Boral Flashing Replacement Nationwide

Boral Flashing Replacement: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide

Boral flashing replacement in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $340 – $780 installed, and we keep common Boral-compatible profiles on our trucks so most jobs wrap up same day. You usually find out the flashing has failed the same way most of our customers do: a brown water stain creeps across the ceiling after a hard South Florida downpour, or you spot a loose metal edge winking at you from the roof line. Flashing isn’t glamorous, but it’s the part standing between your Boral roof tile and a slow leak that can rot decking for months before you notice it. We’re Tilehurst Roofing Fort Lauderdale, an independent roofing contractor, not affiliated with Boral, but we work with their tile profiles regularly across the city.

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Which Boral Models This Applies To

Boral roof tiles cover a wide field, but flashing compatibility comes down to the tile profile, not just the brand name. The flat and low-profile lines, like Boral Flat, Slate, and Shake, all need step flashing cut to sit tight against the tile’s top surface without creating a ledge that traps water. The barrel and high-profile lines, like Boral Roma and the one-piece S-tiles, ask for a different rise on the flashing and often a wider base step. Here’s the part that catches people: Boral’s newer lightweight concrete profiles are thinner at the nose than the older clay lines, so a flashing leg that was trimmed for a classic clay tile will often stand proud and start channeling water sideways instead of down. Measure the tile’s nose thickness and note whether your tile has a squared or rounded edge before ordering anything. For most Fort Lauderdale homes, we cut flashing to the exact profile we see on your roof, not to a catalog guess. OEM Boral flashing exists, but honest truth: for replacement work, a properly fabricated 26-gauge aluminum or copper flashing, cut to your tile profile, outperforms a generic “factory” piece that wasn’t shaped for your specific tile profile. We stock both, and we’ll tell you which one your roof actually needs after we walk it.

Signs Your Boral Flashing Replacement Is Failing

• Water stains on ceilings or exterior walls near roof intersections. Flashing at a wall, chimney, or valley is nearly always the first suspect. The water travels along the underside of the flashing, so the stain shows up feet away from the actual entry point.
• Lifted or curling flashing at the roof-to-wall line. Thermal expansion in Fort Lauderdale’s heat cycles works metal loose over a decade, and once the seal is broken the edge becomes a scoop for wind-driven rain.
• Rust or pinholes visible on galvanized flashing. Salt air along the Las Olas Isles and the barrier islands eats galvanized flashing faster than most people expect. Once pinholes show, the piece is done; patching buys months, not years.
• Granules or tile debris collecting in a valley or against a wall flashing. That debris holds moisture against the metal and the tile above it, starting the corrosion or rot process that eventually opens a seam.
• Damp smells in the attic after rain without an obvious roof hole. Flashing failures leak slowly and often dry before you see a stain. If the attic smells musty after a storm, the flashing joints are the first place Greg Holloway checks when he walks the roof.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For a straightforward Boral flashing replacement in Fort Lauderdale, expect installed pricing between $340 and $780. The range is driven by how many linear feet of flashing are involved, whether the tile profile is flat or high-profile, how much tile lifting is required to seat the new metal, and whether we’re matching existing copper or replacing with aluminum. Every quote includes the flashing material, fasteners, sealant, tile removal and re-setting, and cleanup. We don’t hand you a parts-only price and then surprise you with labor on the back end. Before any work starts, the written price is in your hands, and the written guarantee is delivered before our crew leaves the driveway, not mailed a week later. If that repair fails inside the guarantee period, we come back at no charge under the 365-Day Done Right Promise. That’s the whole point of having a live person answer the phone when you call.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely do one useful thing yourself: take photos of the flashing from the ground, note which wall or valley the stain lines up with inside, and clear any leaves or debris you can reach without getting on a ladder. Then stop. Flashing replacement on a Boral tile roof is not a weekend project. The tile has to be lifted without cracking the adjacent pieces, the new flashing has to be cut and bent to the exact profile, and the fastening points need to be sealed under, not over, the tile. Drop a tile or misplace a fastener, and you’ve traded a $340 flashing job for a $1,200 tile repair. We’ve pulled failed DIY flashing off enough Fort Lauderdale roofs to know where that road goes. Call (754) 732-9325 and let us put eyes on it. We’ll tell you the price before we touch your roof. That’s just how it should work.

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Get Your Free Estimate

If your Boral flashing has failed, call Tilehurst Roofing Fort Lauderdale at (754) 732-9325. A live person answers, around the clock, every day. We’ll schedule a time that works for you, walk the roof ourselves, and hand you a written price before any work begins. Written guarantee included, every time. We also keep flashing and repair parts for GAF, Owens Corning, and CertainTeed roofs, so if your roof is mixed-brand, we’ll sort that out on the same visit.

Written by Greg Holloway, Owner, Tilehurst Roofing Fort Lauderdale at Tilehurst Roofing Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.