not tell you who issues your permit. Inside the city limits it's the City of Fort Myers Building, Permitting & Inspections. Outside them — and a great many Fort Myers-addressed homes are outside them — it's Lee County Community Development. The only reliable way to tell is to look the parcel up on the Lee County Property Appraiser's GeoView tool or the county's city-limits map. That gets checked before anyone quotes.
If it's unincorporated Lee County
Permits go through the county's eConnect system, and a permit is required to replace, repair or re-cover a roof — the county's roof guide sets no square-footage floor below which you can skip it. Inspections follow the roof type: shingle is dry-in then final; tile adds an in-process inspection between the two. A permit lapses if no inspection happens within 180 days of issue.
If it's the City of Fort Myers
Building, Permitting & Inspections handles it, and your contractor files it. We're not going to publish the city's fee schedule or portal details here, because we couldn't confirm the current figures from the city directly — they get confirmed on your job instead of quoted off a directory site.
After the roof: wind mitigation
Once a roof is replaced, Florida's uniform mitigation inspection form (OIR-B1-1802) is what lets an insurer see the wind-resistant features you've just paid for — roof cover, deck attachment, roof-to-wall connection, and whether there's a secondary water barrier. Under s. 627.0629 insurers have to give actuarially reasonable discounts for those features. We won't quote you a dollar figure, because the saving depends on your carrier and your house — but a new roof with no mitigation form filed is money left sitting there.
Sourced from each issuing authority's own published guidance. Where we could not confirm a detail directly with the department, we say so above rather than fill the gap — and it gets checked on your job rather than guessed at here.
What we do here
The same work, in Fort Myers.
Free roof inspection
Full walk of the exterior, attic where there's safe access, photographs of every problem area and a written report. How an inspection works
Roof repair
Tile, shingle and flat. The right answer is fixing the section that failed, not selling a roof you don't need yet. What gets repaired
Storm damage repair
Emergency dry-in first, documented before cleanup, rebuilt afterwards. After a storm
Roof replacement
When the roof has reached the end rather than failed in one spot, and what the 2023 Florida code requires once the covering comes off. How replacement works
Roof rejuvenation & restoration
More years from a roof that is worn rather than failed, when the inspection says it is a candidate. When it is worth it
Insurance claim documentation
Photographs, measurements and a scope of work. We're not permitted to negotiate the claim and we'll explain who is. What a roofer may do
Roof replacement
Replacing a roof in Fort Myers.
Older shingle south of Colonial and newer tile out toward Daniels, so the right answer here depends a lot on which side of town you are on. Each covering fails in its own way and raises its own questions, so they have a page each.
Shingle roof replacement
The common one, and the page that explains why the underlayment specification matters more than the shingle brand.
Metal roof replacement
Standing seam or exposed fastener, coastal corrosion, and why metal does not automatically earn an insurance credit.
Tile roof replacement
The tile is usually fine. The underlayment beneath it is what expires, and that decides lift-and-relay against full replacement.
Flat roof replacement
Low-slope and flat sections, where most Florida failures turn out to be drainage rather than the membrane.
Not sure a replacement is what you need? A leak does not mean a new roof, and a free inspection settles it either way. We cover four cities in Lee County.
Around Fort Myers
Fort Myers, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Same city, different roofs. Where your house is says a lot about what to look at first.
South Fort Myers: Cypress Lake, Whiskey Creek, McGregor and Iona
Older housing, a lot of it built or last re-roofed in the same few years, with mature tree cover over the streets. That means valleys loaded with debris, older shingle and barrel tile, and a good chance the profile on your roof is no longer made. Many of these addresses also sit outside the city limits, so the permit goes to Lee County rather than the city. Matching discontinued tile.
East of I-75: Gateway, Daniels and the newer communities
Newer tile roofs, mostly built to the 2007 code or later and mostly inside communities with architectural rules. Failures here tend to be at the details, such as flashings, ridge and penetrations, rather than across the whole roof, and the 25 percent rule's exception for newer roofs usually applies.
Roofs that went on after Ian
Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28, 2022, and a very large number of Fort Myers roofs were replaced in the two years after it, some by crews from out of the area who have since gone home. If yours was one, check that the permit was closed with a final inspection, keep the workmanship warranty somewhere you can find it, and know whose license was on the job. A roof that young should not leak. If it does, it is usually workmanship at an edge or a flashing, and worth documenting while the warranty still runs.
Older but still sound
A shingle roof that is drying out but not failing may be a candidate for rejuvenation, and a tile roof with a sound membrane for restoration rather than replacement. If replacement is on the table, here is what it costs in Fort Myers and how to compare quotes.
Fort Myers
Questions from Fort Myers
Where exactly are you based?
7191 Cypress Lake Drive, Suite 3, Fort Myers, FL 33907. It's an office, not a call centre with a local number pointed at it.
Do you cover the beaches and the islands?
Call and ask about your specific address. We'd rather tell you honestly that somewhere is at the edge of what we cover than take the booking and then juggle it.
Do you charge for the visit?
No. The inspection, the photographs and the written report are free, and there's no obligation to book work afterwards.
How far out are you booking?
Depends on the week and on whether anything has just come through. Call and we'll tell you the real number rather than a comfortable one. Active leaks get moved up.
Who pulls the permit?
Your contractor does. Roofing work here is permitted work and the licensed contractor files it, not you. If a roofer asks you to pull an owner-builder permit for their work, that should worry you.
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