Storm Damage Repair in Central Florida

The hours right after a storm matter most. Once everyone is safe, your goal is to stop the damage from spreading while you wait for help. A small roof opening or a few inches of standing water can turn into mold, ruined flooring, and warped framing within a day or two in Florida humidity, so quick action protects both your home and your insurance claim.

Call our 24/7 storm line as soon as it is safe and we will dispatch a crew to tarp the roof and board up openings. While you wait, here is what helps most.

Our storm team is on call around the clock during and after severe weather. The first job is always to secure the structure so the damage stops growing. We tarp exposed roofs, board up broken windows and doors, and get eyes on the framing and the roof structure the same day where conditions allow.

Because we are a licensed general contractor, the same team that secures your home is the one that rebuilds it. Nothing gets lost in a handoff between companies.

True Builders does not perform water mitigation. If a storm left standing water, saturated drywall, or wet framing, that extraction and drying work belongs to our sister company, True Plumbers, at trueplumbers.com. Call them or call us and we will hand the mitigation off directly.

Once the structure is dry, we take over and rebuild. That split is deliberate. Mitigation and reconstruction are different licenses and different crews, and pretending one company does both well is how homeowners end up with a dried-out house nobody will finish.

Most companies that show up after a hurricane are mitigation and cleanup firms. They tarp, they haul debris, they dry things out, and then they leave. At that point the homeowner still has a hole in the roof deck, studs with no drywall, and no flooring, and has to go find a licensed contractor to finish the job.

True Builders holds Florida general contractor license CBC1258346, so we can pull the permit and rebuild. Framing, roof structure, exterior envelope, insulation, drywall, trim, cabinetry, flooring, and paint are all in-house. You are not hiring a cleanup crew and then starting the hiring process over.

If a tree came down on the house, that is our fallen tree damage repair crew. If the loss was a fire rather than wind, the same rebuild team handles fire damage restoration, smoke damage remediation, and complete loss rebuilds, and our broader disaster restoration service covers everything in between. When a storm rebuild becomes a chance to fix a kitchen or bathroom you already disliked, you pick the finishes in our showroom and the same crew installs them.

Published industry cost guides put most residential storm damage repair between $2,641 and $22,127, with an average near $12,331. Severe hurricane damage runs much wider, from about $5,000 to $100,000 and up, because the number is driven by whether the structure itself moved. Emergency roof tarping or board-up typically runs $300 to $1,500. Labor is generally $50 to $150 per hour, and emergency or after-hours dispatch adds 20 to 50 percent.

These are general market ranges compiled from published industry cost guides. They are not a True Builders quote. Your real number depends on scope, materials, and site conditions, and after a storm it also depends on what your policy covers. We give you an itemized figure after we walk the property.

Note that none of the figures above include water mitigation, which is not our service. Ask True Plumbers for that pricing.

Once your home is stabilized, we move into a clear, step-by-step recovery so you always know what is happening next. Every storm rebuild is documented, permitted where required, and completed to current Florida building code by our own self-performing trades.

Storm claims are stressful, and the paperwork can feel as overwhelming as the damage itself. We make that part easier. From the first visit, we document everything thoroughly and coordinate directly with your insurance company so the scope of repairs and the cost are clearly supported.

Most homeowner policies cover hurricane, wind, and fallen-tree damage. We speak the adjuster's language, provide the detailed estimates and photo evidence they need, and keep the repair moving so you are not stuck in the middle.

After a storm, the last thing you need is to manage a tarping crew, a water company, a roofer, and a remodeler all at once, each pointing at the other when something falls through the cracks. True Builders is full-service and self-performing, with every trade under one roof, so a single accountable team owns your recovery from the first emergency call to the final finish.

As a licensed Central Florida general contractor since 2009, we pull the permits, rebuild to code, and stand behind the work. That continuity is what keeps a storm rebuild on track and gives you one number to call when you have a question.

Our headquarters is at 4000 N Frontage Rd in Plant City, and our Lakeland office sits at 2829 Badger Rd #19. Both are staffed by people who live here, which is the only reason we can get a tarp on a Lakeland roof the same day a storm clears instead of three days later when an out-of-state crew finally rolls into town.

We work Polk, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties: Lakeland, Plant City, Tampa, Brandon, Winter Haven, Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills, Davenport, Bartow, Auburndale, and Haines City. We know which Polk County subdivisions flood, which Plant City roofs are original to the 1990s builds, and how each county runs its permit desk after a declared storm. The full list of towns we cover is on our service areas page.

Storm chasers show up after every hurricane with an out-of-state plate and a clipboard. Our recent projects, our customer reviews, and the crews on our team page have been here since 2009, and you can watch real Central Florida storm rebuilds in our video library.

Check us before you sign anything. Our Florida general contractor license is CBC1258346, verifiable in the Florida DBPR license database. We are licensed and insured, we hold an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and we carry 4.8 stars across 400-plus Google reviews. We have been doing this since 2009.

After a storm, the license number is the fastest way to tell a real contractor from a storm chaser. Ask every company that knocks on your door for theirs, then look it up.

Insurance rarely covers everything, and it rarely pays quickly. Financing lets you start the rebuild while the claim is still moving rather than living in a damaged house waiting on a check. We work with a third-party lending partner, and applying uses a soft credit check that does not affect your score.

Financing is subject to credit approval, and terms depend on the lender, the amount, and your credit. For smaller repairs we also take all major credit cards. Ask us what makes sense for your project when we walk the damage.

Living in Polk, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties means hurricane season is part of life, and we have rebuilt homes across the region through some of the worst of it. From Plant City, our crews reach Lakeland, Tampa, Brandon, Winter Haven, Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills, Davenport, Bartow, Auburndale, Haines City, and the surrounding communities quickly when it counts.

We know how local storms behave, how this climate punishes a damaged roof, and what it takes to get a Central Florida home dry, secure, and rebuilt the right way. When the next storm rolls through, you have a builder right down the road.