Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season: That tine of year.

Tropical · 2025-07-21T18:19:21.737Z

“Hurricane risk in Florida is escalating. Home insurance is harder to get.” Rising insurance costs signal the deep impacts of climate change in west Florida as communities grapple with recurring damage and costly recoveries. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/hurricane-risk-florida-escalating-flood-insurance-harder-get-rcna216843 And obligatory from the late, great Jimmy Buffett… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqH4-amR88

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A major issue in FL is all the crappy tile roofs. They perform fine in wind

Jul 21, 2025, 2:47 PM

testing up to 140mph, but are horribly frail against everything else. Namely time. An unassailable fact about concrete is it will crack. ..a lot, in a lot of places. After 10 yrs on a roof, it is the highest maintenance, most expensive pile a crap you can have on your house. Yearly maintenance you say? Yep, and when roofers are walking over the dang thing to fix it, it cracks under foot traffic. Not only that, the installation specifications are extremely precise with respect to the gaps you have to leave between tiles to allow them to expand and contract daily. Roofers rarely do it right.

If you want a roof to last a long time, standing seam metal is your friend. Or just regular ol laminate shingles, you’ll get 20 years easy unless you get hit with a cane. Insurance carriers don’t mind replacing a 25k roof, but a 75K tile roof…nah.

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Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season: That tine of year.

A major issue in FL is all the crappy tile roofs. They perform fine in wind

Thats true but water damage is also taking its toll

Yes, flooding suck butt. No argument there. Costly.***

Not sure I agree, crappy roofs are made of shingles in FL

Concrete tile roofs are supposed to be 50 yr roofs, but they arent. Its like

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