Fewer than 60 roofers in Florida hold the CPRC. Corben Hogan is one of them.
The CPRC designation is awarded by the Florida Roofing & Sheet Metal Contractors Association to contractors who score 90% or higher on the state roofing trades exam. Corben scored 98%. This is the record behind that number — what the credential tests, what it does not, and how to check it for yourself.
- Owner, Hogan Roofing
- Winter Springs, FL
- Central Florida
A roofer who studied the trade the way an engineer studies a load path
Every roofing contractor working legally in Florida passes a state trades exam. It is a real exam and a real bar — but it is a bar, not a ranking. Once you clear it, nothing on your licence tells a homeowner whether you scraped through or ran the table. The industry has no public scoreboard, which is precisely why a homeowner comparing three estimates has almost no way to tell technical depth from confident salesmanship.
The CPRC exists to close that gap. The Florida Roofing & Sheet Metal Contractors Association reserves the designation for contractors who score 90% or better on that same state exam — a threshold most licensed roofers never test themselves against, because they never need to. Corben scored 98%, and holds the designation today alongside fewer than 60 other roofing professionals in the entire state.
What that score represents is not trivia recall. The exam covers roof assembly and material behaviour, Florida Building Code as it applies to installation and repair, wind uplift and fastening, flashing and water intrusion, manufacturer specifications, and the documentation standards that decide whether a roof report survives review. A 98% means the person on your roof can explain why a detail failed, not just that it looks wrong.
Corben owns and operates Hogan Roofing in Winter Springs, working alongside his father Brad, who has spent more than forty years in the trade. This site is deliberately separate from the company: it is the credential record, and it stays honest about the difference between what has been verified and what has merely been claimed.
The CPRC is not a marketing badge
It cannot be bought, sponsored, or awarded for volume. It is a score on a proctored state exam, held to a threshold by a trade association that has been representing Florida roofing contractors for decades. That is the whole reason it means anything.
Verification beats reputation
Licence status is public and free to search. Insurance is confirmable in one phone call to the carrier. This site tells you exactly how to do both — for Corben, and for whoever else is bidding on your roof.
Four things a base contractor licence does not tell you
A licence proves the state permits you to do the work. It says nothing about how well you understand it. These are the areas where the difference shows up on a real roof.
Inspection that follows a method
A repeatable sequence — decking, fastening pattern, flashing terminations, penetrations, valleys, ventilation, and the interior evidence that confirms or contradicts what the surface suggests. Not a walk to the ridge and a verdict. Method is what makes two inspections of the same roof agree.
Code and manufacturer specification, applied
Florida's code governs far more than shingle choice: underlayment, secondary water barrier, nailing patterns, edge metal, and what triggers a full system upgrade rather than a patch. Manufacturer specifications run parallel to it, and ignoring either one is how a warranty quietly becomes void.
Damage assessment that distinguishes cause
Wind, hail, foot traffic, thermal cycling, manufacturing defect, and plain age all leave different signatures, and they are routinely confused — in both directions. Calling the cause correctly is the difference between a repair, a replacement, and a claim that should never have been filed.
Documentation that survives review
A roof report is read by people who were not there: an adjuster, an engineer, sometimes an attorney. Photographs tied to locations, measurements, the code section that applies, and a conclusion that follows from the evidence — that is a document that holds. A page of adjectives is not.
The credential is Corben's. The roofing is Hogan Roofing's.
This site does not sell roofs. It exists so that the credential can be examined on its own terms, without a quote attached. When you want a roof inspected, repaired, or replaced, that work goes through the company Corben owns and runs with his father Brad in Winter Springs.
Hogan Roofing serves Central Florida, holds Florida roofing contractor licence CCC1335396, and is an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor and a Google Guaranteed business. Financing is available at 0% APR for twelve months. A CPRC-holder is not somewhere in the back office — he is the owner, and the standard he tested to is the standard the crews are held to.
- Roof inspection and condition reporting Documented findings you can hand to an insurer, a buyer, or a lender.
- Storm and wind damage assessment An honest read on whether what you have is a claim, a repair, or a roof nearing the end of its service life anyway.
- Full roof replacement Shingle, tile, and metal systems, installed to manufacturer specification so the warranty survives the install.
- Repairs and maintenance Flashing, boots, valleys, and the small failures that become ceiling stains two rainy seasons later.
- Permits and inspections handled Pulled in the contractor's name, inspected by the jurisdiction, closed out properly.
Three pages, written to be useful before you hire anyone
Including the one that tells you how to check a roofer who is not Corben.
What is a CPRC?
The definitive explainer: what the designation is, what the exam covers, how it differs from a licence, and when it genuinely matters to a homeowner.
Read the explainer
02Choosing a roofing contractor
A working method for vetting any Florida roofer: licence, insurance, permit, contract, warranty, and the pressure tactics worth walking away from.
Read the guide
03Credentials
The record itself, with independent verification steps for every line of it — and clearly marked gaps where a number has not been published yet.
See the record
Ready for someone to actually look at the roof?
Hogan Roofing handles inspections, repairs, replacements, and storm damage across Central Florida. For anything about the credential itself — verification, media, or a second opinion on a report — write to Corben directly.