Roofers in North Miami, FL: roof replacement done to code

What North Miami roofers replace: tile, flat and shingle on one house

North Miami was mostly built between the 1940s and the 1960s: one-story concrete-block homes on the grid between NE 125th Street and the Biscayne Boulevard corridor (33161), Keystone Point and Sans Souci Estates on the bay side (33181), and the duplexes and small apartment buildings west of NE 6th Avenue. Many 1950s houses were built with flat roofs; most pitched ones have since gained a flat-roofed addition, carport or Florida room.

The house above is typical of North Miami: a hip roof we re-tiled in Westlake Villa 900 concrete tile in the Gold Dust blend, beside the white flat roof over its garage wing. The flat-to-tile transition, where an addition meets the old wall, is where most of the leaks we trace in North Miami start, so we rebuild that flashing rather than tar over it. Our other photographed North Miami job, below, is an all-flat GAF modified-bitumen roof; both are in the project portfolio. On Keystone Point and the Sans Souci canal streets, in salt air off Biscayne Bay, we keep plain steel off the roof.

How to check a roofing company in North Miami before you sign

First, the license: ours is Florida Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1331964, plus a general contractor's license (CGC1525978); both can be checked at the DBPR license lookup, and the name on the license should match your contract. Second, who pulls the permit: it must be filed under the contractor's license, never as an owner-builder permit to save a fee. Third, a certificate of insurance for general liability and workers' compensation, issued to you by the carrier.

Then ask for the call in writing. After a free inspection we say whether the roof needs replacing or a repair will hold, and why; the repair-or-replace guide explains the code rule behind it. Our office is on Ives Dairy Road, a short drive north (about us).

• Licensed roofing contractor and general contractor, verifiable at DBPR.
• City of North Miami permit under our license, inspections scheduled by us.
• Certificate of insurance on request, general liability and workers' comp.

North Miami roofing permits, Miami-Dade NOAs and the inspections

A reroof in North Miami is permitted and inspected by the City of North Miami Building Department at 12340 NE 8th Avenue, which has its own roofing inspector, not by Miami-Dade County. The city is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) of the Florida Building Code, so the tile or shingle, underlayment, flat-roof membrane, fasteners and flashing each need a current Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) and go on exactly as it describes; the HVHZ permit guide shows how to read one.

We run the cycle as contractor of record: application and NOA package, then the inspections of the re-nailed deck, the self-adhered secondary water barrier at dry-in, the tile or shingle in progress, and the final, with any flat section under the same permit. You receive the closed permit, every NOA and the photos your wind-mitigation inspector will ask for.

What a roof replacement costs in North Miami and how long it takes

Our instant roof quote prices a roof by the square (100 sq ft) for shingle, flat, tile and metal; the written price follows a free inspection. In North Miami the number moves most on how much of the roof is flat and whether its drainage must be rebuilt, rotten plywood under the old tile (billed per sheet), whether it is a duplex or small apartment building with a larger flat roof, and crane access on the Keystone Point canal lots.

Once the city approves the permit, a single-family North Miami roof is 3–7 working days on site and never left open overnight; plan review takes days to a few weeks. Shingle against tile or metal is compared on the main roof replacement page; the same crews cover North Miami Beach next door.

Insurance, wind mitigation and $0-down financing for a North Miami roof

Florida lets a carrier require an inspection on a roof 15 years or older, and a 1950s house on its second or third roof is often past that. A new permitted roof resets the clock and earns credits on the wind-mitigation form (OIR-B1-1802) for the secondary water barrier, the re-nailed deck and the NOA-rated covering; how much depends on your carrier.

As an approved PACE contractor we finance at $0 down, repaid on the Miami-Dade property-tax bill, or through a GoodLeap or Service Finance loan from 2.99% APR (financing). If the roof is leaking now, a crew is in North Miami to tarp within 3 hours.

See roof replacement across South Florida, everything we do in North Miami, or call (786) 999-5353 for a free inspection.