Commercial roofing in Orlando, FL

Yes, when the association's building is a residential condominium with three or more habitable stories. Fla. Stat. 718.112(2)(g) requires a structural integrity reserve study at least every 10 years, and the roof is the first item it covers. The study is based on a visual inspection and gives each item's remaining useful life. Many Orlando homes sit in shared buildings, since only 31.6% of the city's housing units are detached houses, so ask your association's manager when the last study was done and what it said about the roof.

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Not long. Florida's building code defines positive roof drainage as a roof that drains within 48 hours of precipitation, and NRCA uses the same 48-hour line for ponding when conditions allow drying. Orlando International averages 51.45 inches of rain a year, with 23.20 inches falling from June through August alone, so a roof that holds water after one storm will often be holding more after the next. Standing water past 48 hours is a drainage problem to correct, not a feature of flat roofs.

Sometimes. Florida's code bars a recover when the existing roof is water-soaked or too deteriorated to be a base, when it already has two or more layers, when blisters have not been cut and secured, or when the old covering would serve as attachment and wind securement cannot be met. A moisture survey verified by core samples tells you which case you are in. A separate standing-seam metal system that carries its own loads may go over an existing roof. Permits for buildings in the city go through City of Orlando Permits & Inspections.