Sea Grape Roofing

Roofing across Broward County

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Two kinds of roof on one street, failing two different ways. Gravel hides its trouble; tile hides it underneath. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field, yet the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1: ridge caps 1 Ridge caps: full sun, no shade, ever Point 2: the field of the roof 2 The field: shingle, or tile on felt Point 3: valleys 3 Valleys: one line, this much rain Point 4: flashing 4 Flashing: salt reaches metal Point 5: vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6: eaves and the screened room 6 Eaves: where the Florida room ties in
  1. 1 Ridge caps. The ridge is first to bake, first to lift.
  2. 2 The field. Barrel tile or shingle, over an underlayment quietly doing the work.
  3. 3 Valleys. One line carrying what two slopes shed, at the pace this coast rains.
  4. 4 Flashing. Where salt reaches the metal years ahead of the covering it protects.
  5. 5 The vent boot. A rubber collar that hardens, cracks, and lets the rain straight in.
  6. 6 Eaves. Where the screen enclosure meets the roof, and where fasteners give up.

Two kinds of roof on the same street

Gravel over a flat deck on one house, barrel tile on the next, and ocean air working on the metal of both. They fail differently and they are inspected differently, which is why one generic estimate rarely fits either.

The work

Fourteen cities, one county

Fourteen cities across Broward, from the 1920s barrel tile of Fort Lauderdale and the mid-century blocks of the east to the master-planned tile of the west, in the county with the strictest roofing code in the country.