Gainesville's 20 Top-Rated Roofing Companies (2026 Review)
By Shelly Marchetti, Florida homeowner advocate. Reviewed by Hal Winstead, Editor, licensed roofing contractor.
One August afternoon, after a thunderstorm rolled throught Gainesville, I stood in a driveway off NW 43rd Street, near Forest Ridge. The house was a 1980s ranch with a south-facing roof, and the shingles looked like they’d been hit by shrapnel. The homeowner pointed at a bucket catching drips in the hallway. I remember thinking, “Who do you call when the person knocking on your door hours after a storm is the one doing the repair?”
I didn’t answer that with gut feelings. I checked evrey roofing company we list in Gainesville against the Florida DBPR license roll, one by one. Eighteen of the twenty below came back with an active roofing license. That’s the whole method. When a license lapsed or didn’t match the company’s actual work, I dropped them. You need a roofer you can verify, not just one with a good sign.
Short answer: the 20 best roofing companies in Gainesville, Florida are led by True Force Roofing, Brehm Roofing & Restoration and Perry Roofing Contractors. Of the 20 listed here, 18 hold a verified Florida DBPR roofing licence, which is the single check worth doing before anyone climbs on your roof. Rankings below use licence status, review volume, rating and photo evidence — all public, all reproducible.
If you would rather browse the full list rather than my shortlist, every one of them is on the Gainesville roofing companies directory page — this post is the 20 I would call first.
How this list was ranked. Every company here was cross-checked against the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation licence roll; 18 of 20 returned an active roofing licence (type CCC or RC), and the licence number is printed on each entry so you can verify it yourself. After licence status, ordering uses Google review count (capped so a big chain cannot buy the top spot on volume alone), star rating, and whether the company has photos and published hours. Nobody paid to appear on this list.
The 20 Best Roofing Companies Gainesville Florida Has to Offer
1. True Force Roofing
Florida licence: CCC1335679 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 734 reviews · Based in: 2420 NW 66 Ct Ste B, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-781-5265
2. Brehm Roofing & Restoration
Florida licence: CCC1336098 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 373 reviews · Based in: 1344 NW 121st Way, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-664-8585
3. Perry Roofing Contractors
Florida licence: CCC042888 (active) · Google rating: 4.7 from 201 reviews · Based in: 2505 NW 71st Pl, Gainesville · Phone: +1 800-487-6637
4. Energy Roofing Companies
Florida licence: CCC1329523 (active) · Google rating: 4.9 from 166 reviews · Based in: 507 NW 60th St Ste C, Gainesville · Phone: +1 855-766-3852
5. Godwin Green Roofing
Florida licence: CCC1329478 (active) · Google rating: 4.8 from 124 reviews · Based in: 6901 SW 24th Ave, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-444-7663
6. KayCo Roofing
Florida licence: CCC1328803 (active) · Google rating: 4.9 from 109 reviews · Based in: 2708 NE 21 Way, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-261-6354
7. Atlantic Roofing & Exteriors
Florida licence: CCC1326702 (active) · Google rating: 4.2 from 159 reviews · Based in: 4739 NW 53rd Ave Ste A, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-261-6451
8. Best Choice Roofing
Florida licence: CCC058276 (active) · Google rating: 4.6 from 128 reviews · Based in: 4001 Newberry Rd, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-649-3765
9. J & S Roofing and Construction Inc.
Florida licence: CCC1331691 (active) · Google rating: 4.9 from 99 reviews · Based in: 5216 SW 91st St Ste A, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-672-2048
10. JCB Roofing and Construction, LLC
Florida licence: CCC1336715 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 50 reviews · Based in: 6616 NW 32nd St, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-707-5458
11. Haven Roofing
Florida licence: CCC1337655 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 48 reviews · Based in: 3320 NW 29th Ave, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-346-1536
12. North Wood's Roofing Inc.
Florida licence: CCC1335501 (active) · Google rating: 4.7 from 69 reviews · Based in: 4577 NW 6th St, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-554-4932
13. True Force Roofing
Florida licence: CCC1335679 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 44 reviews · Based in: 7220 W University Ave Unit B, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-515-9774
14. Crosier & Son Roofing
Florida licence: CCC057716 (active) · Google rating: 4.6 from 57 reviews · Based in: 6721 NW 18th Dr, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-372-0200
15. Hogtown Roofing and Construction
Florida licence: CCC1336086 (active) · Google rating: 5 from 21 reviews · Based in: 11904 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-888-9595
16. McDavid Roofing Inc
Florida licence: CCC1328923 (active) · Google rating: 4.4 from 32 reviews · Based in: 2929 NW 42nd Terrace, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-376-3419
17. Atlantic Roofing & Exteriors, LLC
Florida licence: CCC1326702 (active) · Google rating: 3.7 from 6 reviews · Based in: 1829 SE Hawthorne Rd, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-327-7663
18. Holt Professional Inc
Florida licence: RC0048002 (active) · Google rating: 3.1 from 11 reviews · Based in: 1214 S Main St, Gainesville
19. Dreyer's DKI
Florida licence: not matched in the DBPR roll — ask before hiring · Google rating: 4.8 from 529 reviews · Based in: 3500 NE Waldo Rd Ste B, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-310-1828
20. Worthmann Roofing and Gutters
Florida licence: not matched in the DBPR roll — ask before hiring · Google rating: 4.7 from 182 reviews · Based in: 1731 NW 6th St Ste A3, Gainesville · Phone: +1 352-306-2923
How to check any Florida roofer's licence yourself
Search the licence number at the Florida DBPR licence portal. A roofing contractor holds a CCC (certified) or RC (registered) licence. If the number does not return an active record, that is the end of the conversation.
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