
Storm & Wind Damage Roof Repair
Fast inspection and repair after wind, hail, or a fallen limb.
Learn about Storm & Wind Damage Roof Repair1920s Mediterranean Revival masonry near San Marco Square, mixed with newer riverfront infill.
San Marco sits just south of the St. Johns River, a short run across the Acosta or Main Street span from Downtown Jacksonville. San Marco Square anchors the neighborhood, with the Baseball Grounds and Southbank within easy reach and San Jose bordering it to the south.
Sun, humidity, and sudden downpours work on a roof year-round, and the wrong repair speeds that wear instead of slowing it.
Roof shape matters more than wall material. A simple gable has two planes and one ridge; a house of the 1920s with dormers, a porch roof and three valleys has far more places where water changes direction. Every one of those is a joint somebody had to build by hand.
Water almost never comes in through the middle of a slope. It comes in where the surface changes: a pipe collar, a valley, a wall junction, a chimney, the edge. Those are the places somebody cut, bent and fitted metal by hand, and they are the first places a Jacksonville downpour tests.
Jacksonville's summer thunderstorms hit this low-lying riverside pocket hard, and the city's roughly $64 million San Marco drainage project targets streets here that flood in ordinary heavy rain, not just hurricanes, putting roof runoff and gutter capacity under real strain. Sandy, flat ground drains fast, but roofs don't get the same benefit. A slab-on-grade home depends entirely on the roof shedding water correctly, since there's no below-grade space to absorb a slow leak before someone notices a stain on the ceiling.
Ranges rather than a single number, because the honest figure depends on what the inspection finds. There is no charge for that inspection.
| Service | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Storm & Wind Damage Roof Repair | an estimated $900–$7500 |
| Gutter Repair & Replacement | an estimated $1200–$4800 |
| Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Guards | an estimated $175–$500 |
| Roof Replacement | an estimated $11000–$30000 |

Fast inspection and repair after wind, hail, or a fallen limb.
Learn about Storm & Wind Damage Roof Repair
Rehung where it holds, replaced where fascia has already given way.
Learn about Gutter Repair & Replacement
Cleared gutters and downspouts, plus guards that cut how often you climb up.
Learn about Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Guards
Old roof stripped to the deck, new system built back up right.
Learn about Roof ReplacementNot the covering, but it changes what the roof has to hand off. These streets sit low, and the city has a large drainage project underway aimed at flooding that happens in ordinary heavy rain rather than only in storms. A roof shedding correctly into gutters that are undersized, flat or clogged just concentrates water at the foundation faster. On a low-lying block the gutter run and where the downspouts discharge matter as much as the shingles.
Some do, and some lost it at an earlier reroof. Barrel and flat tile was original on a good number of the 1920s houses around the Square, but tile is heavy and expensive to relay, so previous owners sometimes went to shingle instead. If yours still has tile, the clay itself usually outlives the underlayment beneath it, which means the fix is often a relay rather than a replacement. If it does not, going back to tile is a framing question first.
It may change where your downspouts should discharge. Street and storm drain work alters how quickly water leaves a block, and an extension that used to run to the curb line can end up in the wrong place once the work is finished. It is worth checking after any construction near your street that runoff still lands well clear of the slab and moves away from the house rather than pooling against it.
Usually the same day, yes. Urgent jobs jump the queue here: water coming through a ceiling, a slope torn open by wind, or a limb down on the roof. Those are taken around the clock. Anything that can safely wait is booked at the standard rate instead.
Every part of Jacksonville answers to the same hurricane season, but not the same way. A crawl-space home near Springfield with an older roofline ages differently than a slab ranch off Southside Boulevard with a lower pitch and newer materials. Drainage after a heavy afternoon thunderstorm matters too, especially on blocks nearer the St. Johns River. The licensed pros we connect you with can speak to what your specific street tends to see, not just the city in general.
Call (904) 675-6349