Roofing in Juno Beach

The typical Juno Beach home dates to 1989. The oceanfront is condominium buildings with low-slope roofs and parapets, and behind them are the residential pockets: Oak Harbour on the Intracoastal, Juno Isles, Seminole Landing, Ocean Trail, Seaside of Juno Beach, Ocean View Ridge, Juno Heights and Cote de la Mer.

The single-family stock runs to shingle and tile, the condominium decks to membrane. All of it sits in the 170 mph wind band and the wind-borne debris region, so the fastening schedule, the underlayment and the metal are specified to that rating whether the building is one storey or twelve, and on our re-roofs we specify a self-adhered secondary water barrier over the deck.

A quarter of the town is water and the ocean is never far, so salt works on every exposed piece of metal from the day it goes on.

1. Molsbee works this stretch of coast from Lake Worth Beach, with North Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens next door as regular ground, and Juno Beach roofs come to us the way the rest do, through a neighbour or a board member. The pattern is the same on every roof we open here: the covering is in better shape than the metal.
2. Valley metal, wall and chimney flashings, pipe collars and drip edge take the salt and give up first, out of sight. A roof on Ocean Drive can look new from the road and be finished at the valleys, and the only way to know which you have is to open it in a few places and look.
3. More than a third of the town's units were vacant at the last census, mostly seasonal, so the roof is often done while the owner is away. Our photo log and the town's online inspection record stand in for you until you are back.

Ask whether they are filing the town's own application or the county form that will be sent back, and whether the job touches any exterior lighting or glazing, and if so who is handling the sea turtle approval. Ask what grade the valley, flashing and edge metal is, because on an oceanfront town that grade decides how long the roof lasts and it is the first place a thin quote gets trimmed.

Then ask for the warranty in writing, in two parts: a lifetime workmanship warranty from us on the installation, and the manufacturers' product warranties on the materials. We are a GAF Certified Contractor and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor.

What moves the price here is the covering you choose, the pitch and the number of penetrations, how much deck and metal the tear-off turns up, the association's specification, and staging on a narrow coastal lot. We photograph everything and the inspection is free, so you decide with the pictures in front of you.

There is a page for each of these covering what is different about it in Juno Beach: tile roof replacement, metal roof replacement, shingle roof replacement, flat roof repair and replacement, roof leak repair, roof inspection and roof replacement cost. Pick whichever describes your problem, or ring us and we will save you the reading.

Its own. The town accepts the Town of Juno Beach permit application rather than the county-wide universal form, and inspections are scheduled online through MGO Connect, requested the afternoon before.

We file the town's form with the product approvals attached, the fastening written to the 170 mph band and the secondary water barrier method named, so it goes through the first time; the code allows more than one method, and we specify a self-adhered barrier over the deck.

Not the covering itself. The zone covers every property within 600 feet landward of the mean high-water line and it governs artificial lighting and new glass doors and windows.

If your job includes soffit or exterior lighting, or new glazing, that is a separate approval and we flag it before the schedule is set.

In Oak Harbour, Juno Isles and the other association communities, usually yes, and on a condominium the roof is the association's rather than the unit owner's. Ask the board or manager for the roof specification before you collect quotes, because it decides the covering, profile and colour that can be priced, and the letter has to be in hand before the town filing goes in.

We price to the written specification and send the board the inspection photographs with the proposal.

Repair when the covering is sound and the trouble is in the metal or one bad detail; replace when the repairs start adding up. The quarter-roof rule considers how much of a roof system or section is repaired, replaced or recovered in any 12-month period.

Above a quarter, the roof covering across that entire system or section generally must be replaced or recovered 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.

We check which applies before we price. The tear-off settles the rest.

It shows the deck, the fastening and what the salt has done to the flashings, and we photograph all of it before anything new goes down. Hurricane season is June to November, so have the roof read in the spring, before the season asks anything of it, and again after any real blow.

Neither visit is charged for.

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.