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Roof replacement in Bushnell, FL

Four of every five homes in Bushnell, 79.6 percent, were built before 2000, ahead of Florida's first statewide building code in 2002. Roof replacement in Bushnell usually means bringing an old deck up to today's rules: new nails where the code's table calls for them, a secondary water barrier, and two county inspections.

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Updated October 2026

Drone view of a single-story home mid re-roof: part of the roof stripped to white synthetic underlayment, the rest still in gray shingles, a dump trailer of debris and a pickup in the driveway.

Bushnell figures this page uses

Share of homes built before 2000
79.6%
Median year homes were built
1983
Mobile homes, share of housing units
50.4%

Local know-how

Re-roofing a Bushnell house built before the state code

Florida adopted one statewide code after Hurricane Andrew showed the local system was not enough, and it replaced local rules on March 1, 2002. A Bushnell house from 1983, the town's median year, was decked under the old system, and a re-roof is when the current code looks at that deck again.

Once the covering is off a plywood or OSB deck, Table R908.7.1.2 sets the fix. Where staples or 6d nails hold the panels, at any spacing, extra ring-shank nails go in at 6 inches or closer. Existing 8d nails already at 6 inches or closer need nothing more, and 8d nails spaced wider get filled in to 6. The added nails are at least 2-1/4 inches long with a 0.113-inch ring shank.

Then comes the secondary water barrier, required whenever a covering is removed and replaced (R908.7.2). The code accepts a fully adhered ASTM D1970 membrane, taped deck joints under an approved underlayment, or two layers of qualifying felt or synthetic. Both upgrades trace to section 553.844(3), which told the Florida Building Commission to require them on re-roofs of site-built single-family homes by October 1, 2007.

A full tear-off is required anyway if the roof already carries two or more layers, is water-soaked or too deteriorated to serve as a base, or is tile, slate or wood shake underneath (R908.3).

Permit

From permit to final inspection at Sumter County Building Services

  1. 01

    Permit

    Sumter County Building Services issues it under its Re-Roof / Roof-Over permit type. The county has run permits and inspections in Bushnell since April 1, 2025, and a re-roof needs no plans review.

  2. 02

    Notice of Commencement

    Above a set contract amount, the permit office wants a recorded copy before the first inspection, and the permit card warns that skipping it can mean paying twice for the work.

  3. 03

    Sheathing or dry-in inspection

    After the deck is re-nailed and dried in, before the new covering hides it.

  4. 04

    Final roofing inspection

    Dry-in, insulation, roof covering and flashing are checked before the permit closes.

Applications submitted on or after December 31, 2026 move to the Ninth Edition of the Florida Building Code. The county's 135 mph design wind speed criterion stays the starting point either way.

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Questions

Roof replacement in Bushnell: questions

Can My Safe Florida Home help pay for a new roof in Bushnell?

Possibly, for some site-built houses, if the program is taking applications. Section 215.5586 limits its inspections to site-built, owner-occupied single-family homes with a homestead exemption, and its matching grants, which can go toward deck attachment, a secondary water barrier, roof-to-wall connections and a new covering, add a build date before 2008. Bushnell's 1983 median fits that date, but the 50.4 percent of local housing that is mobile homes does not fit the site-built rule. The statute creates no entitlement, and the program's site did not say on October 5, 2026 whether applications were open.

Source: Fla. Stat. 215.5586.

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How long is a Sumter County re-roof permit good for in Bushnell?

Six months to get started. Under the building code, a permit becomes invalid if work does not begin within 6 months of issue, or if the work is suspended or abandoned for 6 months; work counts as in progress once it passes an inspection within 180 days. An application that sits unpursued for 180 days after filing is treated as abandoned. In Bushnell those clocks run at Sumter County Building Services, the city's permit office since April 1, 2025.

Source: 2023 FBC-Building 105.3.2 and 105.4.1 (UpCodes, unofficial transcription); City of Bushnell release.

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What does the county check at the deck inspection on a Bushnell re-roof?

The sheathing and how it is fastened, before anything covers it. The code's sheathing inspection lists roof sheathing, sheathing fasteners and the roof dry-in, done with the dry-in inspection or separately. On a Bushnell house from the 1983 median year, that is where the supplemental ring-shank nails of the re-roof table get seen: staples and 6d nails need them at no more than 6 inches apart. The final roofing inspection comes after the new covering and flashing are on.

Source: 2023 FBC-Building 110.3; FBC-Residential Table R908.7.1.2.

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