You pull into your driveway after a long day and notice something you haven’t paid much attention to before. Your roof looks different. Dark streaks run down one side. A few patches look almost black. The roof used to have a fairly even color, but now certain areas...

The Roofing Question to Ask Before You Go Solar You’ve been thinking about solar panels for your Port St. Lucie home. Maybe you want to generate some of your own electricity, or perhaps you’ve started comparing solar proposals and are excited about the idea of putting...

Walk into an attic in Port St. Lucie on a sunny summer afternoon and one thing becomes obvious very quickly: It is hot. Really hot. For homeowners, that often leads to a simple question. Is my roof making my attic hot? The answer is more complicated than yes or no....

A homeowner in Port St. Lucie notices a small ceiling stain in April. The roof isn't actively leaking anymore. From the driveway, nothing looks particularly alarming. Summer is approaching, and replacing a roof was definitely not part of the family's plans. So the...

The first time your roof leaks, repairing it seems like the obvious choice. A contractor finds the problem, performs the repair, and life goes back to normal. Then another leak appears a year later. You repair that one too. A while later, another section of the roof...

You walk outside after a heavy Port St. Lucie rainstorm and look up at the roof. Nothing seems wrong. There are no obvious missing shingles in the yard. No tree has fallen across the house. Nothing appears to be hanging from the roof. From the driveway, everything...

There is a particular kind of roofing problem that creates more uncertainty than an obvious emergency. It is the problem that seems manageable. Maybe you noticed a small ceiling stain after a heavy rain. Perhaps a few shingles look different from the rest. Maybe a...

Start by Asking What Is Actually Known "Roof is about ten years old." That statement may be useful, but buyers should determine where the information came from. Are there records? Was the roof fully replaced or partially repaired? What material is installed? Has there...

If your roof could talk after spending August in Port St. Lucie, it would probably have a few complaints. Florida homeowners tend to think about roofs most during hurricanes, but dramatic storms are only one part of the environment a roofing system has to handle. The...

The hardest part of roof replacement isn't always choosing the new roof. Sometimes it's deciding whether you actually need one. A Palm City homeowner with one small leak may reasonably wonder why replacement should even be considered. Another homeowner may have paid...