Roofing in Santa Rosa County and Pensacola
A licensed Florida roofing contractor working in Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Pace and Milton. Roofing only.
Limited time offer 4 point home inspection or wind mitigation with any new roof See what is includedWhat does LMS do in Santa Rosa County and Pensacola?
Roofing only. Roof replacement and roof repair, in Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Pace and Milton.
In this part of Florida we do roofing only. Roof replacement and roof repair. The remodeling, additions, outdoor spaces and restoration work on the rest of this site is Southwest Florida work and we do not offer it here. It is a shorter list than some contractors will give you, and it is the honest one.
The two licenses this company holds, CCC 1335152 and CRC 1334301, are Florida state certifications rather than county registrations, so they carry the same weight in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties as they do in Lee County. Contractor licensing is public record and we would rather you checked ours than took our word for it.
Who issues a roof permit in Pensacola and Santa Rosa County?
It depends on the address, and there are three different answers across these five towns. Getting this wrong is the most common reason a roof start date slips.
- Inside the Pensacola city limits: City of Pensacola Building Inspections, fifth floor of City Hall, 222 West Main Street, on 850-436-5600. The city also requires a contractor to be registered with it before pulling any permit.
- Navarre, Navarre Beach, Pace and the unincorporated county: Santa Rosa County Development Services, 6051 Old Bagdad Highway, Suite 202, Milton, on 850-981-7000. No city permit on top.
- Gulf Breeze: the Santa Rosa County permit is required, and a City of Gulf Breeze permit is required as well if the roof line changes. One permit for a straight re-roof, two if the roof changes shape.
- Milton: the county permit, and the city administers its own development code inside the city limits, so both get checked.
- A Pensacola mailing address outside the city limits: Escambia County, not the city. Those two offices are not interchangeable.
What did Hurricane Isaias do to roofs in Pensacola and Santa Rosa County?
Isaias came ashore near Destin on the evening of October 9, 2026, as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds, after peaking at Category 3 over the Gulf. West of landfall the wind was still extreme: gusts of 102 mph at Pensacola City Hall, about 116 mph on Santa Rosa Sound near Oriole Beach, and 118 mph at Jay, in the north of Santa Rosa County. Roofs were blown off in Pensacola and Milton, and by October 16 Santa Rosa County had classified more than 100 structures as destroyed and more than 400 as having major damage.
Tarps need no permit. Permanent repairs and re-roofs do, and the state of emergency has not changed that. We are pricing roofs damaged by Isaias in this area now. Hurricane Isaias roof damage covers what to do first, what the permit offices are asking for, and how to check a roofer before you sign.
Which towns we cover
- Pensacola City permits its own work, and registration with the city comes first.
- Gulf Breeze Salt from two sides, and a roof that may need two permits.
- Navarre A barrier island and a mainland, four miles and two answers apart.
- Pace Inland, no salt, and a lot of roofs reaching the same age together.
- Milton The oldest housing stock in the county, under heavy shade.
What is different about roofs on this coast?
Two things, and they pull in opposite directions depending on how far from open water the house sits.
The first is the wind standard. Escambia County publishes its own wind speed lines, and for a single-family house they put the ultimate design wind speed at 140, 150 or 160 miles an hour depending on distance from the water. Florida’s wind-borne debris region is defined as anywhere that figure reaches 140 or above, which covers effectively the whole of this coast. That decides the fastening schedule and the rating the covering has to carry. A roof specified for a milder part of the state is not a cheaper roof here. It is a roof that will not pass.
The second is salt. On the barrier islands and the Gulf Breeze peninsula, salt in the air corrodes the fasteners and the flashings long before the covering looks worn, so the roof comes off early because of metal rather than because of shingle. Twenty minutes inland at Pace or Milton that pressure is gone and the covering itself becomes the limit. Same brochure, two different service lives.
Shingle rather than tile is the common covering through this whole area, which is the clearest difference from the rest of Florida. A three-tab shingle is not a sensible choice anywhere on this coast and we do not offer it.
What the storms here have left behind
Three dates do most of the work in dating a roof in this area. Two of them are the same date sixteen years apart, and the third is this October.
Hurricane Ivan came ashore on the sixteenth of September 2004 as a major hurricane just west of Pensacola, and took out a span of the Interstate 10 bridge over Escambia Bay. Hurricane Sally came ashore on the sixteenth of September 2020, and barges adrift in the bay took out part of the Pensacola Bay Bridge.
Then Isaias came ashore near Destin on October 9, 2026. A roof put on after Ivan is now past twenty years old. A roof put on after Sally has now been through a second hurricane. And a roof that sat through all three has been loaded three times, which matters because wind damage does not always show as a missing shingle. It shows as a fastener that has worked loose and a course that lifts in the next storm rather than in that one.
Where LMS is based, plainly
We are based in Cape Coral, on the other side of the state. We would rather put that at the top of the page than have you find it out later.
The two licenses this company holds, CCC 1335152 and CRC 1334301, are Florida state certifications rather than county registrations. They carry the same weight in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties as they do in Lee County, and licensing is public record, so you can check both before you call. What a state license does not tell you is how far away the contractor sleeps, and that is a fair thing to ask about. Ask it on the phone and we will answer it straight.
Insurance and roof age in Northwest Florida
Florida carriers underwrite on roof age statewide, and an older roof is now a common reason for a non-renewal notice rather than only a higher premium. That is the same in Pensacola as it is in Cape Coral.
A wind mitigation inspection records the decking attachment, the covering rating and whether a secondary water barrier is present. A re-roof is the point at which those change, and it is the only point at which they change.
We document the work so that the inspection has something to record. We are not insurance agents and we will not tell you what a premium will do.
What we do in Santa Rosa County and Pensacola
- Roof replacement
- Emergency roof repair
- Hurricane roof damage
- Roof insurance claims
- Roof tarping
- Roof cost estimator
In this part of Florida we do roofing only. Roof replacement and roof repair. The remodeling, additions, outdoor spaces and restoration work on the rest of this site is Southwest Florida work and we do not offer it here. It is a shorter list than some contractors will give you, and it is the honest one.
Worth reading before you decide
- What drives the price The eight things that move the number, and how to compare two quotes.
- Signs a roof needs attention What to look for from the ground and from inside the house.
- Roof age and your insurance Why a carrier asks how old the roof is, and what a re-roof changes.
- How to check a contractor Verifying a license, reading a quote, and payment terms to avoid.
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