Where we workand who permits it
Four Northeast Florida counties, two offices, and a service area that runs from Hilliard at the north end down to St. Augustine. Every page below is written around what is actually different about that place: the permit authority, the wind exposure, the salt, and the age of the houses.
Two officesat the two ends of the map
Our main office is at 700 E Union St Suite 165, Jacksonville, and our second is at 910 S 8th St Suite 309, Fernandina Beach. That is not a coincidence, Nassau County is where the largest share of our work is and Duval is second, so we keep a base at each end rather than driving the whole map from one yard.
Clay and St. Johns counties are a lighter but real part of what we do. We are not going to pretend otherwise or publish a service-area map twice the size of the one we actually cover. What we will do is give you the same free estimate, the same inspection photos and the same crews wherever in those four counties you are.
Call or text (904) 707-6546 and we will tell you straight whether your address is somewhere we work.
The county is notalways the permit authority
Northeast Florida is a patchwork, and getting it wrong costs a homeowner weeks. The City of Jacksonville is a consolidated city-county government, but its Building Inspection Division states plainly that its authority is limited to the City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and the Town of Baldwin each run their own building and zoning programs.
Nassau County works the same way. It contains exactly three municipalities (Fernandina Beach, Callahan and Hilliard) and every one of them issues its own building permits. Everything else in the county, including Yulee and the southern part of Amelia Island, goes through the Nassau County Building Department.
We work with all of them. Knowing which counter your parcel belongs to before we start is part of the job, not something we figure out after the fact.
Four countiesand the towns inside them
Every county page goes into the permitting, the exposure and the housing stock for that area. The town pages underneath go further still.
Nassau County
Our largest service area, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Yulee, Callahan and Hilliard.
Nassau County overviewWhat changesfrom one end to the other
These are not marketing distinctions. They are the three variables that decide what a roof in a given town is most likely to fail from, and they are why our location pages do not read the same as each other.
The age of the houses
Median year built runs 1986 in Duval, 1996 in Clay, 2000 in Nassau and 2004 in St. Johns, an eighteen-year spread across four neighbouring counties. An aging-roof conversation that fits one of them lands badly in another.
How hard the wind blows
Ultimate design wind speeds across the whole area run roughly 120 to 130 mph for standard homes, rising as you move east. Jacksonville sets 125 mph west of I-95 and the river and 130 mph east of it; Clay County uses 130 mph.
Salt air or tree canopy
Inland communities sit under 46 to 55 percent tree canopy: leaf load in valleys, organic staining, limb fall. The barrier islands trade all of that for salt corrosion on fasteners and flashing, wind-driven rain and full UV exposure.
Same crewsin every one of them
Wherever you are on this map, the work is the same list: full roof replacement in shingle, metal and low-slope systems, roof repairs, and the rest of the exterior: siding, pavers, painting, gutters, windows and doors, enclosures, decks and fences.
Advocate Roofing and Construction holds a Certified Roofing Contractor licence (CCC1335155) and a Certified Building Contractor licence (CBC1270530) with the State of Florida. The second licence is why a job that turns structural does not mean starting over with a different company, in any of these four counties.
Service areaquestions we get asked
We work across four Northeast Florida counties: Nassau, Duval, Clay and St. Johns. That covers Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Yulee, Callahan and Hilliard in Nassau County; Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach in Duval; Orange Park in Clay; and St. Johns and St. Augustine in St. Johns County. We keep two offices, the main one in Jacksonville and a second in Fernandina Beach, because those are the two ends of the service area we are in most.
Nassau County is where the largest share of our work is, and Duval County is second. Between them they account for most of what we build in a given year, which is why we hold an office at each end. Clay and St. Johns counties are a real but lighter part of the business, and we take work there the same way we take it anywhere else.
It depends on whether your address is inside an incorporated city, and the answer is not always the county. Jacksonville's Building Inspection Division covers most of Duval, but Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and the Town of Baldwin all run their own building departments. In Nassau County, Fernandina Beach, Callahan and Hilliard each permit their own work, and the Nassau County Building Department handles everything else. We pull the permit from whichever authority governs your parcel, and we do not perform unpermitted work.
No. Estimates are free everywhere we work, there is no minimum trip fee, and there is no job too small. Whether you are in Hilliard at the north end or St. Augustine at the south, you get the same free estimate, the same inspection photos for your records, and no obligation to book the work.
Jacksonville averages about 52 inches of rain a year across roughly 114 days with measurable rainfall, and nearly 40 percent of that total falls in June, July and August. Short, intense summer storms are the load pattern that finds a weak roof: a lifted shingle, a tired pipe boot, a flashing joint that has opened up. Add three damaging tropical wind events in the last decade and the pattern is clear: it is rarely one dramatic failure, it is water finding the same small opening over and over.
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Send us your address and what you are seeing. If you are inside these four counties we will get someone out to look, free, with photos of whatever we find.
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