Tile
The Miami signature and the most misunderstood system in the city. What you are buying in a tile re-roof is the deck fastening, the underlayment and the flashing — the tile is the part that survives.
Miami roofing services
Roofing services in Miami, Florida
Roofing in Miami means four broad systems across a very mixed building stock: concrete and clay tile on houses, flat and low-slope membrane on commercial and multi-family buildings, standing-seam metal, and repair work on all three. Miami sits in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which covers Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
- Founded
- 1980
- Counties served
- 6
- Florida offices
- 2
The building stock
Four roofs, one city
Miami does not have a typical roof. Within a few miles you will find single-family tile, mid-century flat-roofed houses, small commercial buildings with modified bitumen, warehouses with single-ply membrane, and condominium towers whose roof is mostly mechanical equipment. Each of those is a different trade problem with a different failure mode, and a contractor who only really does one of them will try to sell you that one.
The other constant is the climate. Ultraviolet exposure and heat work on every roof here all year; heavy, wind-driven rain tests every flashing and every termination; and salt-laden air, strongest near the bay and the ocean, corrodes the metal in the assembly before it touches the covering. Those three between them explain most Miami roof failures.
For the full catalog of services, see South Florida roofing services.
What we install
Systems we work on in Miami
Membrane
Modified bitumen and single-ply membrane on commercial, multi-family and mid-century residential roofs. Water sits rather than runs, and drains, seams and terminations decide the outcome.
Metal
Concealed fasteners and raised seams — the longest-lived common system and the best answer to salt exposure, provided the deck under it is true.
Repair
Water travels along framing before it drops, so the stain is rarely under the hole. Finding the entry point is the work; the patch is the easy half.
Residential or commercial
Two different projects
A house re-roof is disruptive for a week and then it is done. A commercial or condominium roof is a project management exercise: the building stays open, no section can be left uncovered overnight, equipment and access have to be coordinated, and residents or tenants need a schedule they can plan around. The roofing is comparable; everything around it is not.
Start from residential roofing if it is a house, or commercial roofing if it is a building with tenants. Examples of both are in the project portfolio.
Questions
Miami roofing FAQ
What does the High Velocity Hurricane Zone mean for my roof?
The HVHZ is defined in the Florida Building Code by county boundary and consists of Broward and Miami-Dade — those two and nothing else. It is the strictest roofing regime in the state, and in practice it means an HVHZ-approved product is required, typically evidenced by a Notice of Acceptance from the Miami-Dade Product Control Section. Miami-Dade contains thirty-four municipalities, each with its own building official, while the county itself handles unincorporated areas — identified by folio numbers beginning “30”. The department that issues your permit is who to confirm the specifics with.
My tile roof looks fine but it leaks. Why?
Because on a tile roof the tile is not the waterproofing. Clay and concrete tile shrug off sunlight and can look presentable for decades while the underlayment bonded to the deck beneath them ages out. A roof with no broken tiles that leaks after wind-driven rain is the textbook case, and the fix is a full system replacement, not a tile swap.
Do you work on commercial buildings as well as houses?
Yes, and in Miami the commercial and multi-family side is a large part of the work: modified bitumen and single-ply membrane, restoration coatings where a roof is genuinely a candidate, and phased replacement over buildings that stay occupied. See the commercial roofing page for how those projects are staged.
How long does a roof last in Miami?
It depends far more on the underlayment, the flashing and the attic ventilation than on the covering you can see. As a general ranking, standing-seam metal outlasts tile, tile outlasts shingle, and all three are shortened by heat, ultraviolet exposure, salt and a decade of skipped maintenance. The honest answer for a specific roof comes from getting on it.
Where is your Miami office?
Perkins Roofing has two Florida offices, and the Miami one is the base for Miami-Dade and Broward. The address, phone number and map link are on the Miami office page — this page is about the work, that page is about where we are.
Choosing between quotes rather than choosing a system? Read how to evaluate a Miami roofing contractor. Looking for the office address? That is the Miami office page.
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Tile, membrane or metal — the answer starts with what the assembly under it is doing.