Roofing in Lauderhill, FL

What is on the roofs in Lauderhill

Lauderhill was founded in 1959 by builder Herbert Sadkin on dairy land, and its first houses went up among grazing cows. Inverrary was laid out as a planned urban development, with each section designed for a purpose before building began, around the Inverrary Country Club. The Northwest section followed in the late 1970s as a single-family neighborhood, so the housing mixes early homes from the city's first years, Inverrary's planned sections and late-1970s single-family streets in the Northwest.⁴

Local rules and history that affect your roof

• Lauderhill regulates roof color. Under the paint standards in Land Development Regulations Article III, Sec. 6.11, a roof that is painted or repainted may use only one color, and it must match a color already on the building.⁵
• A city paint permit is required before painting the exterior of any single-family home or duplex. Colors come from the city's Residential Color Palette, grouped into three themes: Tropical, Neutral-1 and Neutral-2. Repainting the same compliant color needs no paint permit.^5,6
• If your home is under a homeowners', condominium or maintenance association with recorded covenants, the city's paint guidelines say colors must match what those documents specify.⁵
• Sadkin first planned to call the town Sunnydale; his friend William Safire talked him into 'Lauderhill'. The Lauderhill Mall, opened in 1966, was the first enclosed air-conditioned mall in the southeastern United States.⁴
• Inverrary's East golf course hosted the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic on the PGA Tour from 1972 through 1983.^4,7

Storms that hit here

• Irma (2017). On September 10, 2017, a station in Lauderhill recorded sustained winds of 43 knots (about 49 mph) and a gust of 70 knots (about 81 mph), according to the National Hurricane Center's Irma report.⁸

What this means for a re-roof in Lauderhill

How old the houses are. The median home in Lauderhill was built in 1976; 94.8% of its 30,733 homes predate 2000 and 1.4% were built in 2010 or later. So most houses here went up before Florida’s first statewide building code took effect on March 1, 2002.^3,9,10,11

Pre-2002 wood-deck houses. When the old covering comes off, the deck gets re-nailed to current code and a secondary water barrier goes on; in the wind-borne debris region, insured homes of $300,000+ may also need roof-to-wall connections (capped at 15% of the re-roof cost).^9,10,11

Repair or replace. Replacing 25% or more of a roof section in 12 months generally means redoing the section to current code — unless that roof was built or replaced under the 2007 code or later.^10,11,12,13

Product approval. In the HVHZ every roofing component needs a current product approval — a Miami-Dade NOA or a Florida approval listed for HVHZ use. Ask for the numbers and look them up yourself.^12,14

Roof age and insurance. An insurer can’t refuse a policy just because the roof is under 15 years old. If it is 15 or older, you can get an inspection first; at least 5 years of remaining life means age alone isn’t grounds to refuse.¹⁵