Most Orlando roof leaks announce themselves the same way: a tea-colored stain on the ceiling after a heavy rain. By the time you can see it, the water has been traveling for a while. It slipped past a cracked pipe boot or a lifted shingle, ran along a rafter or the underlayment, and soaked through insulation before it ever reached drywall. Orlando roof leak repair, done right, means finding that entry point, not just painting over the stain.
At Burnes Roofing Company, LLC, leak calls go to Tommy Burnes, the owner, and he is the one on your roof tracing the water. Leak detection is part of our core roof repair work in Orlando, and it is the part where experience matters most.
Any one of these is worth an inspection. In Florida’s humidity, wet wood and insulation do not dry out on their own; they rot, and they grow mold.
Water follows gravity and framing, which means the damage rarely stays where it started. A slow drip at a pipe boot can rot the decking around it, wick along a truss, saturate insulation two rooms away, and shortcut into wiring. The repair that would have taken an afternoon becomes a decking replacement plus drywall, paint and an electrician.
That is the honest reason to act on a stain early. Not because a roofer says so, but because the physics of a wet ceiling only run one direction.
Water almost never drips straight down from the hole that let it in. Tommy starts at the stain and works up-slope, checking the usual suspects first: pipe boots, flashing, valleys, ridge caps and anything bolted through the roof, like satellite mounts. When there is attic access, he traces the water trail on the underside of the decking, which usually points straight at the entry.
Everything gets photographed. You see where the water is getting in and what the fix involves before you see a price. Flat and low-slope buildings leak differently, through seams and ponding areas rather than penetrations; for those, see our commercial roofing work in Orlando.
When a storm opens up a roof, the first job is stopping the water. We tarp the damaged section so the inside of your house stops taking on rain, then come back for the permanent repair once the weather clears. Call us as soon as it is safe, and we will get you on the schedule as fast as conditions allow.
If you plan to file an insurance claim, our photo documentation gives your adjuster a clear record of the damage. We repair roofs; we do not negotiate claims, and every decision about filing stays with you.
A recurring stain that tracks rainfall is almost always roof water finding the same path in. The stain marks where the water exits, not where it enters, which is why patching the drywall alone never fixes it. An inspection traces the path back to the source.
It can, but the price will not. Wood rot and mold do not pause between rains, and in Florida the next rain is rarely far off. A leak caught early is a small, quick repair ticket. The expensive jobs we see are usually small leaks that waited a season too long.
Yes. Tarping stops the immediate water intake and buys time for a proper repair. Call as soon as it is safe and we will schedule you as quickly as the weather allows.
The field of the roof, the open expanse of shingles, fails far less often than the transitions: pipe boots, chimney and wall flashing, valleys, and anything mounted through the surface. Those joints move with heat and age faster than the roof around them.
Describe what you are seeing and Tommy will tell you what it likely means. The inspection photos and the estimate are free.
Call or send us an email about your roofing needs and we’ll be right in touch to setup an onsite meeting.
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