If it is coming through the ceiling right now, start with the form. We call you back in five minutes and put you in front of an Orlando roofer 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.
What follows is ordinary damage control. It is not a repair, and none of it asks you to go outside.
Move what is under it. Furniture, rugs, anything with a cord. Water runs along a joist before it drops, so give yourself more room than the drip seems to need.
Put something wide under the drip, not something tall. A bucket catches the water and throws half of it back out; a bucket standing inside a shallow tub or a storage bin catches both.
Kill the power to anything wet. If water is near a light fixture, a ceiling fan, a smoke detector or an outlet, turn that circuit off at the breaker and leave it off until someone has looked at it.
Look at the ceiling itself. A spot that is bulging, sagging, or gone soft is drywall holding water, and drywall holding water tends to let go all at once. One way to handle it is to let it out on purpose: a small hole at the lowest point of the bulge, bucket underneath, so the water leaves where you chose instead of where it decides. If that is not something you want to do, do not do it. Keep everyone out from under it and say so when we call.
Write down when it drips. Only in hard rain? Only after it has been raining a while? Only when the wind comes from one side? Did it start after one particular storm? That is what we will ask you on the callback, and it is the part nobody remembers an hour later.
Take photos before you clean anything up. The stain, the ceiling, the room, the puddle.
Stay off the roof. A wet roof in weather is how people get hurt, and a tarp thrown on badly moves the water somewhere worse instead of stopping it. That is work for someone with the footing and the equipment for it.
Roofing gets described with the same handful of words no matter what is actually wrong, and the split that matters here is simple. This page is roof leak repair: water is getting inside the house. If nothing is getting inside and the problem is the roof itself, that is a different conversation with a different urgency, and it has its own page.
Shingles gone after a storm, a lifted ridge, something visibly wrong from the driveway, and nothing coming inside
A roof at the end of its life, or leaks turning up in more than one place at once
A sale, a closing, or a written report on the roof's condition
Water inside the house, during or right after rain — you are in the right place. Keep reading.
If you are not sure which of those you have, put it on the form the way you would say it out loud. Sorting that out is part of what the callback is for.
The water almost never gets in directly above where it lands. It comes through the roof at one point, runs along the underside of the deck or down a rafter, and drops at the first thing that stops it. That is why the stain in your hallway does not tell anybody which part of the roof failed, and why finding it is most of the job.
What gets looked at first is everywhere the roof is interrupted, because that is where roofs leak: pipe boots and vents, the flashing around a chimney or a skylight, the valleys where two slopes meet, and the line where the roof runs into a wall. After that comes the field itself — shingles lifted or missing, fasteners backing out, and whatever somebody patched the last time.
Three things we will ask you on the callback: which room the water shows up in, whether it only happens in hard wind-driven rain, and roughly how old the roof is. Approximate is fine, and we are not asking you to go find paperwork while there is a bucket on the floor.
One honest caveat. Not every ceiling leak is the roof. An air handler’s condensate line, a bathroom on the floor above, or ductwork sweating in an attic all leave the same brown ring, and the tell is usually that it drips when it has not rained. Water turning up inside the house with no weather behind it is leak detection, and that is the page for it.
Whether your roof gets patched or replaced is a call the roofer makes after being on it, not one you should be making from the floor with a flashlight. If the answer turns out to be the whole roof, roof replacement is where that conversation goes.
Anybody can print “licensed and insured” on the side of a truck, and standing in your driveway with water coming through the ceiling you have no way to tell. Florida keeps the real answer in public. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation runs a license database that anyone can search.
So we look. We pull the record the state publishes for that one professional, we read it as it stands, and we do it before your job leaves our hands, never after.
A leak is exactly when that step gets skipped. When water is coming in, the pull is to hand the house to whoever answers first and sort out who they are later. The lookup coming before the handoff is the whole reason this is our job instead of yours.
The method is deliberately narrow. We do not grade the roofer, we do not speak for the trade as a whole, and 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.
You do not pay CheckedCrew. Not to fill out the form, not for the callback, not for the match. What the roofing work 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 your invoice.
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.
We do not know, and we would be making it up if we told you. What a leak costs depends on where the water is actually getting in, and nobody can see that from a phone call. The number comes from the professional who does the work, after that person has been on the roof. 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 roofing.
We call within five minutes of your form landing.
That is theirs to answer, not ours, and we are not going to put a number on it for them. What we commit to is the callback in five minutes and being straight with you on it about where things stand.
A bulge is drywall holding water, and it usually lets go all at once rather than politely. One way to handle it is to release it on purpose: a small hole at the lowest point, bucket underneath, so the water comes out where you decided. If you would rather not, keep everyone out from under it and say so when we call.
It is normal, and it does not mean the leak got worse. Saturated decking and insulation hold water and release it slowly long after the sky clears. It also does not mean anything is fixed.
Because it is a public record and we read it before we hand over your job. Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation keeps license records in a database open to anyone. We pull the record for that individual professional and report back what the state holds. You can search it yourself as well.
Not quite, and the difference is where the water is. If it is coming inside, you are on the right page. If nothing is coming inside and the roof itself is damaged, roof repair is the page for that one.
No. There is no number to dial on this site by design. You leave yours, and we call you.
One form. A callback in five minutes. A roofer whose state license record we read before your job ever reached them.