Margate, FL Roofing Company

Two build waves, two kinds of roof

Margate grew in a recognisable order, and the order still shows on its rooftops. The first wave, from the late 1950s through the 1960s, was single-family concrete-block homes on modest lots. Those houses were typically built with simple gable or hip roofs, and almost none of them still wear their original covering. The second wave arrived in the 1970s as condominium and 55+ communities filled the remaining land: Oriole Gardens went up between 1973 and 1979, and Holiday Springs grew as six condo villages around what was then the Carolina Club golf course.

That history means a Margate roofing estimate starts with a simple question — which wave is this building from? — because the answer changes nearly everything that follows.

• 1950s–60s single-family: usually on a second or third covering; deck re-nailing, fascia repair and full underlayment replacement are expected at tear-off.
• Additions from the 1970s and 80s: enclosed porches and Florida rooms with their own low-slope sections, which often fail before the main roof does.
• 1970s condo buildings: flat and low-slope membrane systems managed by the association, often on their third or fourth membrane since construction.
• Later infill: newer homes on scattered lots, built under more recent code editions and generally in better structural shape.

When the association is the customer

If you own a condo in Oriole Gardens or Holiday Springs, the roof over your unit almost certainly isn't yours to replace. Condominium documents generally make the roof a common element, so the association decides when it's replaced, picks the contractor and pays from reserves or a special assessment. Unit owners who call us about a ceiling stain are usually better served by reporting it to management in writing — that starts the clock on the association's responsibility.

For boards, the work is as much paperwork as roofing. Florida's post-2022 condominium safety laws (Florida Statutes §718.112) require structural integrity reserve studies for buildings three habitable stories or higher, and the roof is one of the components those studies cover. Whether or not a particular building falls under that requirement, a board needs a scope it can compare across bidders, photos of existing conditions, a realistic replacement window, and clean closeout documents for its insurer. We put that package together as part of the estimate.

Low-slope work on these buildings is priced by the building rather than by the unit — typically $6–$14 per square foot for fully adhered TPO or modified bitumen — and scheduled around residents, parking and rooftop equipment.

Permitting at 901 NW 66th Avenue

Margate runs its own building department, located at 901 NW 66th Avenue, and re-roofing is on its list of work that requires a permit. Applications use Broward's HVHZ Uniform Permit Application, and a Margate re-roof goes through the same minimum of three inspections as anywhere else in the county.

One practical note for households in 33063: the ZIP code doesn't tell you which city permits your roof. Part of 33063 is Margate and part is Coconut Creek, and the two run separate departments. We confirm the jurisdiction from the property record before filing. Margate also lets owners check permit status online, which is worth doing at the end of the job — an unclosed permit follows the property and can surface at sale or at insurance renewal. Requirements and forms change, so confirm the current checklist with the Building Department.

Seven miles inland: what that does and doesn't buy you

Margate sits roughly seven and a half miles from the Atlantic, so salt spray isn't the corrosion problem it is in Pompano Beach or Deerfield Beach. Fasteners and flashing tend to last longer here, and standard HVHZ-approved components are usually enough without upgrading to coastal-grade hardware.

What distance doesn't buy is protection from wind or rain. Hurricane-force gusts reach well inland, and the bigger day-to-day enemy for Margate's older roofs is water: afternoon thunderstorms that test every lap in a flat roof and every cracked boot on a plumbing vent. On condo buildings, ponding water that sits more than a couple of days after a storm is usually a drainage or slope problem worth fixing before it becomes a membrane problem.

The sensible rhythm is the same as elsewhere in Broward — inspect in the dry season, replace in spring if the roof is close, and get eyes on it after any named storm — but in Margate the inspection usually focuses on the parts of the roof that are older than the covering.