Roofing in Lantana

Lantana sits on Lake Worth Lagoon and a fifth of the town is water, from the streets near Hypoluxo Park out to Hypoluxo Island in the lagoon. The median Lantana house dates to 1975, the same year Molsbee started; across the town line in Hypoluxo it is closer to 1990, and the difference shows on the roofs.

Lantana's older streets run to shingle on concrete-block houses, and a roof of that generation carries earlier repairs and decking that gets checked and re-nailed before any new covering goes on. Mainland Lantana is in the county's mainland wind band, Hypoluxo Island carries the coastal rating, and all of it is inside the wind-borne debris region.

Salt off the lagoon reaches the fasteners and the edge metal first, on Terrace Road as much as on North Lake Drive, and on a re-roof here we specify a self-adhered secondary water barrier on the deck, one of the compliant methods the Florida Building Code allows.

Our Lantana work comes the way the rest of it does, through a neighbour or a board member, and none of it has been far from the water. Re-roofs on Terrace Road, Thatcher Avenue, East Lantana Road and North Lake Drive.

Repairs on South Lake Drive, South Atlantic Drive and Lantana Pines Drive, and a standing repair account at the condominium buildings on Yacht Club Way, just across the town line on the Intracoastal, where we have been back more than once. What that work taught us is that a small town rewards showing up with the right paperwork: Lantana wants paper and a check, and the inspector wants the request in before the cut-off.

Get that right and the roof itself is the straightforward part. Every one of those roofs was photographed before and after, and the pictures are how we explain the work to an owner who was not up the ladder.

1. Tell us the town, not just the ZIP, and we bring the right forms. On a Lantana shingle roof the conversation turns from patching to replacing once the repairs add up.
2. 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.
3. Our inspection helps determine which applies to your roof. The tear-off shows the deck, the old fastening and what the lagoon salt has done to the flashings, and nothing new goes down until you have seen the photographs.
4. You get the warranty in writing and in two halves: lifetime workmanship from us on the installation, the manufacturer's on the shingle or tile. Price moves with the covering, the pitch, the penetrations, what the tear-off turns up and access on a lagoon lot.
5. The inspection is free, and if the roof belongs to a condominium association, have the board call us so the paperwork starts in the right name.

Each service has a page of its own for Lantana, with what changes here and a real job where we have one: roof leak repair, shingle roof replacement, roof inspection, tile roof replacement, flat roof repair and replacement, metal roof replacement, storm damage roof repair, roof replacement cost, roof maintenance and commercial roofing. Start with the one that sounds like your roof, or ring and tell us what you are seeing.

Yes, for anything beyond a minor patch. The town lists roofing as permit work and has no online portal, so we file on paper at the building division on Greynolds Circle with a check, the way Lantana wants it, and request each inspection the afternoon before.

Yes. Hypoluxo shares Lantana's ZIP code, and the permit desk changes at the town line even when the mailing address does not.

We confirm which town the parcel sits in before we quote, file with that desk, and the roof itself is built to the same standard either side of the line.

It depends on the covering, the size and pitch of the roof, the number of penetrations, how much deck and flashing the tear-off turns up, and how close the lot sits to the lagoon. We do not price from the street.

A roofer walks the roof, photographs it and puts the number in writing, and the look costs you nothing.

Shingle on most of the older Lantana streets, because that is what the block houses were built to carry and what the neighbours have. Tile or metal where a house was built for it.

On Hypoluxo Island either one is fastened to the coastal standard, and on any lagoon lot the edge metal is what we specify hardest.

June through the end of November. On the lagoon, have the edge metal, the ridge and the flashings checked in the spring, before the season asks anything of the roof, and again after any real blow.

The look is free and we are a few minutes up the road in Lake Worth Beach.

Lantana is 1975-median housing on the Lake Worth Lagoon, which means an original roof is long gone and many replacement roofs from the 1990s and 2000s are now due. 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.

Hypoluxo Island and Manalapan sit in the county's highest wind band with daily salt; mainland Lantana and Atlantis are a band lower. One ZIP covers four permit desks: Lantana takes paper applications and no online payment, Hypoluxo contracts its permits out, Manalapan runs a Monday-to-Saturday work clock on its own portal, and Atlantis sends a full re-roof through its Architectural Review Committee first.

Say which town you are in before you ask when the roof can be done, because the answer changes at the town line.