Roofing Contractor in Cantonment, FL

Hart Roofing LLC works under Florida roofing license RC29027741. The company is fully insured, holds CertainTeed's Master Craftsman credential and has a 4.9-star rating on Google. Owner Joshua Hart brings more than two decades of roofing work, and Hart Roofing LLC has been serving the Pensacola area since 2019.

You'll deal with Joshua directly. He inspects the roof, answers your questions on the spot and writes the estimate, and none of that costs anything.

Since Cantonment isn't a city, Escambia County Building Services handles roofing permits. Its office directory places the North Office on Highway 29 at number 3470, while the county's post-storm plan calls the same building the Molino permitting office. Either name, it's one of two permanent permit counters the county runs, and the nearest one to Cantonment; call it at 850-587-5770.

Contractors file most applications in the MGO Connect portal, which takes payments and books inspections too; email and the main county line work for inspection requests as well. When a contract is for more than $5,000, state lien law says the building department must have a copy of the recorded Notice of Commencement before its first inspection.

Florida's building code has long required an entire roof, or roof section, to be brought up to current code once repairs reach a quarter of it. A 2022 change to state law, section 553.844, softened that. If the existing roof was built, repaired or replaced under the 2007 Florida Building Code or a later edition, a repair covering 25 percent or more of it only has to meet current code on the section being repaired.

That matters when a storm takes out one slope of a newer roof. Joshua checks what's there, explains whether a sectional repair makes sense, and tells you plainly when the rest of the roof is too worn to be worth saving.

Florida lets a homeowner act as their own contractor under section 489.103, but Escambia County requires owner-builders to come to a permit office in person to apply rather than file online. When Hart Roofing does the job, we handle the permit from start to finish.

The old roof comes off completely, down to the deck, so we can see the wood. The new roof goes on over synthetic underlayment with ice-and-water shield, topped with CertainTeed Landmark shingles, which offer proven wind protection when they're installed as the manufacturer specifies. The work usually takes one or two days. Would you rather have metal? We install metal roofs as well.

Nails are the last thing we deal with, on repairs and replacements alike: a magnet gets rolled across the lawn, driveway and flower beds. On a full new roof, military members, veterans and seniors usually save $500, with the exact amount tied to roof size; repairs don't carry that discount.

Not every problem needs a new roof. We repair shingle and metal roofs, from leaking pipe boots and lifted flashing to shingles that have blown off. A porch roof or other nearly flat area gets self-adhesive rolled roofing, or modified bitumen, depending on the situation. Single-family homes, townhomes and condos are all work we take on. Repair pricing isn't posted, because it depends on what Joshua finds; his written estimate is free.

Escambia County separates ordinary storm fixes from work that needs a permit. Its list of minor repairs includes emergency tarping, and it also covers swapping up to about 200 square feet of asphalt shingles when nothing underneath, sheathing or secondary water barrier, has to be fixed. Bigger emergency repairs can begin before the permit is issued; the county gives you one week from the disaster to get the application in.

After a declared disaster, the county commission can also waive permit fees for storm repairs by resolution. The permit itself is still required.

When a major storm is underway, our crew's job is covering open roofs with tarps. Once things calm down, Joshua comes by at no cost, documents the damage in pictures and hands you a written summary to pass along to your claim file. Your insurer decides what's covered.

Strong storm winds still reach Cantonment, even away from the coast. Every roof we install follows the Florida Building Code wind requirements for your address and the manufacturer's instructions, and your permit office inspects the work.

Replacement price ranges live in the Escambia County cost calculator, and the instant estimate gives a satellite-based figure in about a minute. The phones are answered weekdays from 7 in the morning until 6 in the evening, and booking the inspection costs nothing.