Vilano Beach is the barrier strip north of the St. Augustine Inlet, platted in 1926 and 1927 around an oceanfront casino that a 1937 storm took apart within a decade. What grew up after it is a town of 1950s and 1960s cottages under 5V metal and shingle on the grid streets off Vilano Road, 1980s and 1990s houses on the river side, and oceanfront homes along Coastal Highway that have been rebuilt taller and closer to the code each time the dunes moved. It is unincorporated St. Johns County, and the ocean is on one side of A1A with the Tolomato River on the other.
The dunes are the story here. Matthew's surge in October 2016 came across the strip, Ian in September 2022 washed out a seawall and left a house on Coastal Highway condemned, and Nicole in November 2022 took the rest of the beach in front of it. The Corps of Engineers placed sand along three miles of Vilano and South Ponte Vedra in 2023 and 2024. Helene in September 2024 flooded North Beach and Porpoise Point again. Roofs on the ocean side take salt spray year-round and a nor'easter's wind for days.
This site connects Vilano Beach homeowners with an independent local roofing contractor by phone. It does not perform the work.
A 5V metal roof from the 1960s with rust at every screw is a metal roofing question about a re-screw versus new panels. A shingle roof on the river side that leaks only in a northeast wind is a roof repair. An oceanfront house being rebuilt after the dunes moved is a roof replacement permitted through the county with the coastal wind speed on the drawings.
Vilano Beach Main Street keeps the town center's history and the pier at the end of Vilano Road, and it is where the community's storm and renourishment updates get posted. Permits run through the St. Johns County Building Department, since Vilano is outside the city limits.
Call (904) 895-7548 to be connected with a local roofing contractor serving Vilano Beach.
A lifted shingle after a nor'easter, a rusted fastener line on island metal, or a flashing seam at a chimney, traced to the source and fixed in writing.
Tear-off to the deck, new underlayment, and a new shingle, metal, or tile roof permitted through the county, the city, or St. Augustine Beach.
Tarping, photos, and repair after a named storm, a nor'easter, or a live oak limb opens the roof.
A walk on the roof and a look in the attic, written up with photos for a purchase, a renewal letter, or a post-storm check.
Standing seam and 5V panels specified for salt air from Vilano to Crescent Beach, with the fasteners and trim the ocean side of A1A demands.
The state form that records deck nailing, roof-to-wall straps, and roof shape so the wind portion of a Florida premium reflects the roof you have.
Roof work inside the city's HP zoning districts, where a Certificate of Appropriateness from the review board comes before the permit.
What to photograph, what a written roofing scope gives your adjuster, and how Florida's claim deadlines and roof-age rules work after a storm.