A Roof in Temple Terrace Works Harder Than Most
Temple Terrace grew up under a canopy of grand live oaks along the Hillsborough River, and that shade is part of what makes the city feel different from the rest of the Tampa area. It is also the first thing a roofer notices here. Oak limbs shed leaves, acorns, and dead branches onto shingles year-round, gutters clog faster than they do in newer treeless subdivisions, and the river-bottom humidity keeps north-facing slopes damp long after a summer storm has passed.
The housing stock adds its own wrinkles. Temple Terrace was planned in the 1920s as one of the country's first golf course communities, and the Mediterranean Revival homes near the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club still carry barrel tile that deserves careful, like-for-like restoration. Ring the city with the mid-century block ranches off Fowler Avenue and near the USF campus, and you have two very different roofing problems inside one small city.
