SEC 01 / About the crew
Nobody talks price until someone has walked your roof.
Martinez Roofing Miami is a roofing contractor in Miami FL doing roof repair and roof replacement on houses and commercial buildings. This page is about the people who come out and the way they work once they are up there.
SEC 02 / Who runs this
A Miami roofing outfit with one yard and one way of quoting.
The site you are on is run by Martinezroofingmiami, trading as Martinez Roofing Miami at martinezroofingmiami.de. We are a roofing contractor. Not a lead service, not a call center that sells your number to three other companies. The yard is at 2252 NW 59th St, Miami, Florida 33142, in the United States, and the trucks leave from there.
We are a family-run crew of roofers. The person who climbs your ladder to measure is a roofer, not a salesman with a tablet. That matters more than it sounds. A salesman counts squares from a satellite photo. A roofer lifts a tile, pushes on the deck with a boot heel, looks at the nail pattern on the flashing and notices the plywood is soft along the low edge where water has been sitting for two summers.
Most leaks we chase in Miami start at the flashing, not the tile. You only find that by being up there.
SEC 03 / The work
Five trades, one roof at a time.
Residential and commercial. Every job starts with a free on-roof inspection and a written quote. Full detail on each trade sits on the services page.
- RepairRoof repair and roof leak repair in Miami: tracing the leak to its source, replacing step and wall flashing, resetting slipped or cracked tile, resealing and replacing lifted shingles, patching soft deck.
- ReroofRoof replacement: tear-off to bare plywood, re-nail, rotten sheets swapped and counted, new underlayment, drip edge and flashing, then the finished surface. Permit pulled in Miami-Dade.
- FlatLow-slope roofs on homes, shops and warehouses: modified bitumen, TPO single-ply, elastomeric and silicone coatings over a sound substrate, and the drainage work that stops ponding.
- ShingleArchitectural asphalt shingles on synthetic underlayment with starter strip and ridge vent, using product that carries Miami-Dade approval.
- TileConcrete and clay tile, barrel and flat profile, set to the approved attachment system. Broken tile matched to profile and replaced.
What we do not do: gutters as a standalone job, solar panel installs, interior drywall and paint after a leak. We will tell you who to call, but we are roofers and we stay on the roof.
SEC 04 / A tear-off day
How a replacement day actually runs.
A typical single-story shingle reroof, roughly 20 to 30 squares. Tile and flat roofs run longer, and a big roof is split across days so the house is never left open overnight.
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Early morning
Truck in, tarps down
We park so the driveway stays usable if we can. Tarps go over the shrubs, the pool edge and anything under the eaves. A magnetic sweeper comes out at the end of the day, but the tarps catch most of the nails before they ever reach the grass.
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First hours
Tear-off, one section at a time
Old roofing comes off to the plywood, down the chute and into the dumpster. We strip only what we can dry in the same day. If the forecast turns, the stripped section gets underlayment before anything else gets touched.
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Deck exposed
Deck walk and sheet count
Rotten plywood is quoted per sheet, in writing, before the tear-off starts. Here is where we count. You get told the number and shown the sheets, usually with photos, before they are cut out. Then the deck gets re-nailed to the schedule the code calls for.
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Midday
Dry-in
Drip edge, synthetic or self-adhered underlayment, valley metal, then flashing at every wall, pipe and vent. Once this is down the house is watertight even if the afternoon storm shows up at 3 p.m., which in summer it usually does.
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Afternoon
Finished surface and inspections
Shingles or tile go on per the approved system. Miami-Dade permits carry their own inspection stages, and we schedule the job around them rather than covering up something an inspector still needs to see.
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Last hour
Clean-up and the walk
Sweep, magnet, dumpster closed. Then a walk around the house with you, looking up. If something bothers you, it gets said there and written down, not left for a phone call two weeks later.
SEC 05 / Turned down
Work we will lose you over.
Some jobs we would rather not get. Here is the long version of why, because a short no sounds like stubbornness.
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A second layer of shingles
An overlay is cheaper on day one, and that is the whole case for it. Underneath, the old shingles hold moisture against the deck, the new nails grab old asphalt instead of solid plywood, and a soft sheet you never found turns into a sag. Add the weight of a second layer, roughly another 200 to 250 pounds per square on architectural shingle, sitting on trusses sized for one. When the roof finally comes off, the tear-off costs double. We quote the tear-off now instead.
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Caulk sold as a repair
A bead of sealant around a pipe boot or along a wall line buys you a dry season if you are lucky. Miami sun cooks it, it shrinks, it cracks, and water finds the same path it always had. A repair means the failed part comes out: the corroded step flashing, the split boot, the cracked tile and the torn underlayment under it. Sealant has a place in a flashing detail. It is never the detail.
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A replacement price over the phone
We price a roof in squares. One square is 100 square feet of roof surface, not floor plan. A 2,000 square foot house can carry 22 squares or 30 depending on pitch, overhang and how many hips and valleys it has. Then there is the deck, which nobody can see from the street. A phone number is a guess, and a guess either gets padded or gets topped up later with change orders. Neither is fair to you.
SEC 06 / On the truck
What we keep stocked, and why it is that and not something cheaper.
Synthetic underlayment
Lighter than 30 lb felt, does not wrinkle when it gets wet, and stays intact under foot traffic while the shingles go on. Felt tears at the nail heads on a hot day.
Self-adhered membrane
Peel-and-stick for valleys, low eaves and under tile systems that call for it. It seals around each nail shank, which is exactly where a mechanically fastened sheet lets water in during a wind-driven rain.
Pre-bent drip edge and flashing
Drip edge, step flashing, counter flashing and valley metal in aluminum and galvanized steel. Bending on site works, but a crisp factory hem sheds water better than a field bend done on a tailgate.
Ring-shank nails and coil stock
Ring-shank nails resist pull-out far better than smooth shank when the deck gets re-nailed. In a hurricane zone that is the difference between a deck that stays and a sheet that leaves.
Tile adhesive foam and spare tile
Foam-set tile goes down with an approved adhesive at the paddy size the system specifies. We keep spare concrete barrel and flat tile so a repair can swap a broken piece the same visit when the profile matches.
Modified bitumen base and cap
For low-slope repairs. A granulated cap sheet holds up to UV on a Miami flat roof far longer than a bare coating over a tired membrane.
Plywood, CDX
Deck sheets ride on the truck for every tear-off. Waiting half a day for a lumber run with the roof open is how houses get wet.
SEC 07 / Weather
Roofing in Miami means working around the sky.
The climate decides the schedule more than we do. Here is how it plays out on your job.
Rainy season
Afternoon storms most days, often hard and short. We start early, strip less per day and dry in before lunch. A flat roof that holds water 48 hours after rain is not a flat roof. It is a pond with a ceiling under it, and summer is when you find out which one you have. Book an inspection the week after a heavy storm and the stains, the ponding and the wet insulation are all easy to read.
Hurricane season
When a named storm is tracking toward South Florida, no roof gets opened. Jobs in progress get dried in and strapped down. After a storm, the phone lines fill up. Photograph damage from the ground first and tarp only if it is safe.
HVHZ rules
Miami-Dade and Broward build to the High Velocity Hurricane Zone sections of the code. That means approved products, specific fastening patterns and permit inspections at set stages. It adds days. It is also why a properly built Miami roof stays on.
SEC 08 / Reaching a person
Call, write, or send the form. A roofer reads it.
Call 786-339-7285. Someone gets on the roof, measures it and sends a quote you can read line by line. The phone is picked up by whoever is in the office or off a ladder. If it rings out, leave the property address and what the roof is doing, and a roofer calls you back once they are down from the job they are on.
Email goes to [email protected] and is read on working days. Photos help: a wide shot of the roof from the street and a close shot of any ceiling stain tell us what to bring. The quote form lands in the same inbox and asks the questions we would ask on the phone.
Post and walk-ins go to 2252 NW 59th St, Miami, Florida 33142. It is a working yard, so ring ahead if you want to look at tile samples.