Roofing in Royal Palm Beach

Our Royal Palm Beach work is mostly full re-roofs, and most of it came from a neighbour passing our name along, with a few through builders and property managers. A row of villas on Fairways Lane done one unit at a time across the year.

Queens Lane in Crestwood. Bilbao Street in La Mancha.

Repairs on Sparrow Drive, Seminole Lakes Drive, Fox Trail Road South and Cypress Trace. What the Fairways Lane row taught us is that on attached villas the neighbours set the tile match and the timing, because a row re-roofed one unit at a time has to look like one roof when it is done, and the tie-in at the party wall has to be photographed.

The village side is easy. The nailing affidavit and the spec sheet go in with the permit, and the review comes back when the village says it will.

1. In an attached row, talk to the neighbours before you pick a tile, because the match matters more than the brand. On a 1990 block house the job is usually a plain re-roof, and the tear-off tells the rest: deck, old fastening and flashings, all photographed.
2. Repairs make sense while small. 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.
3. 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. Our inspection helps determine which applies to your roof.
4. Two documents, both in writing before the deposit: Molsbee's lifetime workmanship warranty on the installation and the manufacturers' product warranties on the tile and underlayment. Price moves with the tile you match, the size and pitch, the penetrations and what the tear-off turns up.
5. Ask for the spec sheet early, because that is the document the village holds us to. Behind a gate, the association letter comes first, and the inspection is free.

We keep a separate Royal Palm Beach page for each of these, with what changes here and a real job where we have one: roof leak repair, roof replacement cost and commercial roofing. Whichever you open, the work is done by a Florida Certified Roofing Contractor that is also a GAF Certified Contractor and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor, and it starts the same way: a free inspection, photographs of the findings and a written scope with the price before anything is signed.

Open the one that matches your roof, or call and describe what you are seeing.

The village publishes its residential review time and keeps to it, and it is one of the more predictable desks in the county. We file on ProjectDox the day you sign, with the contractor data sheet, the re-roof nailing affidavit form and the roof spec sheet in the same upload, so nothing comes back for a missing page.

The permit then has a set life, so the tear-off is scheduled to start inside it, and inspections are booked on the village's automated line once the roof is ready for each stage.

The village's re-roof filing includes its nailing affidavit form alongside the roof spec sheet, and the permit sets which inspections the village still performs on your roof. Inspections are booked on the automated line, and the inspector's window is given by phone in the morning.

We fill in both forms from what the tear-off actually shows, photograph the deck nailing either way, and you receive those photographs with the permit record at the end of the job.

Tile on most streets, because that is what the houses were built with and what the neighbours have; shingle is possible where the association allows it. Most tile here is concrete, and a concrete tile re-roof is priced as new tile: the old tile comes off, the deck is re-nailed, the self-adhered secondary water barrier we specify goes down (the code allows other methods), flashings are replaced, and the new tile is set to its product approval.

In a canal-lot neighbourhood like Crestwood or La Mancha, check the leaf litter in the valleys before you blame the tile.

Yes, and we have done a whole row that way, one unit at a time. The work is in two details.

The tile has to match the row in profile and colour, so we identify it before the proposal. The tie-in at the party wall has to be flashed so water on the neighbour's slope cannot run under the new underlayment.

We photograph both so the neighbour on the other side of the wall can see what was done, and the association gets the same pictures.

The season runs June into late November. On tile, spring is the time to count cracked and slipped pieces, check the ridge mortar and clear what the trees have dropped in the valleys; our crews wear protective, safe footwear on tile.

After any real blow we come back and look again, and we do not charge to look. When a repair or re-roof follows, we provide a roof certification letter for your insurer when you ask for one.

Royal Palm Beach is 1990-median housing on an inland canal grid, so an original shingle roof is at the end of its life now and original tile is at its underlayment cycle. 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.

There is no salt to speak of and the village sits in the lower wind band, so age and the state of the underlayment decide more than exposure. In the attached-villa rows the neighbors' roofs set the timing and the tile match, and the association usually decides when a row gets done.

The village reviews a residential roof permit in seven to ten business days, accepts a re-roof nailing affidavit, and keeps the permit valid for 180 days, so once a roof is due the job itself is a short one.