Roofing in Boca Raton

Which desk issues your roof permit depends on which side of the city line the house sits. Inside the line, the City of Boca Raton Building Division takes the application on Boca eHub and the plans on Boca Eplans, and reviews them before the permit issues; Camino Gardens, Boca Square and University Park are city.

Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe carry a Boca Raton address but sit in unincorporated county, so those roofs are filed with Palm Beach County on ePZB, where a licensed roofer can self-issue a standard re-roof permit almost at once. Old Floresta and Pearl City, the two local historic districts, need a certificate of appropriateness before the permit.

We check the parcel before we quote and file with the right desk once you sign.

Most of our Boca Raton work sits in the Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe belt, and nearly all of it came by referral: re-roofs on Ironwedge Drive, Concord Green Drive West, Cypress Lane and Southwest 5th Street; repeat repair calls on Glendale Drive and La Mirada Drive; repairs on Montrico Drive, Northwest 23rd Terrace and Northwest 29th Road. Boca is more of a repair town for us than a re-roof town, and those calls taught us that a tile roof from the eighties usually fails at the underlayment and flashings first, while the tile itself has years left.

So the first question on a Boca Del Mar roof is whether a repair at the underlayment and flashings will hold, or whether the roof is due for new underlayment under new concrete tile. That answer is the quote, and we show you the photographs that decide it.

1. A little groundwork saves weeks. Tell us which side of the city line you are on, because it changes who issues the permit and how quickly.
2. Ask your association for its roof spec before you collect prices; in the planned communities the tile profile and colour are usually already set. On a tile roof from the eighties, ask every roofer what they found under the tiles they lifted; on clay barrel tile, ask for a relay price beside full replacement, because concrete tile is priced as new tile over new underlayment.
3. On a shingle roof in the core, replacement is usually the answer once the shingle has gone brittle and the repairs start repeating. Every Molsbee price carries two warranties in writing: our lifetime workmanship warranty on the install and the manufacturer's on the materials.

Every one of these has a Boca Raton page of its own, with what changes here and a job to show where we have one: tile roof replacement, roof leak repair, roof inspection, flat roof repair and replacement, commercial roofing, shingle roof replacement, metal roof replacement, storm damage roof repair, roof replacement cost and roof maintenance. In Boca Del Mar or Boca Pointe start with tile roof replacement or roof leak repair; on a seventies ranch in the core, shingle roof replacement; for an office on Glades Road, flat roof repair and replacement or commercial roofing.

Read the one that fits, or call us and ask which applies.

Check the licence, then the scope, then the people who have used the company. A Florida roofing licence is public and easy to verify on the state site, and ours is printed on every proposal.

A reputable roofer inspects before quoting, shows you photographs of what it found, names the tear-off, underlayment, flashing and edge metal in writing, and explains how hidden deck damage will be priced before anyone replaces it. Warning signs are a price with no scope, a push to sign on the spot, or a roofer who cannot say which permit desk the job goes to.

Read reviews from your own side of Boca, whether Boca Del Mar, Boca Pointe or the older core, because a roofer's record on your kind of roof tells you more than its advertising.

It depends on the roof, which is why the price comes after the inspection. What moves it: roof area and pitch, concrete tile against shingle against a flat membrane, what the deck needs once it is open, whether clay barrel tile can be reset over new underlayment or the roof takes new tile, and what the association specifies.

A quote is fair when it covers the whole job: tear-off, secondary water barrier, underlayment, flashing, edge metal, the permit and the inspections. Two prices that look far apart often describe different roofs, so compare the scopes line by line before comparing totals.

We put the full scope and price in writing, and financing is available on approved credit.

If repairs, replacements or roof recovering cover more than a quarter of a roof system or section in any 12-month period, the code generally requires replacing or recovering the roof covering across that entire system or section to meet current code requirements. If that system or section was built, repaired or replaced in compliance with the 2007 Florida Building Code or a later edition, only the portion being worked on must meet applicable current code requirements.

Our inspection helps determine which applies to your roof. On a Boca Del Mar tile roof, that threshold often decides whether a slope repair stays a repair.

We check the permit history and measure the damaged area before we write a price.

Tile in the planned communities, because the association usually requires it and the house was framed to carry it. Asphalt shingle is the practical answer on the seventies ranch houses in the core: lighter, quicker to install and easier to repair, fastened for the wind band and laid over a secondary water barrier.

Metal works on most houses where the association allows it, and standing seam holds up well on the east side, where salt from the beach and the Intracoastal reaches the roof edge first; it costs more than shingle and less than tile, and it needs a sound deck, which is why we lift a few pieces at the inspection before we price it. In Old Floresta the guidelines favour straight barrel mission tile and list metal and shingle as not preferred, so plan on tile there.

Almost always. Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe associations keep an approved tile list and often a colour, and some want their letter before the permit is filed.

Get the association letter first; we do not order tile until it is in hand, because a wrong profile is a roof that comes back off. In the older core, outside the historic districts, the permit alone is usually enough.

Inside Old Floresta or Pearl City it is the city's certificate of appropriateness that comes before the permit, with the Historic Preservation Board reviewing the material. We help assemble the product details each review asks for, so the letter and the permit move without a second round.

Central Boca is two housing eras side by side. The 33486 streets around Camino Gardens and Boca Square date from the 1970s, so an original roof there is long past its life and a second roof is likely near the end of it.

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. Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe are 1980s planned communities with tile specifications, where the tile usually outlives the underlayment beneath it; on concrete tile the answer is new tile over new underlayment, lift-and-reset is for clay barrel tile only, and the association's color rules come first.

The town is inland of the Intracoastal, so salt is less of a factor than at the beach. Which permit desk you use depends on the parcel: the city's eHub inside the line, the county's ePZB self-issued re-roof permit for Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe.

We check that before we write a word.