Start with the reason, not with the roof
Whatever put a roof inspection on your list, the reason behind it changes what the visit has to produce. Read the line that sounds like your month.
– You are buying, and the inspection has to happen inside a window somebody else set. – You are selling, and you would rather know what is up there before a buyer’s inspector tells you. – A renewal letter arrived and it asks for something about the roof. – You are applying for a new policy and were asked for paperwork before it is written. – A storm came through, the roof looks fine from the driveway, and you want that confirmed by someone who goes up. If you can already see damage from down there, roof repair is the page for that. – You have no idea which of these you are in, because the request came in language nobody explained to you.
That last one is not a worse starting point than the others. Sorting it out is a large part of what the callback is for. Say the reason on the form and the rest follows from it. That is how the right roof inspection in Orlando gets matched to the right situation instead of to a guess.
One thing that does not belong on this page: if water is coming into the house right now, stop reading and go to roof leak repair. An active leak is not a paperwork problem, and it should not wait behind a scheduling window.
What we read before an inspection reaches you
Anybody can print “licensed and insured” on the side of a truck, and standing in your driveway you have no way to tell. Florida keeps a real answer in public. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation runs a license database that anyone can search, and it holds a record for the individual professional you are about to let onto your roof.
So we look. We pull the record the state publishes for that one person, we read it as it stands, and we do it before your job leaves our hands, never after. The lookup is the step that comes first.
The method is deliberately narrow, and on a page like this one it is worth being exact about what it is and what it is not. We read the license record of one professional. We do not grade that person. We do not speak for a 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. That is what a public record is for. We run it every time so that it is already done by the time somebody is standing at your house.
What a roof inspection actually covers
A roof inspection in Orlando is a visit with a purpose attached to it. What an inspection goes over is the covering, the flashing, the penetrations, the edges, and the places where two planes meet. On a Florida house that list also takes in what this climate does to a roof: heat on the south face, wind lift at the edges, and water that found a path it was not supposed to have, which is roof leak repair territory rather than this page’s.
What the visit produces depends entirely on what you were asked for, which is why the callback keeps coming back to that question. Somebody who needs a condition report before listing a house is not asking for the same thing as somebody answering a renewal letter, even when the person on the ladder does exactly the same walk.
Three things make the visit go faster and are worth having ready. Roughly how old the roof is, or when the house was built if nobody ever told you. Whether the roof has been worked on before, and if so what was done. And whether there is attic access, because some of what matters is only visible from underneath.
If you do not know any of that, say so. Approximate is fine, and a blank answer is not a reason to put the visit off.
The 4 point inspection, and which point this page is about
A 4 point inspection is named literally. The four points are four systems in the house: the roof, the electrical, the plumbing, and the heating and cooling. It is one request that reaches across the whole building. If the phrase reached you from somebody else — an agent, a carrier, a lender, a closing — the one line you were given may be all you have to go on, and that is the situation this section is written for.
This page is about one of those four points. The roof is the part we can talk about here, and it is the part where the license record of the person doing the looking matters most, because that is the only one of the four that involves somebody walking around above your head.
So when you fill out the form, say two things: who asked you for the 4 point inspection, and whether they asked for all four points or only the roof. Those two answers change the shape of the whole job. Say them both.
If the request is for all four and you are not sure what happens to the other three, say that when you describe it. What this page covers is the roof.
Roof certification
Roof certification is the phrase for a request that is not really an opinion about the roof but a statement about it: what condition it is in, and how much service life somebody who looked at it thinks is left. Two moments where the phrase turns up are a sale and a renewal.
The practical difference between this and the rest of the page is that a certification is about the future of the roof rather than its present. A repair conversation asks what is broken, and that question belongs on roof repair rather than here. A certification conversation asks how long this roof has, which is a judgment, and judgments belong to the person who is qualified to make them.
That is exactly why the license record matters here more than anywhere else on this page. A statement about a roof is only worth what the person making it is, and that is a thing you can look up rather than take on faith. We look it up before anyone is standing on your roof forming an opinion about it.
When you fill out the form, say who asked for the roof certification and what they said they needed it for. If you were given a form, a template, or a deadline, mention that too.
Roof inspection for insurance
A roof inspection for insurance is not a different visit. It is the same walk with a different audience: somebody other than you is going to read what comes back. Renewal season, a new policy being written, a request you were asked to satisfy before anything else moves, an agent forwarding a request they did not write either.
Here is the part we will not do, and it is worth saying plainly. We do not speak for any insurance company. We do not promise what a carrier will decide, what it will accept, what it will require, or what it will do with anything that comes back from a visit. Nobody arranging an inspection can promise you that, and an offer to promise it is a reason to be careful, not a reason to relax.
What is ours to do is narrower and actually checkable. You describe the request. We call you in five minutes. The license record of the professional going up there gets read first, out of the state’s public database, and you get told what it says.
So put the request itself on the form, in the words it reached you in, along with any date attached to it. The wording matters more than your interpretation of the wording, and the callback is where the two get untangled.
If the inspection finds a problem
Sometimes the answer to a paperwork question turns out to be a roof question. That is not a failure of the visit, it is the visit working, and it changes which page you belong on.
Each of those is its own job with its own page, and you do not have to decide which one you are in before you talk to anybody. Describe what you were told and we take it from there.
Free for homeowners
You do not pay CheckedCrew. Not to fill out the form, not for the callback, not for the match. What the inspection itself costs is settled between you and the professional who does it. We do not set that price, we do not quote it, and we do not take a cut of it.
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 about roof inspections
