Melbourne Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Mims, FL — Brevard County, population 7,336. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Mims homes and businesses.
Mims property owners near the Hotel Mims building, the Turnbull Creek lowlands count on Melbourne Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Mims. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Melbourne to every job in Mims, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 773-4812 for a free roofing estimate in Mims, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Mims, FL
On 10 September 2017, as Hurricane Irma crossed the state, a National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF2 tornado developing near Brockett Road and Hammock Road in Mims that snapped many trees and partially removed the roof from a mobile home. A separate EF1, with winds estimated at 90 to 95 mph, developed the same day near the Old Dixie Highway.
It is the only EF2 the National Weather Service has confirmed in Brevard County in the enhanced Fujita era, and it landed on the housing least able to absorb it. American Community Survey 2020-2024 figures put about 28 percent of roughly 4,253 housing units in Mims in mobile homes, with a median year built of 1988 and about 89 percent owner occupancy.
The wind record before and after says the same thing. On 4 June 2004 thunderstorm winds severely damaged two houses and three mobile homes, on 6 July 2004 several more mobile homes were damaged, and on 30 March 2011 dozens of large trees came down to the east, several onto homes, with minor structural damage to houses and outbuildings.
Mims is unincorporated at the county's northern end, so Brevard County issues and inspects the permit from Viera, roughly forty minutes south of most addresses here. That distance is a real scheduling factor, and it is one reason we prefer a dry-in that can sit safely rather than a tear-off staged around an inspection slot we cannot control.
Florida also polices who may call himself a roofer, and it is worth using here. The Brevard County contractor article bars any general, building or residential contractor certified after 1973 from acting as, holding himself out to be, or advertising himself as a roofing contractor unless he is separately certified in roofing. Ask for the roofing credential number.
Access is the other constraint. Long approaches off the Turnbull Creek lowlands, scattered parcels, soft shoulders and very little through traffic mean the delivery route and the disposal route get planned before anything else does. A pallet load that cannot reach the house is a wasted day, and out here that day costs more than it does in town.
Hail rounds out the file. Stones to 1.75 inches fell on 11 August 2004, quarter size hail was reported falling for nearly fifteen minutes on 29 September 2011 and was measured and photographed, and nickel size hail fell near Barton Street and Dover Road on 6 May 2010. Those are the dates an adjuster will look for.
About Mims, FL — and why local matters here
Mims sits in Brevard County with a population of roughly 7,336, close enough to Melbourne that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Hotel Mims building, the Turnbull Creek lowlands.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Mims properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Brevard County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Mims
Call (855) 773-4812 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Mims, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Palm Bay, FL and the rest of the Space Coast. Everything starts at the Melbourne Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Mims, FL
Melbourne Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Mims that we do in Melbourne — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Tile Roofing — The most useful fact about these roofs is that the tile is only a wearing course. What actually keeps water out of the house is the underlayment beneath it.
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Melbourne has far more low-slope roofing than its skyline suggests, because the houses built through the sixties boom nearly all grew a Florida room, a carport or a rear addition with a shallow deck tied into the main roof. Those tie-ins are where the leaks live.
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — This is where we talk you out of something we sell. Coatings are pushed hard in Florida as a cheap alternative to a reroof, and for the majority of roofs we are asked to assess here, that is exactly what they are not.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation is the part of a reroof that gets decided in ninety seconds and then affects the house for twenty years. It is also one of the few roof items an inspector will count, because intake and exhaust area is a code quantity rather than a matter of preference.
- Skylights — Skylights split into two jobs that look identical from the ground and are completely different on paper. Replacing an existing unit rides along on the roofing permit as part of the covering.
- Fascia & Soffit — Here is a piece of arithmetic nobody explains at the table. Fascia and soffit work is routinely folded into a roofing contract, and folding it in often pushes the direct contract past five thousand dollars and pulls a recorded notice of commencement into a job that did not need one.
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Popular services in Mims: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Palm Bay, FL and the Space Coast.