Boca Raton, FL Roofing Company

City or County? Check before anything is filed

A large part of what people call Boca Raton — especially west of the turnpike and much of the country-club belt — isn't inside the city at all. Boca West, for example, is an unincorporated community, so its building permits go through Palm Beach County's Building Division rather than the City of Boca Raton. The mailing address says Boca either way; the property record says which government actually permits the roof.

• Inside city limits: the City of Boca Raton's Development Services Department, Building Division, at 200 NW 2nd Avenue. Roofing permits are submitted electronically through the City's Boca eHub and ProjectDox (Boca ePlans) systems.
• Unincorporated Palm Beach County: the County's Planning, Zoning & Building Building Division, with its permit center at 2300 N Jog Road in West Palm Beach and online applications through the ePZB portal.
• Either way: the Palm Beach County Universal Building Permit Application is the standard form, and requirements change — confirm the current checklist with the right office.

What "outside the HVHZ" does and doesn't mean

The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone covers Broward and Miami-Dade only, so Boca roofs aren't built to the HVHZ chapters of the code. That doesn't make them low-wind roofs. Palm Beach County sits in a wind-borne-debris region with high design wind speeds, and products must carry Florida Product Approval or a Miami-Dade NOA for the conditions they're installed in.

Re-roofing an older home can also trigger upgrades. The City's roofing submittal includes a Re-Roof Mitigation Package and a Roof Supplemental Acknowledgment memo, reflecting Florida Building Code, Existing Building §706 provisions under which some re-roofs require hurricane mitigation work — such as improving roof-to-wall connections or adding a secondary water barrier — depending on the home's age, value and construction. Whether those apply to your house is a question to settle before pricing, not after tear-off. We review it with you up front.

Barrel tile, country clubs and architectural review

Boca's signature roof is two-piece or S-profile barrel tile in warm Mediterranean colors, a look that traces back to Addison Mizner's 1920s buildings and carries through downtown, Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, and the large country-club communities to the west. It's heavy, long-lived and beautiful, and it brings two practical challenges.

The first is matching. Tile profiles and colors are discontinued over the decades, so a repair on a 25-year-old barrel roof may need salvaged tile or a careful blend, and a replacement usually needs the association's sign-off on a new product. The second is approval timing: country-club architectural committees commonly specify profile, color and sometimes the exact product line, and they meet on their own calendars. We prepare the submission and samples and build that wait into the schedule.

Standing-seam metal is gaining ground in Boca for its wind performance and 40–70 year life, but whether it's allowed is a community-by-community question.

Oceanfront Boca and the condo corridor

East of the Intracoastal, A1A is lined with condo buildings that take direct salt spray and onshore wind. Their roofs are mostly flat or low-slope, heavily loaded with mechanical equipment, and managed by associations. Corrosion of fasteners, flashing, equipment stands and hatches is usually what fails first, so we specify corrosion-resistant components and treat rooftop equipment as part of the roof scope rather than an afterthought.

Inland, large 55+ communities in west Boca carry the same flat-roof work at a lower salt load. In both places, Florida's post-2022 condominium laws include the roof in structural integrity reserve studies for buildings three habitable stories or higher, so boards need clear condition documentation and a realistic replacement timeline. We provide both, with scopes that compare cleanly across bids.