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Fast, Reliable Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Across North Miami
When a roof fails in North Miami, it fails fast. Salt air off Biscayne Bay eats metal flashing within a decade, afternoon squalls find every cracked tile, and hurricane season turns a missing shingle into a water-intrusion claim by morning. Winslow Windows & Doors handles shingle, tile, and metal roofing across North Miami with crews who know this housing stock, this building department, and these weather patterns. Call (863) 946-5039 and a live person answers, day or night. Ed Winslow’s name is on every job we do, from a two-story CBS off NE 125th Street to a 1950s bungalow near Keystone Point.
Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is North Miami’s Preferred Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Company
We’ve built our North Miami reputation one roof at a time, mostly on homes built between 1949 and 1972. That matters because a concrete-block-and-stucco house from 1963 has different load math than a wood-frame home built in 2005. Our crews understand what’s under the roof: the tie beams, the poured-concrete chords, the furring strips, the places where 60-year-old block accepts or rejects a fastener. Before we replace anything, we look at how the roof assembly meets the walls, because in North Miami, water that gets past the roof plane doesn’t go anywhere except into the block.
Homeowners in North Miami call us because we answer the phone and we show up when we say we will. We don’t route calls to a call center. We don’t send a sales rep who then schedules a “roof specialist” for next week. You get a background-checked, uniformed technician at your door, and you get a written line-item quote before any work begins. Our standing offers apply to every North Miami job: $40 off any repair over $200, free second opinions on written estimates, no trip charge inside the home county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
Our Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Services in North Miami
We divide work on Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing into categories that match what North Miami homes actually need. Here’s what keeps our phone ringing in this part of Miami-Dade County.
Shingle Roof Repair and Replacement
Asphalt shingle roofs on North Miami’s CBS homes run between $9,500 and $18,500 for a full replacement on a typical 1,600 to 2,400 square-foot ranch or two-story. Repair work is far less: a bundle-and-flashing repair runs $450 to $1,200, valley and ridge repairs $600 to $1,800. The salt-air factor matters here. Standard architectural shingles handle the wind, but we spec stainless ring-shank fasteners and replace all pipe boots and stack flashings with galvanized or neoprene-collared units that won’t crumble in three years. If your shingle roof is over 18 years old and you’re into annual repairs, replacement usually wins on cost per year.

Tile Roof Repair and Replacement
Concrete and clay tile roofs are common across North Miami, especially on the Spanish-revival and Mediterranean-style homes that fill neighborhoods from San Souci to the areas east of Biscayne Boulevard. Full tile replacement on a North Miami home runs $22,000 to $45,000, with repair work ranging from $650 for a cracked-tile patch to $2,800 for a re-bed of ridge and hip caps. The underlayment is the failure point here, not the tile. South Florida’s UV breaks down 30-pound felt in roughly 15 to 20 years, and once water hits the deck, you’re looking at rot on homes that rarely have true roof sheathing. We use high-temperature self-adhered underlayment rated for the Miami-Dade wind zone, and we walk every tile roof before we quote so the number you get is the number you pay.

Metal Roof Repair and Replacement
Standing-seam and 5V-crimp metal roofs are growing in North Miami because they shrug off salt air better than any other system. Full metal roof replacement on a North Miami home runs $25,000 to $52,000 depending on gauge, panel profile, and whether the existing deck needs remediation. Repairs run $550 to $2,400, with the most common being seam re-crimp, end-lap seal failures, and replacement of rusted closure strips. On homes within a quarter mile of Biscayne Bay, we recommend marine-grade fasteners and aluminum or galvalume panels instead of painted steel. The salt mist here makes bare steel look bad within five years, and once the coating fails, the panel follows.

Roof Inspections, Skylights, and Water Intrusion Diagnostics
Every North Miami roof job starts with an honest look. If a roof has five good years left, we say so. If the leak is actually a jalousie window or a rotted door pan flashing, we tell you that too. We find water intrusion with thermal imaging and moisture meters, not by guessing. Skylight replacement and re-flashing on North Miami homes runs $900 to $3,200, and we use kits rated for the HVHZ wind zone, which means they’re tested beyond what national building codes require. A leak is infuriating and expensive when ignored. A correct diagnosis costs a fraction of the wrong repair.

What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in North Miami
We install and service roofing and exterior products from manufacturers whose engineering actually holds up in South Florida. That means PGT impact-rated windows and doors, CGI impact units for HVHZ compliance, and ViewLux architectural glass for the higher-end North Miami homes where code minimums aren’t the standard. We don’t carry every brand under the sun. We carry what survives the salt, the wind, and the building department. For North Miami customers, that means parts availability and warranty support without a twelve-week wait for a specialty trim piece from a brand with no local distribution.
Common Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Problems We See in North Miami Homes
- Salt-air corrosion on flashing, fasteners, and edge metal. North Miami sits between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic. Standard galvanized flashing fails here in eight to ten years. We replace it with stainless or marine-grade aluminum and spec fasteners that won’t rust off the roof before the shingles wear out.
- Wind-driven rain penetrating aging tile underlayment. A tile roof with deteriorating felt looks fine from the street. Inside, the ceiling is staining and the insurance inspector is asking questions. On pre-1980 tile jobs in North Miami, we almost always find the underlayment more tired than the tile itself.
- Original jalousie windows and aluminum doors leaking around the roof-to-wall junction. This one surprises homeowners. The water on the ceiling isn’t from the roof at all. It’s entering through a 1960s window or sliding door with rotted pan flashing, wicking across the concrete block, and showing up at the first drywall seam. We fix the roof, yes. But we also fix the opening that’s really letting the water in.
- Non-standard rough openings on older CBS homes forcing custom sizing. Framing a new roof is straightforward. Framing new openings into 60-year-old poured concrete is not. When customers replace windows and a roof together on these older North Miami homes, the schedule gets built around the window fabrication lead times, not the roofing crew’s calendar.
Pricing for Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing in North Miami, FL
Here are realistic numbers for North Miami. A full asphalt shingle roof replacement on a typical CBS home runs $9,500 to $18,500. Tile roofs run $22,000 to $45,000. Metal roofs run $25,000 to $52,000. Repairs range from $450 to $3,200 depending on what’s failed and how much the salt air has eaten. What moves the price: roof square footage, number of penetrations (vents, skylights, plumbing stacks), the condition of the existing deck, and whether the home sits in a wind zone requiring upgraded underlayment and fastening patterns. Every quote we give in North Miami is a written line item, and the price is fixed before we order materials. Call (863) 946-5039 and we’ll measure your roof for free. No charge for the estimate, no surprises on the invoice.
What Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Costs in North Miami
Roofing isn’t the only opening-related cost North Miami homeowners face. Many of our customers are fixing the roof and the windows in the same project, especially after a wind-mitigation inspection flags original aluminum or jalousie windows. Here’s the landscape: impact windows in general run $800 to $1,500 per opening installed. Impact single-hung units run $900 to $1,800. Large or custom openings run $2,500 to $5,000. Whole-home impact packages in North Miami’s older CBS stock commonly land between $8,000 and $25,000 plus, because non-standard rough openings force custom fabrication. What drives the number on your house: opening count, wind zone, floor height, whether the frame material is aluminum or vinyl, and whether the existing rough opening can take a standard-size unit or needs a custom build. We measure every opening in person and give you one written price. Call (863) 946-5039 for a free in-home measure and written quote.
One comparison our North Miami customers ask about constantly: impact windows versus hurricane shutters. Shutters meet code, but someone has to be home to hang them, they live in a pile in the garage, and they do nothing for energy bills the other 364 days a year. Impact glass is permanent protection built into the structure, tested to pass Miami-Dade’s large-missile test without any action from the homeowner. It’s a different cost tier, but it’s a different product category. We don’t sell or install shutters. We do install impact windows and doors that are always working, even when nobody’s home to prep.
Florida Pays You Back
Here’s the incentive stack as it stands for North Miami homeowners. My Safe Florida Home offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades. Florida exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax. The federal 25C credit covers 30% of product cost on qualifying energy-efficient units, up to $600 per year. After a wind-mitigation inspection (which runs $75 to $150), many North Miami homeowners see windstorm-premium credits averaging around 25% on the windstorm portion of their policy. Those are the programs. The fine print belongs to each program and carrier, so we’ll always point you toward the current numbers without overpromising.
On ratings: every unit we spec for North Miami carries the Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval number that matches its configuration. HVHZ compliance applies throughout this wind zone. We match design pressure to the opening, period. That means a PSF rating appropriate to the elevation and exposure of your specific wall, never a generic number that looks good in a brochure. A real professional tells you what the opening needs, not what the sales sheet happens to print.
North Miami’s NOA Reality and Long-Lead Millwork: What Actually Drives the Schedule
North Miami contains some of South Florida’s densest concentrations of 1950s and 1960s CBS single-family homes still carrying original jalousie windows. Those louvered glass panes in aluminum tracks pop out with a flathead screwdriver. They provide zero hurricane resistance, and they’re almost always the first thing a wind-mitigation inspection flags. Because North Miami falls inside Miami-Dade County, every replacement window and door must hold a Miami-Dade County Notice of Acceptance (NOA), a product-approval standard more stringent than what Florida state code demands just a few miles north across the Broward County line. That means product selection and permitting here are in a different league from neighboring counties. On a 1963 CBS ranch near NE 125th Street in the Biscayne Park corridor, our crew installed PGT impact-rated casement windows with simulated divided lites after the original jalousie panes lifted out by hand. The inspector signed off only because every unit carried a Miami-Dade NOA, and our pre-ordered hardware from Therma-Tru kept the schedule on track despite a nine-week millwork queue. That’s how North Miami jobs actually go: the permit department checks the approval numbers first, and the lead time on custom millwork sets the calendar more than our crew schedule ever will.
Here’s the information most generic roofing-and-windows pages never touch. On a pre-1970 CBS home in North Miami, three things interact: Miami-Dade NOA compliance on every replacement opening, salt-air corrosion on any standard aluminum frame within a decade, and custom-millwork lead times that run four to twelve weeks depending on the product. If your contractor submits the wrong product approval to North Miami’s building department, the permit stalls, and then the whole schedule stalls, roofing and windows alike. That’s why we lock product specs before ordering anything, and why we tell homeowners the truth about lead times. Custom fabrication runs four to six weeks on most lines. We’d rather tell you that up front than promise a date that was never real.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Miami
We work daily across this corner of Miami-Dade. Our Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing in North Miami crew handles calls in Miami, Hialeah, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables on a regular basis. If you’re a few blocks over the municipal line, the same building code, the same salt air, and the same crew apply. Call (863) 946-5039 and we’ll let you know when we can be there.
Serving North Miami, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Miami area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing in North Miami
Most North Miami homeowners need a wind mitigation inspection once, before a combined roofing and window project, and the trigger is usually a Citizens Insurance renewal letter demanding proof of opening protection. The inspection itself runs $75 to $150 and documents what’s on the house: roof-to-wall connections, roof deck attachment, and opening protection. If your home still has original jalousie or single-pane aluminum windows, the inspection will flag them, and that’s the point at which a combined roof and impact window project stops being an upgrade and becomes the only path to keeping your policy. We coordinate with the inspector’s schedule. Call (863) 946-5039 and we’ll walk you through what the report will say before you pay for it.
A Miami-Dade NOA means the product has been tested and approved specifically for use in Miami-Dade’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which includes all of North Miami. A Florida Product Approval alone doesn’t meet that bar. On a 1960s CBS home, every replacement window and door must carry a Miami-Dade NOA number that North Miami’s building department can verify. If a contractor suggests a unit with only Florida Product Approval, the permit won’t pass, the inspection won’t pass, and the homeowner eats the cost of a second installation. We only spec NOA-products for this city. For an exact quote on what your openings require, call (863) 946-5039. Estimates are free.
You can’t get a true louvered-glass jalousie that passes any wind-borne-debris test, because those panes are removable by hand. What you can do is install impact-rated casement, awning, or single-hung windows with simulated divided lites and narrow sightlines that recall the 1960s character without the structural failure. PGT and CGI both offer configurations that work on the older CBS homes across North Miami. We’ve done exactly that on homes from the San Souci area to Keystone Point. The right solution depends on your wall’s rough opening and design pressure. Call (863) 946-5039 to have us measure, and we’ll show you the options.
A twelve-week lead time on a North Miami project almost always comes from custom millwork or a custom window fabrication queue, not from roofing material or crew availability. Impact windows on older CBS homes often require non-standard sizing, and that fabrication runs four to six weeks minimum. Add custom millwork details, door hardware from brands like Therma-Tru, and the permit review cycle, and the calendar fills up fast. A contractor who promises to “accelerate” your order hasn’t influenced the factory queue, they’ve either ordered stock units that may not fit your openings or they’re planning to swap for whatever’s in the warehouse. We give you the real lead time up front and lock the price in writing before anything gets ordered. Call (863) 946-5039 and we’ll give you the honest schedule for your specific openings.
The proof is a wind mitigation inspection report showing impact-rated openings installed with Miami-Dade NOA products, plus the permit and inspection records from Miami-Dade County. Citizens Insurance usually triggers this at renewal for North Miami homes with original jalousie or single-pane aluminum windows. Once the impact windows and doors are in and the final inspection passes, the mitigation report gets updated and submitted to the carrier. The approval is tied to the product numbers and the installation, not to a promise from the contractor. We handle the paperwork trail from permit to final inspection. Call (863) 946-5039 and we’ll explain what your specific policy is asking for.
Contact Winslow Windows & Doors for Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing in North Miami
You don’t need to decide today whether to replace or repair. You need a straight answer from someone who’s been on North Miami roofs. Winslow Windows & Doors has been locally owned and owner-operated since 2011. Ed Winslow’s name is on the door, and the 36500-Day Done Right Promise means if it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s a century-long standard no national chain can match. Call (863) 946-5039 for a free estimate, a free second opinion on any written estimate, or just to ask an honest question about your roof. A live person answers 24/7. The one down the road, ready when you are.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving North Miami with shingle, tile, and metal roofing, impact windows, and exterior openings since 2011.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Winslow Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.










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