Roof Tile Replacement in Pompano Beach, FL

If your tile is still made, this is the simple case. The Tile Roofing Industry Alliance (TRI) calls a repair easy when tiles can be had from the original manufacturer, from a dealer that keeps older stock, or from a maker of replica tiles that interlock with yours. Fit is rarely the problem here; color is, since a new tile hasn't faded the way the ones around it have. Buy a few extra while the profile is still made, so the next repair isn't a hunt.

Plenty of the concrete tile on South Florida roofs is no longer produced. TRI's Technical Brief #2022-003, updated November 1, 2022, lists tiles that "do not interlock" with any profile its member manufacturers now make, and the list includes Entegra Estate tile manufactured in Pompano Beach. A modern tile can't simply be slotted in beside one of these. That leaves salvaged tile of the same profile, a replica, or harvesting from your own roof. If the whole roof is eventually replaced, TRI says manufacturers will try for a close color but an exact match is "highly unlikely".

The Florida Building Code lets a roofer reuse existing or salvaged clay or concrete tile to repair a tile roof, with one condition: the salvaged tile has to be "of like kind in both material and profile." Damaged, cracked or broken tile may not be reinstalled at all. So a used tile has to be the same shape and the same material as yours, and it has to be sound. Ask where the salvaged tile comes from and how many pieces are on hand, and have one set into the roof to compare before the rest are bought.

TRI's name for this is "Harvest and Repair." When your tile is out of production and nothing interlocks with it, tiles come off an inconspicuous area that doesn't face the street and replace the broken ones that do. The harvested area is then refilled with new tile of a similar shape and, where possible, a similar color. TRI suggests taking a whole plane, hip to hip or gable to gable, because the hip and ridge caps cover the cut edges and the new field tile never has to lock into the old. Ask for any spare tiles to be left with you; TRI notes owners can keep them for later repairs.