Commercial Roof Replacement — Ormond Beach, FL
A full tear-off and shingle replacement on a commercial building in Ormond Beach. Before, dried in, and finished — in the order it happened.
Most of the project photos on this site are houses. This one is not. It is a commercial building in Ormond Beach — single story, multiple wings, a long covered walkway, and a roof that runs the full depth of the lot. We are not naming the property or the owner, and there is no address, no signage and no street in any of these photos. That is deliberate. Our customers’ locations are their business, not our marketing.
What we can show you is the roof, and the order the work happened in. These are phone photos taken by the crew while the job was running — no staging, no stock photography, no borrowed images.
Before: what came off
This is the end of the building where the gable wing meets the long wing. The covering was asphalt shingle, well past its service life: the courses had weathered to a uniform grey, the surface was streaked and chalked, and debris had been sitting in the valley long enough to hold moisture against the roof. The gutter line was loaded. None of that is dramatic from the ground, which is exactly the problem with commercial roofs — nobody walks them, so they age out quietly until something shows up on a ceiling tile.
The commercial version of “we’ll deal with it next year.” On a house, a failing roof announces itself in a bedroom. On a long, low commercial building with a lot of eave and a lot of penetrations, the first sign is usually a stain in a back room nobody uses, months after the water started getting in. By then you are not just buying a roof, you are buying decking and drywall too.
During: tear-off and peel-and-stick dry-in
Everything came off. No recover, no second layer laid over the first. Once the deck was open it was inspected, and anything soft, delaminated or water-damaged came out before the new system went down — which is why a straight estimate tells you decking is priced separately instead of guessed at up front.
Then the roof got dried in with peel-and-stick underlayment. That is the dark surface in the photo above, and it is worth understanding what you are looking at, because it is not shingles and it is not felt. Peel-and-stick is a self-adhered membrane: the backing comes off and the sheet bonds to the deck across its entire surface, sealing around every fastener driven through it. Loose-laid felt does not do that. On a building with this much eave line and this many pipe and vent penetrations, that bond is the layer that matters if wind ever gets under a shingle.
The discipline on a job this size is simple and non-negotiable: nothing open overnight. Whatever gets stripped in a day gets dried in the same day. Central Florida does not give you a grace period — from June through September a cell can form and arrive inside half an hour. Re-roofing through the Florida rainy season is entirely doable; it just has to be sequenced by someone who has done it before.
What went on the roof
Over the peel-and-stick, this building got the same system we put on our residential work: TAMKO Titan XT® architectural shingles, installed as a complete TAMKO system — Titan XT, TAMKO starter strip, and TAMKO hip and ridge.
Why the whole system matters. TAMKO’s 160 MPH WindGuard® extended wind warranty is not a property of the shingle in the bundle. It applies when Titan XT is installed together with TAMKO starter and TAMKO hip and ridge, to TAMKO’s High Wind Application Instructions. Swap in a generic starter strip or cut-up three-tab for ridge cap to shave a few dollars a square, and the warranty the owner thinks they bought is gone — on paper the roof still looks the same. Ask any contractor bidding your building to write the starter and the ridge cap on the proposal by name.
That combination — a sealed deck under a complete, properly installed high-wind shingle system — is why asphalt shingle remains the sensible answer for a lot of commercial property in this county. It meets the wind requirements, it is repairable section by section, and it costs a fraction of metal or tile over the same square footage. More on the materials we install and why.
After
Compare the last photo with the first one on this page. Same elevation, same green doors, same corner where the gable turns into the long wing — one old covering, one new one. The courtyard shot is the same frame as the dry-in photo above it, finished.
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Free inspection and a written estimate, with the decking, the underlayment and the starter and ridge cap itemised by name.
What is actually different about a commercial re-roof
Owners and property managers ask us this constantly, usually after getting a quote from a crew whose whole experience is subdivisions. The roof itself is not the hard part. These four things are.
- The building has to keep working. A house can be empty for three days. A commercial building has staff, tenants, clients or children in it. Which entrances, walkways and parking rows stay live on which days is a conversation that happens before the contract, not on the first morning.
- Length, not difficulty. Long single-story wings mean an enormous amount of eave, rake and ridge relative to the square footage. Pricing a commercial roof off square footage alone misses that, and so does a crew that is too small for the dry-in to keep pace with the tear-off.
- Liability on the ground. Drop zones, tarping, cordons, where the debris trailer sits so it does not block egress, and a magnet sweep at the end of every day. If the property has a courtyard, a playground or public parking, that sweep is the single most important thing we do all day.
- Permitting and documentation. A commercial re-roof carries its own submittal requirements in Ormond Beach, and every component on the roof has to show a current approval for the code edition in force. An owner should be able to read the product approvals off their own estimate.
If your building is low-slope rather than sloped — membrane, modified bitumen, or an older built-up roof — the decisions are different again: replace versus recover, ponding, drainage and the energy code all come into play. That is all on our commercial roofing page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a commercial roof have to be flat?
No, and that assumption costs building owners money. Plenty of commercial property in Volusia County — churches, schools, clinics, daycare and childcare buildings, offices converted out of older residential stock, small motels and multi-building campuses like this one — sits under a sloped shingle roof. The roof in these photos is a steep-slope asphalt shingle system on a commercial building. If your property is low-slope instead, our commercial roofing page covers membrane systems, ponding, drainage and the sealed-submittal permit process.
Can you re-roof a commercial building while we are still using it?
That is the normal case, and it is the part worth planning before anyone quotes you. The building in these photos stayed in use. What makes that work is sequencing: one section opened at a time, dried in the same day, with the staging area, the debris trailer and the drop zone moved as the work moves so entrances and parking stay usable. We walk the site with you first and agree on which doors, walkways and parking rows stay live on which days.
What actually went on this roof?
A complete TAMKO system over peel-and-stick underlayment. The old covering was torn off to the deck, the deck was inspected, self-adhered peel-and-stick underlayment was bonded directly to the wood, and TAMKO Titan XT® architectural shingles went on with TAMKO starter strip and TAMKO hip and ridge. Installing all three TAMKO components to TAMKO’s High Wind Application Instructions is what qualifies the roof for the 160 MPH WindGuard® extended wind warranty — see the materials we install.
Why peel-and-stick instead of a felt or synthetic underlayment?
Peel-and-stick is self-adhered: it bonds to the deck across its whole surface and seals around the fasteners driven through it, rather than lying loose over the wood. On a long, low building with a lot of eave line and a lot of penetrations, that is the layer doing the work if wind ever lifts a shingle. It is what we install as standard, not an add-on. More on what goes between your deck and your shingles.
How do you keep a commercial site safe while you work?
Drop zones get tarped and cordoned, the debris trailer sits where it does not block egress, ladders and staging move with the crew rather than sitting out, and the site gets blown down and magnet-swept at the end of each day. On a property with a playground, a courtyard or public parking, the end-of-day sweep is not a courtesy — it is the whole job. Here is how we protect a property while we are on it.
Does a commercial re-roof in Ormond Beach need a permit?
Yes. A re-roof is permitted work in Ormond Beach the same as anywhere else in Volusia County, and a commercial building brings its own submittal requirements. Every product on the roof also has to carry a current Florida Product Approval or a local approval for the code edition in force — the FL number on your estimate is how you check that yourself before you sign.
Can we repair part of the roof instead of replacing all of it?
Sometimes, and the deciding factor is usually how much of the roof section is involved. Florida’s 25% rule governs when repair work on an existing roof stops being a repair and has to be brought up to current code. On a multi-wing property it is applied section by section, which is why an honest inspection of each wing matters more than a single number for the whole campus.
Related reading
- Commercial roofing in Volusia County — systems, code and permitting
- Roofing contractor in Ormond Beach, FL
- More completed roofing projects across Volusia County
- Free roof inspection
- Shingles, underlayment and the systems we install
- Roof replacement — the full process
- Request a free estimate
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