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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyLake Worth Beach is our home town, and it has the tightest re-roof price range of any town we work. Full re-roofs here came in between about $8,900 and $24,500 for us over the last twelve months, and the middle of the pack was around $17,800.
The range is narrow because the houses are alike. The core of the city is the 1912 to 1949 cottages of Old Lucerne, South Palm Park and College Park, small footprints on small lots, mostly single-story, and a shingle roof on one of them is a two or three day job.
What varies is what is under the shingle. A pre-war frame cottage usually has a board deck, and it is not unusual to find an old metal-shingle roof still under the layers.
Both are priced as their own lines once we have looked in the attic. The other thing that shapes a roof here is the Historic Resources Preservation Board.
There are six local historic districts, the certificate of appropriateness comes before the building permit, and the board expects the new roof to look like the original. Like-for-like is approved at staff level, so we steer you there first.
One more local wrinkle: the city runs its own electric utility, so if the service mast has to move for the roof, that is a call to the city, and we make it. Over the last year we re-roofed on the lettered streets from South A to South L and North N, on both Palmways, on Dartmouth Drive and on 15th Avenue North.
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Most Lake Worth Beach houses are small, single-story and close in age, so roof area does not swing much between a South Palm Park cottage and one on the lettered streets, and a shingle roof on a cottage lot is a short job. The numbers move on what we cannot see from the street: how many deck boards have gone soft, and whether an old metal-shingle roof is still under the layers.
A lagoon-front house in Parrot Cove or Bryant Park also carries salt-grade edge metal and the higher wind band's fastening. We look in the attic before we write anything down.
In College Park, Old Lucerne, South Palm Park and the other local districts the certificate of appropriateness has to be issued before the building permit. The board's rule is that the replacement roof should look like the original.
Like-for-like is usually handled at staff level and moves quickly. A change of material usually goes to the board and can be refused, as standing seam was over an original metal-shingle roof on North Ocean Breeze.
We price what will be approved, and we file the certificate before the permit so neither waits on the other.
The Building Division is on 2nd Avenue North, permits file on the city's online application, and next-day inspections are requested the afternoon before, which suits a short shingle job. Because Lake Worth Beach owns its electric utility, work at the service mast and weatherhead is coordinated with the city rather than FPL, and we make that call.
Our shop is minutes from every street in town, from Mango Groves to Eden Place, so an inspector's window is easy to meet.
Repairs here ran between about $1,500 and $5,000 last year, with the middle around $1,800. A flashing, a boot, a short run of shingle, a valley on a cottage roof.
On a roof past its life the honest advice is usually the replacement, because repairs that keep adding up run into the quarter-roof rule. Repairs and re-roofs both carry our lifetime workmanship warranty.
Financing is available on approved credit for replacements and we explain it if you ask.
In Lake Worth Beach the permit through online permit application, the wind band and what the tear-off reveals are the three things that move a roof price, so they come first in any quote.
This is our home town, and its permit desk is at 1900 2nd Avenue North. Permits are filed on the city's online application, with lookups and inspection scheduling in Click2Gov; the city takes next-day inspection requests until 4 pm. Because the city owns its electric utility, the service mast and weatherhead are coordinated with Lake Worth Beach Electric, not FPL.
Six local historic districts, College Park, Northeast Lucerne, Old Lucerne, Old Town, Southeast Lucerne and South Palm Park, sit under the Historic Resources Preservation Board, and a certificate of appropriateness is required before the permit can be issued. The board has refused standing seam over an original metal-shingle roof on North Ocean Breeze: the replacement has to replicate the look of the original. The mainland is 160 mph; the lagoon front and the Casino strip are 170 mph.
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We signed or completed about twenty roofing jobs with a Lake Worth Beach address over the last twelve months.
Full re-roofs in Lake Worth Beach came in between about $8,900 and $24,500 for us last year, the tightest range of any town we work; the middle of the pack was around $17,800.
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From our own signed jobs over the last twelve months, most full re-roofs in Lake Worth Beach cost between about $8,900 and $24,500, with the middle around $17,800. The range is narrow because the cottages here are alike in size; what moves a house inside it is the deck, an extra layer, and whether the roof faces the lagoon.
The free inspection turns that range into a written price for your own house.
Only if the board agrees it fits the original. The Historic Resources Preservation Board expects the replacement to replicate what was there, and it has refused standing seam where the original was metal shingle.
Like-for-like metal shingle can be approved at staff level, and Old Town's Mediterranean Revival and Mission roofs keep their profiles and colours the same way. Outside the local districts the choice is yours, and on a lagoon-front lot aluminum standing seam handles the salt well.
A board deck, and sometimes an old metal-shingle roof that earlier roofers shingled over. Old Lucerne and South Palm Park are frame vernacular cottages, so the deck is planks with gaps, not plywood; soft boards are replaced individually and the sheathing is inspected before the underlayment goes on.
An extra layer means more tear-off and disposal. We check the attic first so neither is a surprise on the day, and every board replaced is photographed and priced as its own line.
We roof all year and the roof is dried in the day it is opened, so a leaking roof should not wait for winter. Many of our Lake Worth Beach re-roofs get done between November and February when the afternoons are dry and inspections are easy to hold.
A cottage on the lettered streets is a short job in any season; a lagoon-front roof in Parrot Cove with its heavier fastening schedule takes a little longer. Our lifetime workmanship warranty and the manufacturers' product warranties are in writing either way.
Book the free roof inspection or call 561-318-8624; we are based here, so a roofer can usually be on the roof quickly. We measure from the roof, check the attic and the deck, and photograph everything.
The written scope and price then list tear-off to the deck, plank boards re-nailed and soft ones replaced board by board, the self-adhered secondary water barrier we specify (the code allows more than one method), new drip edge and flashings, and the shingle fastened to its product approval for your wind band. After the city final you get photographs, our lifetime workmanship warranty, the manufacturers' product warranties and, on request, a roof certification letter for your insurer.
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