Rant: Got Screwed on a $8500 Owens Corning Shingle Job in South Florida - Wind Codes Killing Me

Man, up here in south Florida everything rusts or gets chewed up by the humidity, and now this $8500 Owens Corning shingle replacement on a three-story beach house turned into a total crap-show because the damn inspector hit us with a failed wind code check for not hitting 140 mph uplift standards. We followed the manufacturer's specs to the letter, but the guy wants us to tear off half the ridge caps and redo them with extra nailing, which'll add another $1200 easy. Me and the crew were out there in 95-degree heat for two weeks straight, and now this? Been roofing 18 years and I've never seen such BS from a county inspector. It's like they're out to make small outfits like mine jump through hoops while the big PE-backed companies skate by. FML, seriously considering just walking away from this one and eating the loss. Anyone else dealing with this nonsense down here?

same here, had a similar mess with a hail job last month and the inspector was a total dick about it.

Document everything and file for a variance if you can, might save you the redo. Talked to a buddy who got one approved after showing the engineering stamp.

How many nails per shingle did you end up using? Ours are at 6 and still getting flagged sometimes.

Haha, tell the inspector it's hurricane season and you need to wrap it up before the next storm hits.

Pisses me off too, been fighting these code changes all year and it's killing my margins on every tear-off.

Us against the inspectors, man. They're the real enemy holding back the trade.

Don't walk away, lien that sucker if they don't pay. But yeah, get a second opinion from another inspector before ripping anything out.

Rage all you want, but big companies buy off the inspectors half the time. Small guys like us just get the shaft.

Frustrated as hell with the same crap, lost a whole weekend redoing vents because of uplift rules on a $6k job.

Switch to metal roofing next time, less hassle with codes and holds up better in Florida winds anyway.