Roofing in Fort Myers Shores - Written Price, Workmanship Warranty

Fast, Reliable Roofing Across Fort Myers Shores

Roof replacement in Fort Myers Shores typically runs $8,000 to $20,000, while roof repair lands between $400 and $1,800 depending on the damage. If you’re off Bayshore Road or down a side street near the Orange River, we can usually get a crew out to look within a day or two, and the estimate is free. You’re dealing with wind-driven rain, river backflow moisture, and homes built before today’s wind-load codes existed, so a roofer who knows Lee County’s permitting quirks matters more here than in most of Southwest Florida. Call (877) 610-1318 and ask for Tom Barrett directly.

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Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Fort Myers Shores’s Preferred Roofing Company

We’ve spent 29 years working in Lee County, and Fort Myers Shores keeps us honest. The homes here are modest concrete block ranches from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and almost all of them sit in a flood plain. That combination creates roofing problems you won’t find in newer subdivisions. When a homeowner on McDaniel Drive calls about a leak, we know to check whether the original truss tails rotted from decades of humid river air before we price a shingle swap.

Tom Barrett’s name and license number are published and verifiable. That’s not a marketing line. You can look it up before you sign anything, and we’d prefer you did. A live person answers our phone 24/7, so when a storm rolls through in August and you have water coming through the ceiling at 9 p.m., you’re not leaving a voicemail for an out-of-state call center. You get a person who knows the difference between a post-Ian repair and a full substantial-damage rebuild.

We pull permits through Lee County on every eligible job, and the inspector signs off before we call it done. In Fort Myers Shores, that matters in a way it doesn’t in incorporated cities. More on that below. The short version: a contractor who worked Fort Myers proper before 2023 can misprice your roof by missing the county’s stricter flood-zone rules. We don’t.

Our Roofing Services in Fort Myers Shores

Roof Replacement & Installation

A full re-roof on a Fort Myers Shores ranch home usually runs $8,000 to $20,000, depending on square footage, tear-off disposal, and whether the sheathing underneath is still sound. On many of these older homes, it isn’t. We write the scope so you know before we start whether we’re replacing just the shingles or the decking, truss blocking, and underlayment too. The permit gets pulled through Lee County before the first nail moves.

Standing Seam Metal Roof

Metal roofing in Fort Myers Shores costs $15,000 to $40,000 on a typical home, and standing seam is the version we recommend most often here. The Orange River corridor gets pounded by wind-driven rain every hurricane season, and standing seam sheds water better than anything else we install. It also handles the heat without the granular loss you see on asphalt shingles after a few brutal southwest Florida summers. The higher upfront cost buys decades you won’t spend thinking about leaks.

Roof Repair

Roof repair in Fort Myers Shores runs $400 to $1,800 for most jobs, whether it’s a missing ridge cap, a punctured valley, or flashing that pulled away from the chimney during the last storm. Here’s the thing we tell every customer: on a 1960s home that took Ian’s wind and water, a “small repair” sometimes uncovers damage that changes the whole picture. We photograph everything we find and put any new work on a written change order before we touch it. No surprises at the end.

Emergency & Storm Damage

When a storm comes through Fort Myers Shores, we respond to tarp and emergency repair calls across the 33905 footprint, from the riverfront streets up to the neighborhoods past Palm Beach Boulevard. We carry peel-and-stick underlayment and commercial-grade tarps on the trucks, so we can stabilize a roof the same day we look at it. If the damage crosses into Lee County’s substantial-damage threshold, we’ll tell you before you spend money on a repair that won’t pass inspection.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Myers Shores

We install materials you can look up, not mystery brands off a van. On Fort Myers Shores roofs we work with GAF and CertainTeed shingle systems and premium standing seam metal profiles. When tile is the job, we match barrel tile profiles common to 1960s Florida ranches, often sourcing through same suppliers that have stocked Lee County roofs for decades. Having a local distributor means less waiting on backordered materials and faster turnaround when you’ve got sheathing exposed to afternoon storms.

Common Roofing Problems We See in Fort Myers Shores Homes

Rooftops here fail for predictable reasons. After enough jobs along the Orange River and the side streets off Bayshore Road, the patterns are clear.

• Rotted truss tails on 1960s ranch homes. The original framing on these concrete block houses wasn’t built for four decades of tropical humidity. When we lift shingles, we regularly find truss ends that have turned soft, and new shingles on rotted framing just means a bigger problem in the next storm.
• Trapped moisture under old tile roofs. River backflow flooding after Ian soaked roofing crews less familiar with this area left underlayment in place and new tile over a wet deck. We’ve pulled tile off Fort Myers Shores homes and found the sheathing still damp a year after the storm. That’s mold waiting for year one.
• Substantial-damage repair jobs that aren’t. A homeowner gets a $1,200 leak patch, then finds out the county says the home crossed the 50% damage threshold, and now the whole structure needs elevation. We assess this before quoting so you’re not paying for work that gets torn out.
• Wind-load undersized framing under new shingles. Original 1960s trusses often don’t meet current wind-load requirements. Reroofing without upgrading the framing means your new roof is only as strong as the old wood holding it up.

Pricing for Roofing in Fort Myers Shores, FL

One Thing About Fort Myers Shores Roofs Most Contractors Get Wrong

Fort Myers Shores is unincorporated, which means every roofing permit pulls through Lee County, not the City of Fort Myers. That distinction stopped being academic after September 2022. Hurricane Ian hit this community directly, and Lee County responded by adopting stricter substantial-improvement thresholds. Here’s what that means for your roof: if your home was damaged beyond 50% of its pre-storm assessed value, any work we do can trigger full flood-zone compliance, including raising the entire structure two to four feet. A simple reroof becomes an elevation project. Contractors who quote from across the bridge without checking the county’s current BFE requirements miss this constantly, and the homeowner finds out when the inspector stops the job. We check the threshold before we quote. That’s the whole difference.

We saw this play out on a block of 1960s concrete block ranch homes along the Orange River. A homeowner called us for what looked like a simple re-roof after wind-driven rain. Once we lifted the old shingles, we found the original sheathing had rotted around the truss tails and the garage beam was undersized for the new tile the homeowner wanted. We wrote a change order for pressure-treated blocking, a beefed-up load-bearing header, and full peel-and-stick underlayment before reinstalling the barrel tile, then walked the Lee County inspector through the work before we closed the roof. That’s how we handle older Fort Myers Shores homes: inspection first, allowances written into the contract, and any surprise priced and approved in writing before we touch it.

We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Myers Shores

Our Roofing team works across Lee County, so if you’re in Fort Myers Shores or just down the road in Gateway, North Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, or Fort Myers proper, the same crew and the same written-change-order promise apply. The county rules don’t change; we just know the drive.

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