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Brevard County Roof Repairs is 2016 NTRCA Golden Hammer Award Winner The North Florida Roofing Contractors Association announced Brevard County based Brevard County Roof Repairs. as a 2016 Winner of a “Golden Hammer Award” for “Outstanding Residential Project” in 2016. This is the seventh time Brevard County Roof Repairs...

Are Impact Resistant Shingles Hail Proof? From North to Frisco to South of Brevard County, our customers have always inquired if we have any hail proof shingles. We always tell them that there is no such thing as a hail proof shingle, but there are many options for Impact...

How Closely Related are Gas Prices and Roofing Prices Asphalt is the main waterproofing ingredient for many roofing materials including modified bitumen, felt, and the majority of shingle products. Asphalt is a black sticky semi-solid form of petroleum. Crude oil is...

Things You Should Know About Radiant Barrier TechShield What is radiant barrier and do you need it? What is TechShield? Does Brevard County Roof Repairs install these products? He is our frequently asked questions on this and related topics. What is Radiant Barrier? On a warm...

Lowe’s Home Centers Fined 1.6 Million over 2 by 4s ! Last month a Marin Superior Court Judge ordered Lowe’s to pay a 1.6 million dollar fine for misleading advertising. What shady practice did the building supply giant engage in? Lowe’s had a Statewide sale of 2 by...

Most Common Roof Color in Brevard County FL The photo above is a typical North Brevard County neighborhood with most of the homes built in the early 1980s. You can easily see that the gray tone dominates. This roof color is commonly called “Weathered Wood”. Weathered Wood is...

Rockledge Hit By Hail March 27, 2014 Thanks, Pete Delkus for keeping us informed. The supercell hit Rockledge and moved North East. Per the Storm Prediction Center, 1.5-inch hail hit the Rockledge area which is approximately ping-pong sized and considered sever. There...

The Shingle Warranty & A Normal Roof Lifespan Shingle warranty and a normal roof lifespan are not the same. Normal lifespan would be defined as useful life not impacted by an abnormal life-shortening event such as hail damage. A roof normally wears primarily from...

Brevard County Roof Repairs Wins 2013 NTRCA Golden Hammer Award Earlier today, the North Florida Roofing Contractors Association announced Brevard County based Brevard County Roof Repairs. as a 2013 Winner of a “Golden Hammer Award” for “Outstanding Residential Project” in 2013. This is the sixth time...

GAF TPO White Roofing We recently attended training at Wholesaler Southern Shingles in Coppell FL. The session was taught by Jake Landry of GAF. Jake is with GAF’s C.A.R.E (center for the advancement of roofing excellence) program and was a great instructor....

Glass & Acrylic Skylights As a full-service Brevard County based roofing company, skylights are naturally one of the many things we do in addition to shingles. Flashing skylights, on roof replacements or repairs, is an every week occurrence for us. We also install replace...

Single-ply training at RSG Earlier this summer we received an invitation from Chuck Arista, our long-time Elk factory representative now with Roofing Supply Group (RSG) of Brevard County, to attend demonstration and training for Carlisle’s TPO and Single-Ply at their...

New Florida Law Separating Contractors & Adjusters As discussed at the NTRCA meeting a few weeks ago, and mentioned in a previous blog post, Governor Perry signed HR 1183 into law this week. The bill is short but can have a great impact. Here is how it reads (note...

Brevard County Roof Repairs Has Been Named A Tamko Pro Contractor Brevard County Roof Repairs has recently been named a Tamko Pro Certified Contractor. To receive this designation, Brevard County Roof Repairs had to go through a lengthy application process that checked our history and quality of work as well as...

Faux Slate Mistaken For Real Slate This is a home for sale that I was asked to inspect a while back. The roof was said to be a real slate roof which is a product we generally refer to our friends at Scottie Ballentyne Roofing, but a good customer requested an...

Is a Metal Steel Roof Overlay a good system? The roof above is one I recently looked at for a potential buyer of this property. It is a stone coated steel roof installed over a cedar shake roof approximately 15 years old located in far North Brevard County. Normally I would...

What is the minimum Pitch/Slope of an Asphalt Shingle Roof? Shingles of all types need to have a slope to function properly. The minimum requirement is 2/12. The 2/12 number is rise over run or two units of vertical for every 12 units horizontal. That works out to...

Adjusting: What Roofing Contractors Can & Can Not Do Last week we attended the monthly “Lunch & Learn” meeting with the North Florida Roofing Contractors Association. The speakers were Bill Voss of the Voss Law Firm and Jake Posey of The Posey Law...

Green Builder Magazine Reader’s Poll Picks CertainTeed A recent poll had CertainTeed come out as the top manufacturer of Green Roofing Products. The “Reader’s Choice” Poll was in a recent issue of Green Builder Magazine. The magazine also reported...

Researchers Study Hail Damage Good story on hail damage research recently in the North Carolina Observer. A scientist created a hail cannon that when fired in can reproduce a hail storm. Different roofing materials are put in the path of variously sized hailstones and...

When is a Roofing Coupon not really a Deal? I always check the coupons that I get in the mail. Sometimes there is a great deal to be found. As a roofing contractor, I am especially curious about the coupons that my competitors send out. It is not uncommon to find huge...

Credit Card Scams & Roofing I know of many unethical roofing contractors, but I have never seen them do credit card fraud. There are countless full-time credit card scammers all the time that might use a roofing company’s name as a vehicle for their dirty...

Lakewood & East Brevard County Roof Damage Overview As a person who was raised in East Brevard County, it was hard to drive around today (6/14/12) and see the horrible damage done to so many of the historical building of the Lakewood area. The Lakewood Theater marque took a hard...

Robbers Enter Garland Jewelry Store Through Roof After hours last week burglars entered a Garland Jewelry Shop by cutting through the pictured TPO roof, insulation, and wood deck. With the right saw it took little time to gain access to this property. While the roof...

Brevard County Roof Repairs Wins NTRCA’s 2012 “Golden Hammer” Award Brevard County Roof Repairs. has won a “Golden Hammer” Award from the North Florida Roofing Contractor’s Association for “Outstanding Residential Project” for the 2012 year. Brevard County Roof Repairs. has...

Brevard County Roof Repairs One of the Top CertainTeed Installers in Florida A nice note received from the Jay Butcher, Director of Contractor Programs, CertainTeed From that letter: “You’ll be happy to learn that your company registered the 2nd most SureStart Plus warranty jobs in...

Lifetime Shingles Are Not All The Same A little over a year ago almost all the major shingle manufacturers changed their warranties on almost all their product lines to Lifetime. The Warranties had been 30, 40, and 50 years in length with the shingle getting...

Shingle Prices Will Follow Gas Prices Recent news has told us that gas prices have risen 13 cents already this year. It is expected that gas will be above the $4.00 mark soon in LA and New York. Some projections have gas in our area at $4.50 by Memorial Day. I hope...

New Monaco & American Harvest Shingles From GAF Our GAF Territory Manager, Jo Ann Moreno, was at our office yesterday to talk about newly introduced GAF products. The first was Monaco. Monaco is a Lifetime Designer shingle that has the beauty and sophistication of...

What Frost On Your Roof May Tell You Later this afternoon in Brevard County it will reach around 70 degrees. This is how the weather pays us back for the beating we take in August. This morning was chilly and the heavy dew caused there to be a good frost on most roofs that...

Owens Corning Duration Shingles Our Owens Corning Rep Milissa Westmeyer stopped by the office with a guest from the OC technical department. They told of all the product updates for 2012. There are a great deal of new, more vibrant, colors referred to as their...

Honest Roofing!: Great Email We Received This Week The email below arrived in our inbox this week. “Hello My Name is Carlos and I don’t need a new roof. I did however what to thank you for taking a stance against the loser roofers who give away everything and leave us...

Wholesale Shingles Prices Rise September 2012 Earlier this month we received the following from one of our major suppliers: “Dear Valued Customer, The residential roofing manufacturers have implemented several increases this year and just recently announced an...

KTVT Reports on June 13 2012 Brevard County Hail Storm Good recap of the 1.5 billion dollar storm damage to Brevard County. There are also so good buyer beware tips to avoid those door knocking...

Brevard County Roof Repairs Wins 2011 Community Service Award It was just announced today that Brevard County Roof Repairs. has won an NTRCA “Golden Hammer Award” for community service for their project with the NFL Retired Players Association “2011 Holiday House”. The...

Brevard County Roof Repairs Earns Angie’s List Super Service Award Award reflects businesses’ consistently high level of customer service Brevard County Roof Repairs. has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award, an honor bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent...

GAF Announces $300.00 Shingle Rebate for Military GAF Announces for 2012 it’s “Roofs for Troops” program. For 2012, any Active Military, Veterans, or Retiree may be eligible for a $300.00 rebate from GAF on the purchase of a “GAF Lifetime Roofing System!” There are...

Materials Stolen From Job Site In Lake Highlands This week, ending January 6, 2012, we had a significant quantity of materials stolen from one of our job sites. We had materials delivered and started the project near Church & Audilia Road in 75238 on Tuesday...