The metal roof question in West Boca Raton is really a question for the architectural committee. St Andrews Country Club, the Oaks at Boca Raton, Woodfield Hunt Club, Boca Tierra, Seasons, Woodlands, Glades Landing and Glen Oaks were built on concrete tile in 33496 and 33434, and many of their committees still require it, or allow standing seam only in specific profiles and colors, or only on a rear elevation or a garage. Other communities, and the newer custom homes filling in along Clint Moore Road and Lyons Road, have opened the door, and once one house on a street has a standing-seam roof the questions start. The case is a good one out here even without the coast's salt. West Boca gets the same wind and rain as everyone else, and a standing-seam roof sheds water instantly with no place for it to pool, holds on in gusts that lift tile, reflects heat instead of soaking it into a large attic, and has no underlayment-under-tile wear point to fail after a couple of decades, which is what drives most West Boca leaks. Because there is no salt this far inland, coastal-rated coated steel is a sound and less expensive panel here, where a house on the Intracoastal would need aluminum. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton. Before we quote a metal roof in West Boca we check what your community allows, because a beautiful proposal for a roof the committee will reject wastes your time. Where metal is allowed, the job runs like this: tear off the old roof, inspect and repair the deck, lay a high-temperature self-adhered underlayment, then install panels formed to length for each roof plane on concealed clips, with no exposed fasteners across the field, permitted through the Palm Beach County building division for the unincorporated pockets and inspected at dry-in and final. Where metal is not allowed we say so and price the tile the community requires instead. Free roof inspections: we measure from the roof, photograph the deck, and write standing seam, tile and shingle side by side for your own house. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.
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Metal costs more than shingle up front and sits near tile at the upper end of a full roof in Palm Beach County. It lasts decades. We price metal, tile and shingle side by side for your house.
Many West Boca associations still require concrete tile; others allow standing seam in approved colors and profiles; a few allow it only on rear elevations or garages. We check the architectural standards for St Andrews, the Oaks, Woodfield Hunt Club, Boca Tierra and the rest before the inspection, prepare the submittal if metal is permitted, and tell you plainly if it is not. No proposal for a roof you cannot build.
Miles from the Intracoastal, West Boca roofs face heat and wind but not salt, so coastal-rated coated steel standing seam on concealed clips is a sound roof here and costs less than the aluminum a canal house needs. Panels are still formed to length for each roof plane, edges still hemmed, flashings still matched, and the deck still gets a high-temperature underlayment. The saving is in the metal, not in the method.
Every panel system we install carries a Florida Product Approval for the wind zone Palm Beach County sits in, and the clip spacing, edge metal and underlayment are installed to that approval, not to a guess. That is what the county inspector checks at dry-in and final and what your close-out paperwork documents, approval numbers included. Our job is to install to the standard and prove it; what you do with the documentation afterward is yours.
Metal costs more than shingle up front and sits near tile at the upper end of what a full roof costs in Palm Beach County. Standing seam versus 5V, roof size and pitch, the number of valleys and penetrations to flash, and the deck condition once the old roof is off all move the price; the large country-club homes push the size line up. West Boca has not given us enough metal jobs for a town-only figure, so we measure yours and write metal, tile and shingle side by side.
