ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Roof Replacement in Orlando, Checked Against Florida's Public License Records

Tell us what the roof is doing and how old it is, roughly. We call you back in five minutes and put you in front of an Orlando roofing professional whose license record we already pulled from the state’s public database. You do not dial anyone, and you do not pay us.

No phone number to dial. Fill out the form and we call you.

A replacement is not the only honest answer

Some roofs are past the point where patching them is fair to you. Some are not. The difference is worth money and it is not something a website can settle, but you can tell in about thirty seconds which conversation you are probably in, and starting in the right one saves you the trip.

Roof repair

One area came apart, usually after one storm, and the rest of the roof is intact

Roof leak repair

Water is coming into the house right now, staining a ceiling or dripping into a room

Roof inspection

What you actually need is the roof's condition written down, for a sale, a closing, or paperwork somebody handed you

Failure showing up in more than one place at once, an old roof at the end of its run, or damage too broad for anyone to patch honestly — you are on the right page, keep reading

If two of those sound like your house, say both on the form. Nobody is holding you to the box you tick, and the replacement conversation is a slow one on purpose. It should be.

What we check before a roofer gets your job

Anybody can print “licensed and insured” on a magnet and stick it to a truck door, and standing in your driveway looking up you have no way to tell. Florida keeps a better answer in public. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation runs a license database that anyone can search, and it is searched one professional at a time.

So that is what we do. We look up the individual whose name would be on your job, we read the record the state publishes for that person, and we read it as it stands. The lookup comes before the handoff, never after.

The method is deliberately narrow, and on a job this size it is worth being exact about what it is not. We do not grade the roofer. We do not speak for the trade as a whole. We do not treat four different trades as one thing. We tell you what the record says, and we do not tell you a record exists when it does not.

You can run the same search yourself, and before signing anything for a whole roof you probably should. That is what a public record is for. We run it every time so that it is already done by the time you are talking to someone.

What is already up there

What is on the roof right now? Asphalt shingle, metal, concrete tile, or you have never had a reason to look. That is the question this section exists to ask, and it is the only one we are asking here.

We are not going to tell you which one to buy. We do not sell material, we have nothing to gain from the answer, and the honest version of that decision belongs to a conversation with somebody who has been up there and looked at your house instead of a category of houses.

What we ask is narrower and easier. What is on the roof now, and have you started thinking about what goes back on. “I have no idea, it looks like every other roof on the street” is a real answer and a useful one. So is “the same thing that is there now, I just want it to stop being a problem.”

Asphalt shingle roof surface on a Florida home

The questions worth asking before you sign anything

A roof replacement is one of the largest things most people ever have done to their house. That is why we put the license lookup at the front of this page instead of in a footnote under it.

It is also why the questions below are worth asking out loud, of anyone you talk to, including anyone we ever put in front of you. None of them are adversarial and none of them are clever.

– Whose license is this job being done under, and what name is on that record? A name you can look up yourself is worth more than a logo you cannot. – Who is physically going to be on the roof, and does that answer change halfway through the job? – What happens to the old material, and who is responsible for what ends up in the yard? – What is written down, and what is only being said out loud? On a job this size the difference between the two is the whole argument later. – Is a permit or an inspection part of this, and who is handling it?

We do not grade the answers, the same way we do not grade the roofer. Asking is yours to do, and the license record is ours.

Roof of a single-story Florida house seen from above

What the callback asks about a whole roof

The form is short on purpose. The callback is where the roof actually gets described, and five minutes after you hit send is when it happens.

Expect to be asked how old the roof is, roughly, and whether it is the original one. Expect to be asked whether anybody has already been up there and what that person told you, because that changes a lot. Whether it is one roof or a roof plus a lanai, a garage, a porch or an addition that was done later. How many stories. Whether you are planning to live in the house while the work happens. Whether anyone else has a say in the decision, which on a job this size is usually somebody: a spouse, an HOA, a buyer waiting on a closing date.

Rough answers are fine everywhere. Nobody expects you to know the pitch of your own roof or the year the last one went on. “Before we bought the house” is an answer.

One thing does jump the line. If water is coming into the house right now, that is roof leak repair and it should not wait behind a replacement decision, so start there instead and come back to this page afterward.

Missing and lifted shingles on a residential roof

Free for homeowners

You do not pay CheckedCrew. Not to fill out the form, not for the callback, not for the match. What the roof itself costs is settled between you and the professional who does the work. We do not set that price, we do not quote it, and we do not take a cut of your invoice.

Where we work

CheckedCrew serves Orlando, Florida. If your property sits outside the city, put the ZIP code in the form anyway and we will tell you straight on the callback whether we can help with it.

What Orlando homeowners ask before replacing a roof

We do not know, and we would be inventing it if we told you. The price comes from the professional who does the work, after that person has been on your roof and seen what is under it. Be careful with anyone who gives you a firm number for a whole roof before looking at it. What we can tell you is what our side costs, which is nothing.

Yes. The form, the callback, and the match cost you nothing. You pay the roofer for the roof.

That is not a call we make, and you should be careful with anyone who makes it from a description. It belongs to a professional who has been up there. If what you have is damage in one area with the rest of the roof intact, roof repair is the page for that, and starting there is not a downgrade.

Because it is a public record and we read it before your job goes anywhere. Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation keeps license records in a database open to anyone. We look up the individual professional, pull the record the state publishes for that person, and report back what it holds. You can search it yourself as well, and on a whole roof it is worth doing.

We are not going to invent a schedule for a roof nobody has looked at yet. That answer comes from the professional doing the work, once the roof, the material, and the season are on the table. Ask for it plainly, and ask for it in writing.

We do not handle insurance and we make no claim about how yours will treat any of this. That conversation is between you and your insurer. If what you need is the condition of the roof documented, that is roof inspection, and it is a different job from replacing it.

We call within five minutes of your form landing.

No. There is no number to dial on this site by design. You leave yours, and we call you.

Tell us about the roof

One form. A callback in five minutes. For the roof replacement, a professional whose state license record we read before your job ever reached them.