Roofing in Daytona Beach, FL: Beachside and Mainland

The beachside neighborhoods, Ortona on its gridded streets between Halifax Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, the Seabreeze district, the estates along Peninsula Drive, are a mix of older Florida cottages, concrete block bungalows and ranch houses from the 1950s through the 1970s, and condo towers. A block house from that era usually has a low-slope hip roof, almost no overhang, and a deck that has been through several roofs already. Hurricane Matthew put a 91 mile per hour gust on the Daytona Beach airport gauge in October 2016, and the worst structural damage in Volusia County was on buildings facing the ocean. Nicole in November 2022 took seawalls and houses off the dune south of the city along the peninsula and damaged 93 structures inside Daytona Beach itself.

On a beachside roof replacement we treat the whole thing as a wind job: deck re-nailed to the Florida Building Code, peel-and-stick underlayment as a sealed secondary water barrier, drip edge and starter set against uplift, and hip and ridge fastened to the approved pattern rather than the quick one.

Cross the river and the houses get older and flatter. Midtown and the streets off Nova Road and Orange Avenue sit low, and Hurricane Ian in September 2022 dropped 17 inches of rain on Daytona Beach with 80 mile per hour wind on top of it. Water stood more than three feet deep at Nova and Orange and higher than that east of Nova Road. A roof does not stop a flood, but a flooded house with a leaking roof is worse, and the roof problems show up when the interior work starts.

The older mainland blocks between Nova Road and the Halifax are full of 1960s and 1970s block and stucco with the same low hips and the same tired shingles. Many of them are candidates for a re-cover with Tri County Metals' Ultra Rib panel, which holds a Florida Product Approval over existing shingles where the deck and the code allow it. When a repair is enough, Juan says so, and we do plenty of roof repair and leak detection on the mainland without selling anyone a new roof.

A large share of Daytona Beach roofs belong to someone who does not live under them: beachside duplexes and short-term rentals, student rentals near the colleges, single-family investment houses on the mainland. Tania runs those jobs from the office: photos of the roof before and after, a written scope, a schedule you can hand to a tenant, and the paperwork for a claim if a storm caused the damage.

Many insurers in Volusia County will not write or renew a policy on an older shingle roof. A roof inspection with a wind mitigation report is often the first step and a new roof the second. Our financing page lists the Regions Bank plans offered through EnerBank if the timing is bad.

Metal roofing makes sense on both sides of the Halifax, for different reasons. On the beachside it is the wind rating and the salt. Tri County Metals, the Florida manufacturer whose panels we install as a factory trained installer, makes a Coastal Defender aluminum panel for roofs within 1,500 feet of the coast or of salt or brackish water, which covers most of the peninsula. On the mainland it is the sun and the insurance: a standing seam or 5V steel roof in a Core Defender or Max Defender finish reflects heat off a low block house and is the roof adjusters and underwriters like to see.

Per Tri County Metals' published approvals, its panels hold Florida Product Approvals in the FL 36904 family, and most carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance too. The finishes are backed by Tri County Metals' limited paint and finish warranty. A beachside cottage usually gets a TCM-LOK or SL-LOK standing seam with hidden fasteners; a mainland rental with a simple hip gets an exposed fastener Ultra Rib that still outlasts shingles.

Daytona Beach sits at the south end of our service area. We also cover DeLand across the county and Palm Coast up the coast, and we handle storm damage restoration for all three when a season goes bad.