Roofing in Riviera Beach

Riviera Beach is three roofs in one ZIP. West of Lake Worth Lagoon, the Conchtown neighbourhoods west of Broadway are single-storey block houses with a median build year of 1977, and the redevelopment agency is rebuilding Riviera Beach Heights, Marina Village, the Broadway corridor and the streets around Avenue E.

On the waterfront, the Port of Palm Beach carries wharf and warehouse roofs, flat and low-slope, with Broadway's shop roofs behind them. Across the Blue Heron Bridge, Singer Island is nearly five miles of Atlantic coast lined with condo towers; the 42-storey Tiara was severely damaged by two hurricanes in 2004, and the association's engineer and the 170 mph uplift tables have set every job on the sand since.

The island and the port frontage sit in the 170 mph design wind band, the mainland in 160, and every roof in the city is inside the wind-borne debris region.

Our Riviera Beach work in the last year came through neighbours: a re-roof on West 7th Street over the winter, another on Gulfstream Way in the spring, and repairs on Centre Stone Lane and Edwards Lane. Out on Singer Island we have done flat roofs on the condo side, and the port-side buildings are the kind of flat and low-slope work we are certified for.

What the city has taught us is that the same ZIP holds three different specifications. A block house on the mainland gets shingle over a sealed deck to the mainland rating; a warehouse on the port or a tower on the sand gets a low-slope system built to the 170 mph uplift tables; and the lagoon frontage gets the coastal fasteners and edge metal whichever covering goes on.

1. On a mainland roof, have the deck and the covering looked at before you price a repair. If the leak is one flashing or a few courses at the eave on a sound deck, a repair is the honest answer.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. On a port-side building the choice between recovering the roof and replacing it is the whole quote, and the same rule weighs on it. On the island the association's engineer and the town clock set the job.
5. Storm season runs June through November, so have the edge metal and the flat sections checked in spring. Call (561) 318-8624, the phone is answered 24 hours a day, and the inspection is free with the price in writing.

We keep a separate Riviera Beach page for each of these, with what changes on the mainland, the port and the island, and a real job where we have one. Roof leak repair, commercial roofing and roof replacement cost.

Open the one that matches your building, or call and we will tell you which it is.

Call (561) 318-8624; the phone is answered 24 hours a day and the inspection is free. A Molsbee roofer walks the roof, photographs the covering, the flashings and the deck where it can be seen, and puts the price in writing before any work starts.

The city's own inspections during a permitted job are a separate thing: we book those through the Permits and Zoning Portal up to three business days ahead and tell you the day.

Yes. Flat and low-slope roofs are a big part of what we do, and we are certified for TPO.

On a Port of Palm Beach warehouse or a Broadway shop the question is usually recover or replace, and the quarter-roof rule explained above and the condition of what is under the membrane decide it. The port frontage carries the 170 mph rating, so the attachment is specified for it.

A commercial owner gets the same written proposal a homeowner does.

Shingle on most of the older block houses west of Broadway, because that is what the trusses were built for. Tile where the house was built for it.

On the lagoon or the port frontage either one goes on to the coastal standard, with the edge metal and fasteners chosen for salt. Whatever the covering, the old one comes off, we specify a self-adhered secondary water barrier over the deck, and the new roof is fastened to the wind band for its side of the lagoon.

June through November. On the water, have the edge metal and the flat sections looked at in the spring, before the season opens.

On a seventies shingle roof, look at the first course, the drip edge and any flashing that has been patched before. We will walk it for free.

Riviera Beach's mainland housing is 1977-median, single-story block houses west of the lagoon, so an original roof is long gone and second 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.

The port and lagoon frontage sit in the higher wind band with salt; the streets west of Broadway are a band lower. The city's Building Services desk on Blue Heron Boulevard runs an EnerGov portal and books inspections up to three business days ahead.

Singer Island, across the bridge, is a different roof problem: condo towers on flat roofs where the association's engineer, the uplift tables and the town clock set the job.