Areas served

The County Line Changes Your Roof

Broward and Miami-Dade are inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Palm Beach is not. That single boundary changes which products are legal on your house, how they are attached, and what a bidder has to produce.

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Photographs and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, you will get that answer.

Florida counties we are licensed to build in

HVHZ

Miami-Dade and Broward product approval, done properly

A general contractor, so the structure below is our problem too

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The code rule that decides repair vs. replace

HVHZ

Broward County

Inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Every roofing component needs a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance.

HVHZ

Fort Lauderdale

Our home city, and a genuine mix: barrel tile on the mainland, flat and low-slope on the mid-century houses near Victoria Park, and metal appearing steadily on the newer waterfront builds. Broward is HVHZ, so every product on your roof needs a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance.

HVHZ

Wilton Manors

Compact lots and a large stock of 1950s and 1960s single-storey houses, which in practice means low-slope and shallow-pitch roofs rather than tile. Those roofs rely on membrane and flashing detail, so the failures here look different from the tile failures a mile east.

HVHZ

Oakland Park

A lot of housing built either side of 1970, now reaching the point where an original underlayment has certainly been replaced once and may be due again. HVHZ rules apply, and Oakland Park permitting is generally straightforward compared with the barrier-island municipalities.

HVHZ

Pompano Beach

Two different roofing markets in one city: older single-family inland, and a wave of oceanfront towers built in the last decade. The beachfront work is almost entirely low-slope with heavy salt exposure, which shortens the life of fasteners and terminations well before the membrane.

HVHZ

Lighthouse Point

Canal-front houses with long-tenured owners, which is exactly the profile where a tile roof has looked fine for twenty-five years while the underlayment quietly reached the end of its life. Salt air on the canals is hard on exposed fasteners and metal trim.

HVHZ

Deerfield Beach

The northern edge of Broward, and the last city before the HVHZ boundary — cross into Palm Beach County a mile north and the product approval rules change entirely. Large stock of 1970s and 1980s condominium with low-slope roofs held in common by the association.

HVHZ

Coral Springs

Planned communities built largely between 1975 and 1995, which means a huge number of roofs of near-identical age reaching replacement together. Almost all are inside an HOA with architectural approval for colour and profile, so the tile selection needs signing off before it is ordered.

HVHZ

Parkland

Newer and larger houses, most built after the 2001 code overhaul, so the attachment standards are already modern. The work here is more often storm damage and premature detail failure than end-of-life replacement, and HOA architectural control is strict.

HVHZ

Sunrise

Western Broward, further from the coast, so salt exposure drops away and ultraviolet and heat become the dominant ageing factors instead. Shingle roofs inland here tend to fail from sun rather than wind, and they fail in the field rather than at the edges.

HVHZ

Plantation

Established suburban housing with substantial tree canopy, which matters more than people expect: overhanging limbs abrade tile and shingle in every wind event, and shaded roofs hold moisture and grow the dark streaking that gets mistaken for damage.

HVHZ

Davie & Southwest Ranches

Larger lots, outbuildings and a lot of metal — barns, workshops and covered structures alongside the house. Exposed-fastener metal is common here, and on those roofs the screws and washers are the maintenance item rather than the panels.

HVHZ

Weston

Almost entirely built between 1990 and 2005 to a consistent standard, inside gated communities with firm architectural rules. Roofs here are aging as a cohort, and the practical constraint is usually the association approval process rather than the roof itself.

HVHZ

Hollywood

One of the broadest ranges of roof age in the county — 1920s Lakes-area houses, mid-century flat-roofed blocks, and beachfront condominium. The historic districts add a design-review layer that governs profile and colour before code even enters the conversation.

HVHZ

Hallandale Beach

Dominated by condominium towers, which changes who the client is: the roof is common property and the decision belongs to a board with a reserve study, not to a homeowner. Low-slope membrane, heavy salt exposure, and a procurement process measured in months.

HVHZ

Dania Beach

Older housing stock close to the water and directly under the approach to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, which means noise-abatement work has left a lot of these houses with modified attic and ceiling assemblies. Worth knowing before diagnosing a leak path.

HVHZ

Miami-Dade County

The county whose product approval standard the rest of the zone is measured against. Add historic and architectural review in several of these cities.

HVHZ

Aventura

High-rise, and firmly Miami-Dade — the county whose product approval standard the rest of the HVHZ is measured against. Roof work here is association work: low-slope membrane, reserve-funded, and scheduled around a building full of residents.

HVHZ

North Miami Beach

A large stock of 1950s and 1960s houses with original flat and low-slope roofs that have been re-covered several times. Multiple layers of old membrane are common here, and they hide both the deck condition and any previous repair.

HVHZ

Miami Beach & Surfside

Salt, sun and a historic-preservation regime all at once. Art Deco and MiMo buildings carry design review that can dictate the visible roof profile, and since 2021 the building-recertification process has made structural condition a live issue on every low-slope roof over a certain age.

HVHZ

Miami & Coral Gables

Coral Gables in particular has architectural regulation older and stricter than the building code — barrel tile profile and colour are effectively prescribed, and substitutions are refused. Budget for the approved tile rather than the product a contractor happens to stock.

Outside the HVHZ

Palm Beach County

Not HVHZ. Statewide Florida Product Approval applies instead, and the design wind pressures are calculated differently. This is where a Broward roofer working north for the first time gets it wrong.

Non-HVHZ

Boca Raton

Cross the county line and the rules change: Palm Beach County is NOT in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Products here are approved under statewide Florida Product Approval rather than Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and the design wind pressures differ. A Broward roofer working here for the first time gets this wrong.

Non-HVHZ

Delray Beach

Non-HVHZ, and with a downtown historic district where the roof is visible from the street and the design guidelines say so. Older bungalows here often have metal that is worth restoring rather than replacing, which is not the advice most contractors lead with.

Non-HVHZ

Boynton Beach

A very large stock of 1980s and 1990s tile now at or past the age where original underlayment fails, spread across dozens of associations each with its own approved colour list. Non-HVHZ product approval applies, which widens the material options compared with Broward.

Non-HVHZ

West Palm Beach & Jupiter

The northern edge of our South Florida service area, non-HVHZ, and with the widest spread of housing age of any market we work in — 1920s El Cid bungalows through 2020s coastal construction. The roof questions in those two are not remotely the same conversation.

Further afield

Romco is licensed to build in all 67 Florida counties, so a project outside these markets is not out of the question — it is a scheduling and travel conversation rather than a licensing one. For a single residential roof repair a long way north, a good local roofer will usually serve you better, and we will say so.

Next step

Find out what is actually wrong with it.

An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.

Book a roof inspection (954) 807-3208