Merritt Island is the long island between the Indian River and the Banana River, and its north end is federal land: Kennedy Space Center and the wildlife refuge take everything north of the Beachline. This site covers the residential north end below that line, the streets along North Tropical Trail and North Courtenay Parkway toward the space center gate, where the housing is 1960s and 1970s block homes built for the people who worked on the other side of the fence, with 1980s and 1990s homes filling in behind them.
Both shores are open water. Roofs on the Indian River side face Titusville across the lagoon; roofs on the Banana River side face the Cape. Frances in 2004 and Matthew in 2016 came closest to the island, and Milton's eye crossed just north of it in 2024. The north end is unincorporated, so a reroof is a Brevard County permit.
This site connects north Merritt Island homeowners with an independent local roofing contractor by phone. It does not perform the work.
A 1960s block home on a canal with a leak at the flat roof over the Florida room is a roof repair to that section. A shingle roof from the 1990s on a lot facing the lagoon is a roof replacement that should at least consider metal. Any reroof here is a chance to fill in the wind-mitigation form on a house that never had one.
Permits go through Brevard County. The north end of the island is NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the launch site for every crewed American mission since 1968, and the reason the streets south of the gate were built in the first place. Launches are visible from most driveways.
Call (321) 490-0701 to be connected with a local roofing contractor serving Merritt Island.
A lifted shingle, a rusted valley, a split pipe boot, or a drip that shows up with every afternoon storm, traced to its source and fixed.
Tear-off to the deck, plank boards checked and replaced where soft, new underlayment, and a new roof permitted through the city or Brevard County.
Tarping, photos, and repair after wind off the lagoon, a fallen oak, or a named storm crossing the Space Coast opens the roof.
A walk on the roof and a look in the attic, written up with photos for a renewal letter, a home sale, or a check before June 1.
Standing-seam and exposed-fastener metal for riverfront, rural, and outbuilding roofs, specified for salt air off the Indian River.
The state wind-mitigation inspection form, and the deck nailing, straps, and secondary water barrier that earn credits on it during a reroof.
Reroofing 1960s space-boom homes: plank decking, low-slope hips, flat sections, and the code upgrades the permit requires.
What to photograph, what a contractor's written scope gives the adjuster, and how Florida's roof-claim rules work after a storm.