Metal roofing panels, rolled in Fort Myers.

Four things move the number: which panel system you pick, the gauge, how cut-up the roof is, and whether the old covering has to come off. We do not publish a price table, because a table would be wrong for most roofs. Run the calculator for your own range, or send an address and we measure it from satellite imagery.

Carriers underwrite the roof before almost anything else, and a new code-compliant metal roof with documented uplift approval is the strongest thing you can put on a Florida house. Many carriers apply wind mitigation credits for a hip roof with a sealed deck and an approved metal assembly. The premium relief rarely pays for the roof outright, but it changes the math over a fifty-year service life.

Our assemblies carry Florida Product Approval, and HVHZ assemblies carry Miami-Dade Notices of Acceptance. Ratings are issued per assembly, not per panel: clip, fastener, deck and underlayment are tested together. We publish the approval number and the tested fastener spacing with every order, so the inspector reads the same numbers you do.

The state matches $2 for every $1 you spend on approved wind mitigation work, up to $10,000, and a roof permitted before 2008 is generally where eligibility begins. The free inspection has to happen before any work starts, and the roof must be brought to code before openings are funded.

Sometimes, but rarely in Florida. Most re-roofs here need a tear-off so the deck can be inspected, re-nailed to current code and covered with new underlayment — which is also what insurance credits and the grant program expect. Metal over shingles hides exactly the problems an inspection needs to find.

PVDF holds color and gloss far longer, especially in dark colors and full sun, and it carries the longer chalk and fade warranty. SMP costs less and is honest value on barns, shops and utility buildings where fifteen-year color drift does not matter. For a house you intend to keep, PVDF is the one worth paying for.

Within roughly 1,500 feet of salt water we recommend aluminum, which does not rely on a zinc-aluminum coating to resist corrosion at cut edges. Galvalume steel is stiffer, less expensive and perfectly appropriate inland. Coastal warranties differ between the two, so we quote both and show the warranty language side by side.

Both. We manufacture panels and trim for anyone, and contractors get account terms and published price sheets. We do not install, so homeowners receive a manufacturing quote plus referrals to three installers who buy from us regularly.