Older Home Roofing in Titusville, FL

The house was built in 1964 on a street where every house was built in 1964, for a family that came down for Apollo. It is concrete block, one story, with a low hip roof, a carport, and a flat-roofed Florida room out back. It is on its third roof, and the third roof is done. This site connects you by phone with an independent local roofing contractor who reroofs older homes in north Brevard County.

What the crew does first

The contractor goes into the attic before writing anything. On a space-boom house the deck is usually one-by-six or one-by-eight boards rather than plywood, laid on framing cut to older dimensions. Sixty years of heat have shrunk the boards and opened the gaps. Old leaks have darkened some. Nails from two previous reroofs have split the edges of others. The contractor photographs the underside, notes which areas will need boards replaced or overlaid, and looks at how the trusses or rafters meet the block walls.

Then the scope. It names the roofing product, prices board replacement per board or per sheet so the number is known before tear-off, says whether a plywood overlay is needed over gapped planks, and separates the flat section from the pitched roof, because they get different materials.

What to do in the next hour

Find the year of the current roof from the permit record or the closing paperwork. Look at the ceiling in every room, including the Florida room and the carport, for stains. If you can get to the attic hatch safely, take a photo of the underside of the deck with a flashlight; a contractor can tell a lot from that one picture.

Note whether the house has ever been added onto. A 1960s house with a 1980s addition has two roofs of two ages meeting at a valley, and that valley is often where the water is.

What is replaced and what is kept

The boards are kept where sound and replaced where not. The current code requires the deck to be re-nailed to modern spacing during a reroof, and gapped plank decking often needs a plywood overlay or a specific underlayment before the roof can go on. A self-adhered underlayment goes over the deck as a secondary water barrier. Roof-to-wall connections are improved with straps or clips where the code requires it.

The flat section over the Florida room gets a membrane or modified-bitumen roll roof, not shingle. A carport roof gets the same treatment if it is flat, and shingle or metal if it is pitched. All of that is roof replacement work, and a contractor who quotes it without mentioning the deck has not looked at one of these houses closely.

North Brevard notes

Titusville's population roughly quintupled during the 1960s. The city absorbed the separate towns of Whispering Hills and Indian River City, and subdivisions went up on both sides of US-1 and out toward the new interstate faster than any decade before or since. The North Brevard Historical Museum on South Washington Avenue keeps the photographs of that decade, and the streets in them are the ones being reroofed now.

The insurance side arrives here first. Florida's roof-age rules from 2022 give a roof under 15 years a pass on age alone, and an inspection showing five years of life covers older ones, but most 1990s reroofs on 1960s homes are past both. A roof inspection with written findings sometimes documents more life than the carrier assumed. When replacement is due, the reroof is also the moment a house that never qualified for a single item on the wind-mitigation form fills in three or four of them.

Calling about an older home

Have the address and the year the house was built. Say whether there is a flat section, a carport, or an addition, and whether you have seen the underside of the deck. Say what is driving the timing: a leak, a letter, or a sale. Call (321) 490-0701.