Roofing in Boynton Beach

The City of Boynton Beach issues its own roof permits from the Building Division on East Ocean Avenue through the SagesGov portal, and for a house or a duplex it runs an instant process: a licensed roofing contractor uploads the documents, pays the fee and the permit issues on the spot. Inspections are booked the afternoon before and run in steps, the sheathing, the tin tags over the underlayment and the finished roof, and under its own amendment the city allows a licensed roofer to substitute a notarised affidavit with colour photographs for certain checks, such as the sheathing re-nail and the tin-tag stage.

We tell you which we plan to use on your roof. There is no design board for a standard re-roof in Boynton, but a condo village like Sterling Village or a gated street off Woolbright Road will have an association with its own say, and that comes before the permit.

East of I-95 the housing runs older. The streets around Ocean Avenue, Chapel Hill, Lake Boynton Estates and the blocks off Federal Highway are mostly seventies houses, and the condo villages, Sterling Village, Leisureville and Hampshire Gardens, date from the sixties.

On the houses we mostly see shingle, usually recovered more than once by now; the villages run to low-slope and flat roofs shared by several owners. The Intracoastal is the city's east edge, with Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes and Manalapan across the water, and the Marina District and the streets toward it carry the coastal wind band while the rest of the city carries the mainland band.

All of it sits inside the wind-borne debris region, so on our re-roofs in town we specify a self-adhered secondary water barrier over the deck and a fastening schedule written for hurricane wind; the code's own secondary water barrier requirements allow more than one compliant method.

On the east side our recent work has been repair calls, on Southwest 25th Avenue, Oak Street and Northeast 1st Avenue, and it came mostly from a neighbour's word with a few from Google. There is no job count on this page because we do not round up.

West of I-95, in the gated communities, we do more re-roofs, and that work has its own page. What the east side has taught us is about seventies shingle.

Those roofs have been covered more than once, and the trouble is at the edges, where the drip edge and the first course have rusted or lifted, and at the flat sections over the Florida rooms, where a shingle-to-flat tie-in was never meant to last this long. In the sixties condo villages the roofs are low-slope and a leak in one unit often starts several units along, so we survey the run, not the unit that called.

1. Have the roof inspected before you buy a repair. On a seventies shingle roof off Ocean Avenue or in Chapel Hill, a patch on a covering that is near the end is money you will not get back.
2. A repair is the right call when the trouble is local, a lifted edge, a failed pipe boot, a bad tie-in over the Florida room, and the field of the roof is still sound. Replacement is the call when the shingle is losing grit across slopes, when leaks repeat in new places or when the deck feels soft underfoot.
3. Florida's quarter-roof rule: when more than a quarter of a roof system or section is repaired, replaced or recovered in any 12-month period, the roof covering across that entire system or section must be replaced or recovered to meet current code requirements. An exception applies 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 repaired, replaced or recovered must meet applicable current code requirements.
4. Our inspection helps determine which applies to your roof. Because the permit is instant the schedule is ours to keep, so ask what week the tear-off lands and how many days the roof is open.
5. In Sterling Village or Leisureville, bring the association in before the first ladder goes up.

Each of these has its own Boynton Beach page, with what changes here and a real job where we have one: roof leak repair, roof inspection, shingle roof replacement, flat roof repair and replacement, storm damage roof repair, tile roof replacement, metal roof replacement, roof replacement cost, roof maintenance and commercial roofing. For a shop or a plaza along Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach Boulevard or Federal Highway, the commercial page covers low-slope systems and working around your hours.

Whatever the page, the job comes with the same paper: a written scope, a lifetime workmanship warranty on the installation, the manufacturers' product warranties on the materials, and a roof certification letter for your insurer when you ask. We are a GAF Certified Contractor and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor.

Price moves with roof area, the material, the deck repairs the tear-off turns up and whether the affidavit or live inspections fit your roof. Pick the page that fits, or call and ask.

Instant, for a house or a duplex, once a licensed roofer uploads the documents to SagesGov and pays the fee. That puts the wait between your signature and the tear-off in our hands, not the city's, so ask us for a date, and ask what could move it: the association's sign-off in a condo village, material lead time on tile, or weather.

A condominium building or a commercial roof does not use the instant route and goes through plan review, so the timeline there is different and we tell you so up front.

If you are in one, usually yes, and in a condo village the association owns the roof outright. In Sterling Village, Leisureville or Hampshire Gardens one roof often covers several owners, so the board decides the timing and the material and the whole building is done as one; the instant permit is filed after that decision, not before.

In the gated communities on the west side an architectural review usually has to approve the material and colour before the city sees anything. On a single-family street with no association, in Chapel Hill or Lake Boynton Estates, the city permit is all you need.

Ask the board before you collect quotes, and bring us the written rules so the proposal matches them.

Shingle on the older east-side houses, because that is what the framing was built to carry and what the street looks like; putting heavier concrete tile on a seventies house near Ocean Avenue is a structural question before it is a style question. Tile belongs on the houses built for it, mostly west of I-95.

On a shingle re-roof here the old layers come off to the deck, the deck is re-nailed, the self-adhered secondary water barrier we specify goes down (the code allows more than one method), new drip edge and flashings follow, and the shingle is fastened to its product approval for the wind band. The choice changes the price, the weight and the years you get, not the permit route.

A notarised form, with colour photographs, in which a licensed roofer certifies the sheathing nailing and the tin-tag stage over the underlayment in place of the city inspector's visit to those steps, where the city accepts it. Boynton allows it under its own amendment to the code, and it keeps a re-roof moving between the tear-off and the final inspection, which the city still performs.

It is not a shortcut on the work; the nailing pattern and the tin tags are the same, and the photographs go into the permit file. We tell you before the job starts whether we plan to use the affidavit or book the live inspections, and either way you see the photographs of your own deck.

June through November. In spring, have a seventies shingle roof in Chapel Hill or off Federal Highway looked at along the edges and over the flat sections, because loose drip edge is where the wind gets under the first course, and the flat tie-in over a Florida room is where the rain finds the gap.

In the condo villages ask the board when the roofs were last surveyed. After a storm, photograph the ceilings and the yard, stay off the roof, and call; the phone is answered around the clock and the inspection is free.

We photograph what moved, tarp what needs it and tell you plainly whether it is a repair or the start of a replacement, in writing, before you decide.

East of I-95 the housing is 1970s-median, which puts an original shingle roof well past its life and many second roofs at the end of theirs, and the 1960s condo villages such as Sterling Village and Leisureville sit on flat or low-slope roofs that are judged by their seams rather than their age. 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.

The city sits on the Intracoastal, so the waterfront strip carries the county's highest wind band and daily salt. Boynton Beach has the fastest permit desk in the county: a licensed roofer's re-roof permit is issued on upload through SagesGov, and the city allows a notarized photo affidavit for some inspection stages.

That means the schedule is ours to hold, not the city's, so a roof that has reached its time does not have to wait.