The builder put the same three-tab shingle on the whole block in 2004, and this spring the insurer wants to know how much life it has left. Shingle again, or metal this time? Call now and tell us what you see. An independent local roofing contractor who works south Brevard roofs can tell you which one your house needs.
Call Now — Lines OpenMost of south Brevard was built in waves. Concrete block ranches went up in Eau Gallie and Melbourne in the 1950s and 60s for the Cape's engineers. Palm Bay's grid of quarter-acre lots filled in through the 1980s and 90s. West Melbourne, Viera, and Bayside Lakes added thousands of shingle roofs between 1998 and 2008. A shingle roof here gets 15 to 20 years in the sun, less on the beachside, and the insurer's letter tends to show up right around year 15.
That letter is the most common reason people call this number. The second is a drip that started after an afternoon storm. The third is shingles in the yard the morning after a named storm. A contractor who works these roofs every week can tell which one you have in one visit: a repair, a roof with a few years left and a report that says so, or a replacement, and whether that replacement should be shingle again or metal.
A lifted shingle, a rusted pipe boot, a valley that drips in every afternoon storm, or salt-eaten flashing on a beachside roof, found and fixed.
Tear-off to the deck, re-nailing, sealed underlayment, and a new shingle or metal roof permitted through the right city or county desk.
Tarping, photos, and repair after wind, a tornado band, or a named storm lifts shingles or peels panels off a Brevard roof.
A walk on the roof and a look in the attic, written up with photos for a renewal letter, a closing, or a check before June 1.
Standing-seam and exposed-fastener metal for Space Coast homes, with the coastal-grade fasteners and trim the beachside needs.
The state OIR-B1-1802 form that records deck nailing, roof-to-wall straps, and roof shape so your insurer prices the wind risk correctly.
Standing byDescribe the roof in plain words. The call is routed to an independent local roofing contractor who works shingle, metal, and tile roofs in your part of south Brevard County.
| What happens | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| The crew walks the roof and looks in the attic before anyone quotes anything | The stain gets traced to where the water actually enters, which is usually uphill from the drip |
| Roof year is checked against the permit record, not guessed | The renewal letter gets a real date, and a roof from 2009 or later is handled differently under the repair rule |
| Beachside roofs get coastal-grade fasteners, trim, and edge metal in the scope | The metal that holds the roof down is not the first thing salt air eats |
| Deck re-nailing, sealed underlayment, and straps are documented while the roof is open | The wind-mitigation form fills in with credits your policy may not be earning today |
| Photos, measurements, and a written line-item scope on every job | You have a document for an adjuster, an HOA, or a buyer instead of a memory |
| The permit is pulled through the city or county that covers your address | Melbourne, Palm Bay, West Melbourne, the beach towns, and unincorporated Brevard each run their own desk, and the roof gets inspected under the right one |
Stay off the roof. A wet shingle roof is slick, and a metal roof is worse. Put a bucket under the drip, move furniture, and take photos of the ceiling and of the house from the ground. If water is running down a wall near an outlet, switch that circuit off. Then call. You do not need to know whether the job is a repair or a replacement. Describe what you see and the contractor sorts out the rest.
Melbourne sits on the Atlantic side of the state, outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that covers Miami-Dade and Broward, but inside a wind-borne debris region where shingle fastening, underlayment, and roof-to-wall connections are inspected items on every permit. The county publishes its own design wind speed maps, and the number for a beachside address is higher than the number for a Palm Bay address on the same map.
The storms that shaped the roofs here came in pairs and brushes. Matthew ran up the coast just offshore on October 7, 2016. Irma crossed the state on September 10 and 11, 2017, and put an EF-1 tornado through an Indialantic condo roof on its way. Ian's outer bands dropped four to six inches of rain on Palm Bay on September 28 and 29, 2022, and washed out culverts across the county. Nicole came ashore south of Vero Beach on November 10, 2022, with its eye passing over Brevard, and took the dunes with it. Milton spun up 46 tornadoes across Florida on October 9, 2024, with one confirmed in Cocoa Beach and 80 mph gusts on the beachside.
Salt air is the other thing. From Melbourne Beach to Satellite Beach the island is narrow enough that ocean spray reaches one side of a house and lagoon air the other, and fasteners, flashing, and cut panel edges corrode years ahead of the same roof in West Melbourne. That is why standing-seam metal with coastal-grade hardware has become the common replacement choice on the beachside, and why a metal roof specified for inland use does not belong there.
Inside the city limits of Melbourne, re-roofs are permitted through the City of Melbourne Building Section at City Hall on Strawbridge Avenue. Palm Bay, West Melbourne, and each of the beach towns run their own permit desks, and unincorporated addresses go through Brevard County. The area pages on this site name the right one for your address.
We make no promise about coverage, and neither should anyone else on the phone. Your adjuster decides. Florida policies are written for sudden wind damage from a storm, and they exclude wear, age, and salt corrosion. A separate hurricane deductible applies to named storms, and since January 2023 you have one year from the storm to report a new claim. Florida law also stops a carrier from dropping a policy over roof age alone while the roof is under 15 years old, or when an inspection shows five or more years of life left. What the contractor gives you is evidence: photos of every slope, measurements, the permit-record install year, and a line-item written scope, so the adjuster reads facts instead of a memory. If water is still coming in, call before the adjuster's visit; the tarp and the photos come first. The insurance claims page walks through the order of steps. Before a storm, the county's Brevard County Storm Center posts evacuation zones, sandbag sites, and shelter openings.
We serve Melbourne, Eau Gallie, Downtown Melbourne, and Lake Washington; Palm Bay and Bayside Lakes; West Melbourne and Melbourne Village; Suntree, Viera, Rockledge, and Palm Shores; Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Indialantic, and Melbourne Beach; Malabar, Grant-Valkaria, Micco, and Barefoot Bay; and Sebastian across the county line. The areas page lists every south Brevard community the contractor covers.
Call (321) 490-1097 and tell us what the roof is doing. An independent local roofing contractor answers anywhere in south Brevard County.