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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyMetal roof replacement in Boca Raton begins with checking whether the proposed roof is allowed at the property. We inspect the existing assembly and provide panel, flashing and underlayment details with the price in writing.
Old Floresta's guidance does not prefer standing seam, while association rules may affect a Boca Pointe proposal. We resolve the appearance and the City-or-county permit route before treating a material change as ready to order.
Boca Raton is two permit regimes. Inside the city line the Building Division on Northwest Second Avenue takes the application on Boca eHub, with drawings uploaded to Boca Eplans, and inspections are scheduled there.
Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe sit outside the city, so a metal roof on Ironwedge Drive or Glendale Drive is filed with Palm Beach County on ePZB, where a licensed roofer's single-family re-roof is self-issued. We confirm the parcel before we quote, because the paperwork, the product approvals and the inspection calendar differ between the two desks.
Both historic districts need a certificate of appropriateness before the permit. The Old Floresta guideline prefers straight barrel mission tile in terracotta and lists standing seam and metal shingle as not preferred, with a stated order of repair, then in-kind, then something appropriate.
A Mizner house on Hibiscus or Alamanda is therefore not a metal conversion candidate, whatever the panel's wind rating, and we say so at the inspection rather than after a hearing. In Pearl City the certificate goes through the same board, and we prepare that packet alongside the permit.
Standing seam with concealed clips is the roof most Boca buyers picture: long panels, no exposed fasteners on the field, and a finish built for the salt off the Intracoastal and Lake Boca. Exposed-fastener panels cost less but rely on rows of gasketed screws that need checking as they age, so near the water we steer away from them.
Metal shingle and stone-coated steel give a tile or shake look at a fraction of the weight, which matters on a house never framed for tile. Every option goes over a self-adhered secondary water barrier on a re-nailed deck, clip spacing set for your wind band.
A metal roof that leaks at one penetration, a lifted ridge cap or a backed-out row of screws is a repair, and on an exposed-fastener roof re-screwing and resealing buys real years. Replacement is the answer when the panels have rusted through at the laps or eaves, when the finish has chalked and pinholed across the field, or when the underlayment beneath has failed and water is reaching the deck in several places.
We lift a panel at the worst spot, photograph what is under it and write a repair price and a replacement price side by side, so the comparison is on paper rather than on trust.
On a metal reroof in Boca Raton, the permit through Boca eHub portal and any appearance review decide when the panels can be ordered, so we settle them before the material.
Boca Raton is two permit regimes on one page. Inside the city line, the Building Division at 200 NW 2nd Avenue takes the application on Boca eHub, with plans uploaded to Boca Eplans. Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe in 33433 sit outside the city, so those roofs are filed with Palm Beach County on ePZB, where a single-family re-roof is self-issued.
Two local historic districts, Old Floresta and Pearl City, need a certificate of appropriateness first. The Old Floresta guideline prefers straight barrel mission tile in terracotta and lists asphalt shingle, metal shingle, standing seam and wood shakes as not preferred; the order is repair, then in-kind, then something appropriate.
The oceanfront along A1A is in the 170 mph design wind band; the mainland is 160 mph. The code sets the secondary water barrier requirements for a re-roof and allows several methods; ours is a self-adhered membrane over the deck.
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Not as a matter of course. The district guideline lists standing seam as not preferred and puts barrel tile first, so the Historic Preservation Board would have to be persuaded, and its stated order is repair the existing roof, then replace in kind, then consider something else.
We tell owners that at the free inspection rather than after a hearing. Outside the two districts, in Boca Square or University Park, historic review does not apply and the application goes straight to eHub with the product approvals.
Palm Beach County, not the city, because both sit outside the Boca Raton line. The application goes in on the county's ePZB portal, where a licensed roofer's single-family re-roof is self-issued once the documents and fee are in.
Before that, the village or association architectural committee has to approve the change from tile to metal, including profile and colour, and in a tile village that is not automatic. We ask for the association's rules first, then file with the county, so the two decisions stay in order.
Whether the deck can take the new roof, and which metal makes sense on your house. We check the framing and sheathing from the attic, measure the pitch and the transitions, look at how the roof meets walls, chimneys and skylights, and note the salt exposure between the Intracoastal and the canals.
On a tile house we also check whether the trusses were sized for tile, because going lighter is easy and going heavier is not. You get photographs and a written scope naming the panel, clip, underlayment and edge metal.
The panel system first: standing seam with concealed clips costs more than exposed-fastener panels, and a heavier gauge or thicker paint finish adds to it. Then the roof itself: pitch, the count of hips, valleys and penetrations, and the trim a cut-up roof needs.
Tearing off tile costs more than tearing off shingle. Deck repairs found once the old roof is off are priced by the sheet.
A county filing in Boca Del Mar and a city filing with historic review carry different fees, and the quote shows which applies.
Two warranties, both in writing. Molsbee's lifetime workmanship warranty covers the installation: the clips, the seams, the flashings and the way the roof meets the house.
The panel manufacturer's product warranty covers the metal itself, and its paperwork is handed over at completion. Neither covers damage from someone else walking or drilling on the roof, so we ask that later trades call us before they mount anything.