Where JM Roofing Works: North-East and North-Central Florida

Palatka is the county seat and about 15 minutes up US 17 from our base. It is home ground: the old houses near the St. Johns riverfront, the block houses south of Crill Avenue, and the lake country out toward Interlachen. Metal roofs are common on the river and lake houses here, and we put on a lot of them.

Palm Coast sits on the Atlantic side of Flagler County, and salt air changes what a roof needs. On the saltwater canal streets we talk about aluminum panels and coastal finishes. Inland, the 1980s and 1990s subdivisions with screened pool enclosures are mostly on a second or third shingle roof.

Daytona Beach has beachside homes living in salt spray and mainland neighborhoods full of concrete block houses from the 1950s onward, which take a metal roof well. DeLand, the county seat and home to Stetson University, mixes a historic downtown of older frame houses with newer subdivisions on its edges. Tri County Metals has a DeLand location, so panels do not travel far.

St. Augustine is the oldest city in the country, and its historic district has review rules on what a roof can look like. Outside downtown, the subdivisions off State Road 16 and 207 and the beach homes on Anastasia Island are a different job: newer decks, open wind exposure, and salt within a few miles of the ocean.

Jacksonville is the northern edge of our territory and the biggest city in it. We take work across Mandarin, the Southside, the Westside and out to the beaches, on everything from 1920s Riverside bungalows to 2000s subdivisions with long, cut-up rooflines.

Ocala is horse country west of the Ocala National Forest. Barns and farmhouses out there have carried metal roofs for generations, and the ranch houses in town and the subdivisions off State Road 200 are following.

Lake City is the far west end of where we go, out where I-75 meets I-10. It is a rural county with plenty of manufactured and modular homes, farm buildings and older frame houses on big lots, and a long metal panel on a simple gable is the roof most people there ask for first.