Roofing in Juno Beach

From the pier north to the county line and west to US-1, Juno Beach sits in salt air. Whatever the roof surface, tile on the homes at Juno Heights and Ocean View Ridge, membrane on the towers along A1A, metal on the newer construction near Malbo and Tomkus, the first thing to fail is the metal beneath and around it: valley flashing, drip edge, hip and ridge fasteners, drain bowls and scuppers, clips and screws, edge metal.

A roof that looks new from Ocean Drive can be running water down a rusted valley into a ceiling. Every coastal job we do in Juno Beach uses stainless or coated fasteners, corrosion-resistant flashing and sealed edges as the standard, and every inspection starts by probing the metal rather than admiring the surface.

Repair is most of what we do here and most of it is metal work. Rusted valley flashing cut out and relined in stainless or copper; drip edge renewed along the eave; corroded hip and ridge fasteners pulled and the caps re-bedded and screwed with stainless; the tile lifted, saved and relaid so the fix disappears.

On a metal roof, rusted screws replaced with stainless, open edges hemmed and sealed, boots and caps renewed. The stain inside is rarely under the entry point, because water travels along the underlayment before it drops, so the roofer traces it from the roof and the attic, photographs the source, and prices the repair in writing before starting.

After a storm a secured tarp comes first and the permanent repair follows once the deck is dry.

The towers and mid-rise buildings on the ocean side of Juno Beach carry flat or low-slope roofs that hold water after every storm while salt works on every drain, scupper, pitch pocket and length of edge metal. Boards and property managers get a written survey with photographs, a scope by phase, a price per phase and a staging plan that keeps residents dry and the garage and pool deck usable; older three-story-plus buildings facing the state's milestone inspections get a roof condition report with a remaining-life opinion for the file.

Repairs rebuild corroded metal in stainless and fix seams with the membrane's own system; replacements add tapered insulation where ponding has been the problem, with TPO or modified bitumen on top.

1. When a Juno Beach roof is past repair, the choice on a house is tile or standing-seam metal, both built for salt. A tile re-roof strips to the deck, replaces soft plywood and salt-eaten fascia, lays new self-adhered underlayment with valleys lined in stainless or copper, and sets the tile to the county's wind-code attachment with stainless fasteners and caps.
2. A metal re-roof uses aluminum or coastal-rated coated steel panels on stainless concealed clips, hemmed and sealed edges, and matching metal at every flashing. Where a community such as Oak Harbour or Seaside of Juno Beach has architectural rules, the submittal goes first; then the Town of Juno Beach permit and inspections at dry-in and final.
3. Both systems sit at the top rung of what a full roof costs in Palm Beach County; we measure yours and write every line down.

Molsbee Roofing is a family business since 1975, licensed CCC1327429, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton; Juno Beach is a straight run up US-1 for us. We know what salt does to a fastener on this stretch of coast and what a board needs in its file, and we are still here next season when the roof needs looking at again.

Every job is permitted through the Town of Juno Beach and inspected. Every price is itemized and in writing before work starts.

Free roof inspections for homeowners and associations. Call 561-318-8624, phone answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Juno Beach is a narrow oceanfront town of condominium buildings along the water and residential pockets like Oak Harbour and Seaside of Juno Beach behind them, with most of the town inside the sea turtle protection zone that reaches 600 feet landward of the mean high-water line. In Palm Beach County a shingle roof generally lasts 13 to 18 years, tile 15 to 20, metal 20 to 25, and a flat roof 15 to 20.

On this stretch treat those as the outside of the envelope rather than the middle, because the metal under and around a covering ages faster than the covering itself. The practical timing rule is that you replace when the valleys and flashings have gone, which is usually earlier than the covering looks.

Two local scheduling notes: the town takes its own permit application rather than the county-wide form, and if the work touches exterior lighting or glazing there is a separate sea turtle approval to allow for, so decide in the spring rather than in August.