The afternoon storm came through at four, and by five there was a drip landing on the hallway floor. It stopped when the rain stopped. It will start again tomorrow at four. This site connects you by phone with an independent local roofing contractor who repairs roofs in Lee County.
The crew walks the roof and looks at the attic side before quoting anything. On a Fort Myers home, the leak is rarely where the drip is. Water gets in at a cracked tile, a lifted shingle, a rusted valley, a pipe boot that has split in the sun, or a spot where the underlayment has opened, then runs down the deck and drops at the first truss it meets.
Once the entry point is found, the fix is scoped to that area. A few tiles lifted and reset over new underlayment. A run of shingles replaced and resealed. A new boot around a vent pipe. Flashing at a wall or a chimney cut back and redone. The contractor writes down what was found and what was done, with photos.
Put a bucket under the drip and move anything that can be damaged. If the ceiling is sagging, stay out from under it and do not poke it. If the drip is near a light fixture, turn off that circuit at the panel. Take photos of the stain from below and, if you can reach the attic hatch safely, photos of the wet spot from above.
Stay off the roof. Tile breaks under foot, and a roof damaged by wind can have soft spots that do not show. If water is coming in fast during a storm, ask about a tarp when you call.
A roof with sound decking and damage in one area is a repair. That covers most wind damage after a single storm, most flashing and boot failures, and most cracked or slipped tile. A lift-and-relay of one slope, where the tile is reused over new underlayment, is still a repair in the eyes of most contractors.
A roof with soft decking in several places, shingles that crumble when lifted, or underlayment that has failed on every slope is past repair. Florida's 25 percent rule also matters. Roofs permitted before March 2009 that need more than a quarter of a section repaired in a year still have to bring the whole section up to current code, which usually means roof replacement. Newer roofs can be repaired in part.
Two roof ages dominate the county. Roofs put on after Hurricane Ian in September 2022 are new and under warranty, and a leak on one of them is usually a workmanship or flashing issue worth raising with the installer first. Roofs that came through Ian are often twenty to thirty years old. Ian's winds worked tile loose and cracked it without knocking it off, and those cracks have been letting water through for three wet seasons now.
Barrel tile from the 1990s and 2000s is often discontinued, so a contractor may need to source salvaged tile to match. Shingle roofs in Lehigh Acres, Cape Coral, and North Fort Myers lift at the edges first, on the side that faced the wind. Flat lanai roofs and low-slope additions pool water and fail at the seams rather than at a single tile.
A repair in Lee County may or may not need a permit, depending on how much of the roof is touched. The contractor knows the threshold. If the roof is due for a roof inspection for an insurer anyway, the same visit can produce the written findings.
Have the address and say whether water is coming in right now. Be ready to say what kind of roof it is, roughly how old it is, and whether the leak started with a storm. Say whether the ceiling is stained, sagging, or dripping. Call (239) 306-8745.
Standing byDescribe what you see in plain words. The call goes to an independent local roofing contractor who works your part of Lee County and decides what to look at first.
Tear-off to the deck, new underlayment, and a new roof permitted and inspected under the Florida Building Code.
Tarping and repair after wind, tornado, or hurricane damage, with photos taken before anything is covered.
A walk of the roof and attic with written findings for a sale, an insurer, or a roof that is past year fifteen.