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Don't Look Now, But the New 2023 8th Edition of the Florida Building Code is Already Taking Form - April 2022 Thu, Apr 07, 2022 Recently I was told of an apartment reroof project with multiple buildings where the contractor may be faced with reroofing them again. For many of us, this is one of the worst possible situations we can imagine. For the contractor, who would need th... Read More

Irony Abounds as Florida's Building Codes, Legislation and Insurance Company Policies Converge - March 2022 Wed, Mar 16, 2022 You can’t read a newspaper or tune into any news source that covers Florida without the “property insurance crises” being significantly featured. “Free Roofs,” “Unscrupulous Roofers,” “Soaring Property Insurance Premiums,” and “Insurer Insolvencies” ... Read More

When Reroofing, the Choice to Recover or Replace May Not Be Yours - February 2022 Thu, Mar 03, 2022 For many years, when a roofing contractor referred to a reroof it was understood that this meant to remove the old roof and then reroof the building. As the industry has transitioned to more recovering of existing roofs, the definition in the code wa... Read More

What is the Required R-Value for Insulation When Reroofing? - January 2022 Sun, Jan 30, 2022 This question comes up often, especially when a contractor is dealing with replacing rigid insulation that makes up part of the roof assembly in low slope roofing. Read More

FRSA Tile Underlayment Testing Confirms Concerns - October 2021 Tue, Nov 30, 2021 In the May 2021 edition of Florida Roofing magazine, I wrote an article titled Florida May Have a Flaw in Our Roofing Code Armor. The article went into some detail about a possible problem with tile underlayment consisting of a nailed D226 #30 with a... Read More

Convention and Industry Updates - September 2021 Mon, Nov 22, 2021 Senate Bill 76, Now Florida Statute 489.147 As we prepared for this year’s Convention, we received word that a preliminary injunction had been granted dealing with specific language from SB 76. Read More

SB 76 Misinformation Causes Roofing Contractors Anxiety - August 2021 Sun, Aug 15, 2021 If you are reading this article, you have probably heard about SB 76, which made some changes to the Florida statutes that regulate property insurance. Read More

Florida May Have a Flaw in its Roofing Code Armor - May 2021 Wed, May 05, 2021 During the FRSA-TRI Florida High Wind Concrete and Clay Tile Manual Review Committee meetings that started in 2018 and ran into 2020, an issue that was widely discussed concerned the load path required for roof coverings to resist uplift pressures an... Read More

Zones, Uplift Pressures and Demonstrating Compliance - March 2021 Sun, Mar 07, 2021 What Do I Need to Know and Where Do I Find It? Read More

BUR: Time-Tested Roof Systems with New Relevance - November 2020 Wed, Nov 11, 2020 The terms “sustainability,” “efficiency” and “green” (good for the environment) are very often used in our industry these days. The color of the roof can seem to be more important than how well it keeps water out or resists wind uplift and, just as i... Read More

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