Roofers in Deerwood, Jacksonville
Deerwood is the established golf course community between Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard, one of the first gated neighborhoods in Jacksonville and still one of the largest. Big custom homes, mature trees and tile roofs set it apart from the shingle subdivisions around it, and the City of Jacksonville handles permits.
What usually goes wrong on Deerwood roofs
- Concrete tile roofs from the 1980s and 1990s with felt underlayment that has reached the end of its life
- Tile cracked or slipped where installers and pressure washers have walked the roof
- Oak leaves and pine needles held behind chimneys and in dead valleys on large custom homes
- Skylight and chimney flashing on 1980s custom homes leaking at the counterflashing
- Screw-down metal on newer additions with fasteners backing out and washers dried out
Local notes from the roofers
Deerwood roofs are bigger, more complicated and older than they look. The custom homes around the Deerwood Country Club fairways were built from the 1970s through the 1990s with multiple hips, dead valleys, chimneys and skylights, and many were roofed in concrete tile that is still sound while the underlayment beneath it has failed. When a Deerwood tile roof leaks, the water usually enters at a valley, a chimney cricket or a cracked tile near a wall, travels along the felt and shows up rooms away. The shingle homes outside the gates off Baymeadows Road are 1980s and 1990s builds where the second roof is now due and pine needles keep the valleys wet. Mature oaks drop limbs onto both. An estimate here accounts for tile matching, since some original profiles are no longer made, and for the extra labor of lifting and re-laying tile around penetrations. Permits go through the City of Jacksonville, and the Deerwood association has its own architectural review for color and material. Florida insurers are more patient with tile on age than with shingle, but a documented inspection still matters at renewal.
Homes and roof types in Deerwood
Deerwood Country Club's gated golf course homes from the 1970s through the 2000s, many under concrete tile or heavy architectural shingles, surrounded by 1980s and 1990s subdivisions off Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard, and the Deerwood Park office campus along Gate Parkway with flat commercial roofs.