When Your Fort Lauderdale Roof Fails, Call Us First
A roof emergency doesn't keep business hours, and in South Florida it usually shows up with the weather. A storm cell rolls off the Atlantic, the rain comes down in sheets, and suddenly water is pouring through your ceiling and onto a sales floor, a warehouse of inventory, or a condo unit full of someone's belongings. That's the moment you need a roofing contractor who answers the phone. Windward Roofing & Construction has run a 24/7 emergency line for 42 years, and we cover Fort Lauderdale and Broward County from our Florida operations at 6261 39th Street N in Pinellas Park. This is a family-owned business with the Kuhn name on it, and we don't let a customer sit with a leaking roof because it's after five o'clock.
The first hours of a roof emergency decide how big the bill gets. Water that keeps coming in ruins more insulation, more ceiling, more inventory, and starts the mold clock in this humidity. Stopping it fast is the entire job, and that's what our emergency response is built to do.
An Emergency Line That's Actually Answered
Plenty of roofing companies advertise emergency service and then route you to a voicemail box nobody checks until Monday. That's not us. When you call (844) 880-8844, any hour and any day, you reach a real person who can take the details of your Fort Lauderdale building and get a crew moving. No phone tree to nowhere, no callback promise that never comes. The reason the line exists is so that the person standing under a leaking roof at 2am has someone to talk to.
Fast Dispatch Across Broward County
Once we know what you're dealing with, we move. We dispatch a crew to your Fort Lauderdale building as fast as conditions safely allow, with the materials and equipment to stop active water intrusion on the spot. We work the full range of commercial property in Broward, from downtown office towers and Las Olas hospitality to coastal condos, retail centers, and the warehouses and light-industrial buildings around Port Everglades and the I-95 corridor. Whatever's on your roof, our crews have repaired it before.
Stopping the Leak: Temporary Weatherproofing
The first job on site is simple to state and hard to do well: stop the water. Depending on what failed, that means sealing the breach, tarping or membrane-patching torn roofing, clearing the blocked drains and scuppers that are backing water up onto the roof, or re-securing flashing the wind has lifted. The goal is to get your building weathertight and stable so the damage stops growing inside. This temporary fix is engineered to hold through ongoing South Florida rain and wind, not a quick smear that fails by the next afternoon storm. Once you're dry, the emergency is over and the planned work begins.
Hurricane and Storm Response
In Broward County, emergency roofing and storm season go hand in hand. After a hurricane or tropical storm, the calls come in for wind-lifted membrane, displaced edge metal, and roofs punctured by flying debris. We respond to get buildings weathertight quickly, and just as importantly we document the damage thoroughly for your insurance carrier, with the photos and detail that support a clean claim. Because Broward sits in Florida's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the permanent repairs that follow are built to HVHZ standards so your roof is ready for the next storm, not just patched until it.
From Emergency to Permanent Repair
An emergency stop is the first stage of a real repair, not the end of it. Once your building is dry and stable, we come back to restore the roof properly, tracing the failure to its true source and rebuilding the waterproofing integrity so the same spot doesn't fail again. For the full scope of our planned work, see our roof repair in Fort Lauderdale page, and if the storm or the age of the roof means it's time for a new system, our roof replacement in Fort Lauderdale page covers that. Either way, the emergency call gets you back to dry, and the follow-up gets you back to right.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Call (844) 880-8844 any hour, any day, and you reach a real person, not a voicemail box you're hoping someone checks. When a commercial roof is letting water into your building at 2am or during a storm, you need to talk to someone who can dispatch a crew right then, and that's exactly what our line is for.
We stop the water. A crew gets to your Fort Lauderdale building, finds where the water is getting in, and applies temporary weatherproofing, sealing the breach, tarping torn membrane, clearing blocked drains, or patching lifted flashing, so the leak stops doing damage inside. That's the emergency. Once the building is dry and stable, we come back and schedule the permanent repair as a planned follow-up.
Yes, that's a big part of emergency work in Broward County. After a hurricane or tropical storm we respond to wind-lifted membrane, displaced edge metal, and debris-punctured roofs, get the building weathertight fast, and document the damage for your insurance carrier. Then we follow up with HVHZ-compliant permanent repairs so the roof is ready for the next storm.
Yes. Our emergency weatherproofing is built to keep the water out and stable through South Florida rain and wind until the permanent repair is done, not a quick smear that fails by the next afternoon storm. We treat the temporary fix as the first stage of a real repair, then return to restore the roof properly and put the waterproofing integrity back where it should be.