Roofing contractor in Clermont, FL for roofs turning 20

Florida licenses roofers two ways. A registered contractor may work only in the local jurisdictions that registered them. A certified contractor is licensed by the state and may work anywhere in Florida. Pro Specialty Services holds state certifications as a roofing contractor (CCC1335465 and CCC1332012), a general contractor (CGC1538852) and a residential contractor (CRC1332909). All four are searchable on the Department of Business and Professional Regulation site, and we would rather you checked than took our word.

In Clermont that distinction has a practical edge. Part of our service area is inside the city limits and the rest, including all of Four Corners, is unincorporated Lake County. A certified license covers both without a second registration. The general and residential licenses matter when a leak has rotted a fascia run, a soffit or a section of wall sheathing, because the same company can rebuild the wood instead of handing you to a second contractor.

We carry liability insurance on every job and send the certificate with the estimate. Unlicensed roofing offers multiply after every named storm; the how to choose a roofer in Clermont guide has the twenty-minute checklist for verifying any roofer, including us.

Pro Specialty Services holds Florida Certified Roofing Contractor license CCC1335465, and that number is the fastest way to check us: search it at myfloridalicense.com for the status, then search the company in the City of Clermont's eTRAKiT permit portal or Lake County's permit portal in Tavares for the permits pulled under it, and on Sunbiz for the corporation behind it. The about Pro Specialty Services page has the owner, the four licenses, the two named guarantees and what we will not do, and the Clermont roof permits guide shows where each permit record lives, so you can verify the contractor before you book the inspection.

A Clermont address does not tell you who issues your roofing permit. The parcel does.

• Inside the city limits, which covers downtown and most of 34711: City of Clermont Building Services at City Hall, 685 W Montrose St, Clermont 34711. Main line (352) 394-4081, Building Services (352) 241-7315. Re-roof permits are issued over the counter through the city's eTRAKiT portal. The city charges six cents per square foot with a $78 minimum, requires Florida Product Approval numbers for every component, and requires a notarized Re-Roof Affidavit with photographs of the sheathing fastening, underlayment, drip edge, starter and flashing before the final inspection.
• Unincorporated Lake County, which includes Four Corners and all of 34714 plus pockets of 34711 and 34715: Lake County Office of Building Services, 315 W Main St, Tavares 32778, (352) 343-9653. Residential re-roofs are auto-issued online, a notarized re-roof affidavit is filed at final, and detached single-family homes built before March 1, 2002 must have the roof sheathing re-nailed with 8d nails at six inches on center.

Either way, a job over $5,000 needs a Notice of Commencement recorded before the first inspection. We are registered with both offices, pull the permit in our name, photograph the stages each office wants to see, and schedule the final. The Clermont neighborhoods we serve page lists which communities are usually which, the roof permits guide covers both offices in full, and we confirm the jurisdiction on the property appraiser record before filing anything.

You call the number on this page or book a window online. We confirm, usually within 48 hours on weekdays, and active leaks go ahead of routine visits. On the day, one of us walks the roof when the pitch and surface allow it; on a wet tile roof or a steep two-story in Legends we work from the ladder, the attic and binoculars rather than put boot prints on it.

We photograph every penetration, valley, wall flashing, skylight and soft spot, check the attic side of the decking for staining and daylight, and look at gutters, soffit and fascia from the ground. Tell us anything odd you have noticed: a musty closet, a dark line on the lanai ceiling, granules at the downspout, a stain that only appears after a west wind. Those clues point at the entry.

1. Nothing needs doing. It happens often, and the summary says so.
2. A repair will hold. You get a written repair price, the scope spelled out, and a 1-year workmanship warranty on the repaired area.
3. The roof is done. You get a written replacement price with the decking terms in the contract, a workmanship warranty of up to 10 years, and a note on financing if you want to see it.

No pitch at the door and no obligation. If your community has an architectural review committee, we pull its guidelines from the management office and prepare the submission; the HOA roof approval guide explains what goes in it. If you need a four-point or a wind mitigation inspection for an insurance letter, those are separate paid reports and the free roof inspection in Clermont page explains the difference so you order the right one.

Clermont searchers ask the price out loud, so here is how we answer it. We do not quote from satellite photos, because the biggest variables are invisible from above: the condition of the decking, the number of layers, the pitch, and how close the truck can get to the eave. What we can tell you is what moves the number and where our real recent proposals landed.

• Size. Roofs are priced by the square, 100 square feet including waste. A single-story Kings Ridge villa and a two-story Hartwood Reserve house with a bonus room are not the same job.
• Pitch and access. Clermont's hills put a lot of garages below the house and a lot of pool cages behind it. Steep and hard-to-reach costs more to load and clean up.
• Layers and decking. A second layer of shingles doubles the tear-off. Rotten decking is priced per sheet in the contract before we start, and we photograph every sheet we replace.
• Material. Architectural shingle is the entry point; metal and tile cost more up front and last longer. Skylights, chimneys and solar panels that must come off and go back on are line items.

The main Pro Specialty Services site publishes the actual range of our recent full-replacement proposals, drawn from written estimates and updated when material prices move, on its roof replacement prices page. The roof replacement in Clermont page here walks through what a Clermont-specific quote includes.

Both of these are printed on a one-boot repair and on a full tile re-roof alike.

Leak-Free Promise. If our work leaks during the workmanship warranty, we are on site within 48 hours and fix it at no cost to you. No claim forms, no service fee, no trip charge. If the roof is not safe to work on within 48 hours, we tarp or dry it in first and finish when conditions allow. This covers leaks caused by our installation, not new storm damage, another contractor's work or changes you make later.

Price-Is-the-Price. The number on your contract is the number you pay. The only common change order on a re-roof is rotten decking, at a per-sheet price written into the contract before tear-off. Any other hidden-condition work needs your written approval first. No surprise dump fees, no permit add-ons, no upgrades discovered "while we were up there."

The reviews page shows every Google review of the company verbatim, under the reviewer's own name. None of them is from Clermont yet, and we say so there rather than pretend otherwise.