Roofing & Impact Protection
in Coral Gables

The order matters: Board approval, then the permit

In most of Miami-Dade you pull a roofing permit and go. Coral Gables adds a step in front of it: the Board of Architects has to approve exterior appearance, including roof color and tile profile, and that approval has to be in writing before the City will issue the building permit — not filed alongside it, not cleaned up afterward. A crew that pulls the permit first and shows the Board samples later is asking you to redo work the county already signed off on. We bring profile and color samples to the Board review as the first step, not the last, and the estimate accounts for the Board's meeting calendar, which does not move for anyone's schedule.

Matching the Mediterranean look — correctly

The Gables aesthetic runs on barrel and clay tile, and the Board is specifically looking at profile and color against what the historic district expects. We work in premium tile from Westlake Royal (Newpoint), and genuine clay from Ludowici where a historic clay roof needs to stay clay. Getting the sample approved is the easy part; getting the sample right the first time so the Board does not send it back is what a Gables-specific contractor is actually for.

Old roofs, modern code underneath

Plenty of Gables homes date to the 1920s streetcar-suburb build-out, which means the visible tile may be original while everything under it has to come up to current HVHZ code on a re-roof: two-ply underlayment, fastening pattern, and every flashing detail, each carrying its own Miami-Dade NOA. We document that NOA for each component as we install it, not after, so the closed permit and the Board's approved appearance both hold up when you sell the house.