Tallahassee Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair, Metal Roofing & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Leon County and the Big Bend.
- Licensed and insured Florida roofing contractor
- Free inspections with photographs and a written scope
- Emergency tarping after tree and storm damage
- Written workmanship warranty on every installation
Our Roofing Services in Tallahassee, FL
Roof Replacement
Most replacements we sell in Leon County begin as a limb strike. A homeowner calls about one hole, we open the deck, and the sheathing around it has been flexing under oak load for years.
Roof Leak Repair
A leak in this city is usually smaller than it looks and further from the stain than you expect. Water lands on plank decking, runs along a board until it meets a gap, and drops into the attic twenty feet from where it entered.
Storm Damage Roof Restoration
When a pine comes through a roof in Tallahassee, roofing is the last trade to arrive, not the first. Something has to hold the house up before anyone talks about shingles, and confusing that order is how storm jobs go wrong.
Hail Damage Roof Repair
This is the page where we talk you out of something. Tallahassee is not a hail market, and most of what gets called hail damage on a North Florida roof is limb bruising, tree litter abrasion or ordinary age.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Wind is a real peril here and we do not downplay it. What is different about Tallahassee is that the canopy changes how wind reaches your roof, and that changes where the roof fails and what a proper repair has to address.
Roof Inspections
An inspection in a tree city has to answer a specific question: is this a hole or is this a system at the end of its life. Those need different money and they are easy to confuse from a ladder.
Asphalt Shingle Roofing
Asphalt shingle covers most of Tallahassee and it should. What matters here is not the brand on the wrapper but two properties: how the mat behaves when something falls on it, and how the surface behaves when it never gets full sun.
Metal Roofing
Metal is the one covering where Tallahassee genuinely diverges from the rest of Florida, and where the tree canopy argues both for it and against a cheap version of it. This page is longer than the others because the decision has more moving parts.
Tile Roofing
We service tile in Tallahassee and we rarely recommend installing it here. That is an unusual position for a Florida roofer and it comes directly from what falls on roofs in this part of the state.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope sections in Tallahassee are mostly porches, carports, sunroom additions and the back half of mid-century ranches. They fail for a reason specific to this city: leaf and needle litter turns a drainage plane into a shallow pond.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Read this page as a set of limits rather than a sales pitch. Coatings are a legitimate product with a narrow correct use, and in Tallahassee they get sold for the one job they cannot do — sealing a roof that something fell on.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation matters more under a canopy than it does in the open, and it is the system most often broken by the same limbs that damage the covering. A ridge vent is the highest thing on your roof and the first thing a branch finds.
Skylights
Skylights and mature trees are an awkward pairing, and we would rather have that conversation before you buy one than after a limb finds it. Two issues drive everything on this page: impact and shade.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters in a tree city are a debris-handling system that happens to move water. Size them and detail them for what falls into them and they work.
Fascia & Soffit
The eave is where a Tallahassee roof usually shows its age first, and it is the assembly most often damaged by a limb that never touched the field of the roof at all. A branch sliding off a slope catches the overhang on its way down.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a hole in your roof with a wall around it, and it leaks for reasons that have nothing to do with shingle age. In this city it is also a rigid mass sitting where limbs land, which adds a failure mode most roofers do not check for.
Emergency Roof Tarping
This is the service the rest of this site is organized around. When a tree opens a roof in Tallahassee, the damage that ends up costing the most is almost never the impact itself.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in Tallahassee has a character set by the tenants: state agency offices, medical buildings off Miccosukee Road, student housing near Florida State and Florida A&M, churches, and retail strips along Apalachee Parkway and North Monroe. The canopy issue does not go away at this scale, it changes shape.
Insurance Claim Support
We are roofers, not public adjusters, and Florida law draws that line firmly. What we do is document accurately, scope completely, and speak the adjuster's language so your claim reflects the actual damage.
Tallahassee Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Tallahassee, Florida, handling roof replacement, roof repair, metal roofing, storm damage restoration and emergency tarping for homes and commercial buildings throughout Leon County. We install architectural asphalt shingles, standing seam and 5V crimp metal panels, and TPO or modified bitumen low-slope membranes, and we repair the flashing, valleys and pipe boots that leak long before a covering wears out.
What separates the work here is what we look for underneath. North Florida roofs fail from impact — a water oak limb, a pine section, a whole tree — and the damage runs into the plank decking and the rafters below it. We open the deck, test fastener grip and re-sheathe where the wood no longer holds a nail, rather than shingling over boards that have already split once.
Free inspections, written line-item scopes, photographs of every finding with locations, and a written workmanship warranty on every installation. We also handle roof leak repair, roof inspections, gutters and downspouts, fascia and soffit, chimney flashing, skylights, roof ventilation, roof coatings and commercial roofing across the Big Bend and Red Hills, from Crawfordville and Quincy out to Monticello and Bristol.
What Tallahassee Customers Say
A water oak limb went through the back slope during a June storm. They tarped it the same evening, screwed down properly rather than weighted, and when they opened the deck they found only two split boards. Two other companies had already quoted a full replacement from the driveway. Repair came in under a tenth of that.
Called them about hail after a bad afternoon storm and they told me straight that it was not hail, it was a branch, and that filing it would probably get denied. Then they showed me the vent caps to prove it. Fixed the four bruised shingles and the pipe boot for a few hundred dollars.
Old house, steep pitch, three chimneys and every one of them leaking. They framed crickets behind two of them, cut a real reglet into the mortar for the counterflashing instead of caulking it, and brought in a mason for the crown they said was outside their trade. First dry winter in six years.
I asked for metal and they talked me through why the cheap panel I had priced would dent and leak under my pines. Ended up with 24-gauge standing seam over new deck. They also resized the gutters and outlets for needle load, which nobody else had even mentioned.
Why Tallahassee Chooses Tallahassee Roof Pros
- ✓We inspect from inside the attic first, because plank decking records a limb strike that shingles hide.
- ✓We test fastener grip in the deck before quoting, so repair-versus-replace is a measurement rather than an opinion.
- ✓We price re-decking as a line item up front instead of raising it as a change order mid-job.
- ✓We say no to shingle coatings and to hail claims built on limb damage, even when it costs us the sale.
- ✓We flag overhanging dead limbs in the inspection report as a list for your arborist, not as work we sell.
- ✓We specify by exposure — a shaded canopy lot and an open shoreline lot get genuinely different roofs.
About Tallahassee Roof Pros in Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Roof Pros works the Big Bend and Red Hills — Leon, Gadsden, Wakulla, Jefferson and the counties around them — on residential and commercial roofing. Licensed, insured, and organized around one fact about this region: the thing that damages roofs here falls out of a tree. Live oak, laurel oak, water oak, slash pine and loblolly, in roughly that order of trouble.
That shapes how we inspect. We go into the attic before we go on the roof, because plank decking records a limb strike in a way shingles do not. We test fastener grip, photograph what we find with locations, and give you a written line-item scope with a remaining-service-life estimate you can hold us to. Then we say which findings can wait a season and which cannot.
Do not hire us if you want a coating sprayed over a shingle roof, a hail claim built on limb damage, or a deductible quietly absorbed. We will not do the first two because they cause damage, and the third is insurance fraud in Florida. If a four-hundred-dollar repair is the right answer, that is the quote you will get, and we will put the reasoning in writing next to it.
How It Works
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Inspection From the Attic Down
We start inside with a light and a moisture meter, looking at the underside of the deck for split plank, wet halos and rusted nail shanks. The attic tells you what a limb strike actually did. Then we walk every slope and photograph what we find, with locations.
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Deck Test Before Any Quote
We back out fasteners in three or four quadrants to see whether the wood still grips. A roof whose deck will not hold a nail cannot be repaired, and one that does can often be repaired for a fraction of a replacement. That test decides the number, not a sales script.
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Line-Item Scope You Can Read
You get a written scope with re-decking, drip edge, valley membrane, boots, ridge vent and disposal priced separately, plus a plain note about what we would leave alone. If we think the honest answer is a repair, the quote will say repair and we will explain why.
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Install, Inspect, Clean Up
Six nails per shingle in the nailing zone, real starter strip at rakes and eaves, new flashing rather than reused, and hand-sealing within three feet of every edge. We run a magnet over the yard twice, photograph the finished work, and register the manufacturer warranty for you.
Commercial Roofing in Tallahassee & Across the Big Bend
We roof and maintain state agency offices, medical buildings, student housing near Florida State and Florida A&M, churches, and retail along Apalachee Parkway and North Monroe Street. Most of it is low-slope membrane under mature live oaks, which makes drainage a twelve-month problem rather than a storm-season one. We build inspection and clearing schedules around leaf drop, sequence work around occupancy, and price penetration corrections separately so a facilities manager can stage them across budget years.
- ✓60-mil mechanically fastened and fully adhered TPO with heat-welded seams
- ✓Two-ply SBS modified bitumen where foot traffic or limb strikes are likely
- ✓Standing seam metal over solid deck on churches and civic buildings
- ✓Silicone and acrylic coating restoration when the membrane is genuinely sound
- ✓Rooftop unit curb reflashing, pitch pans and condensate line corrections
- ✓Scupper and drain sizing for leaf and pine needle load, with dome strainers
- ✓Annual written condition reports per roof section with a carry-forward repair log
- ✓Summer scheduling for student housing and odor-controlled systems for medical tenants
Service Areas
Tallahassee Roof Pros serves Tallahassee, FL and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across the Big Bend and Red Hills
Frequently Asked Questions
A limb fell on my roof. Do I need a whole new roof?
Usually not. The question is whether the deck under the impact still holds a fastener. If the plank has split along the grain, we re-sheathe that section and reshingle it; if the boards are sound, it is a patch. We open the deck and test before quoting, and about half the limb strikes we look at in Leon County turn out to be sectional repairs.
Is Tallahassee in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone?
No. The HVHZ covers Miami-Dade and Broward counties only, so the Miami-specific product approval rules do not apply to Leon County. Wind is still a real design load here and we detail edges and fastening accordingly, but you are not required to buy a South Florida assembly and you should be skeptical of anyone telling you otherwise.
Should I go metal or shingle under all these trees?
Both work if you buy the right version. Under heavy canopy, metal has to be twenty-four gauge standing seam over a solid deck — thin exposed-fastener panel dents and works its washers loose under a limb. If metal is out of budget, an impact-rated laminated shingle with algae-resistant granules is the better buy, and we will say so.
Do I actually have hail damage?
Probably not. Tallahassee is not a hail market, and most of what gets called hail here is limb bruising, tree litter abrasion or ordinary age. Real hail is randomly distributed across every slope and marks soft metals like vent caps and gutter apron. If only one slope is marked in a line, that was a branch, and filing it as hail gets it denied.
How fast can you tarp after a storm?
We prioritize open roofs and get to them as quickly as conditions allow. A proper tarp is screwed down through furring strips into rafters and run from above the ridge past the damage, not weighted with sandbags. If a limb is still resting on the structure we assess load path first, because dragging it off can drop a broken rafter into the room below.
Does my insurance cover the tree removal too?
Partly, and this surprises people. Most Florida policies pay for damage the tree did to the dwelling in full but cap removal of the tree itself under a separate, much smaller debris-removal limit. A tree that falls without hitting anything is often not covered at all. Read those two limits before you call in the claim, because they change how you sequence the work.