Is Delray Beach in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone?

No. Palm Beach County is outside the HVHZ. Products here are approved under statewide Florida Product Approval rather than Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and the design wind pressures are calculated differently. It is a genuinely different specification from Broward, and it is where contractors crossing the county line get caught out.

Do you pull the permit?

Yes. We pull the permit with the authority having jurisdiction over your address and carry the job through inspection. A contractor asking you to pull an owner-builder permit for their work is a serious warning sign.

What kind of roofs do you see most in Delray Beach?

Historic metal and tile; non-HVHZ. That shapes the likely failure — a tile roof and a low-slope membrane fail in completely different ways and on different timescales.

How quickly can you come out?

Active leaks are triaged the same day where we can reach you. After a named storm the whole county calls at once and we will give you an honest queue rather than a time we cannot make.

Do you work with HOAs and condo associations?

Regularly. Association work runs on architectural approval and a reserve schedule rather than on a homeowner decision, and the approval usually takes longer than the roof does.

Palm Beach County · Outside the HVHZ

Roof Repair and Replacement in Delray Beach

Non-HVHZ, and with a downtown historic district where the roof is visible from the street and the design guidelines say so. Older bungalows here often have metal that is worth restoring rather than replacing, which is not the advice most contractors lead with.

Book a roof inspection Call (954) 807-3208

Photographs and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, you will get that answer.

Florida counties we are licensed to build in

HVHZ

Miami-Dade and Broward product approval, done properly

A general contractor, so the structure below is our problem too

25%

The code rule that decides repair vs. replace

Code

What governs your roof here

Product approval

Florida Product Approval

Palm Beach County is outside the HVHZ. Products are approved statewide rather than through Miami-Dade, which widens the material options and changes the attachment specification. It is not a weaker standard, it is a different one.

What HVHZ actually means →

Typical roofs here

Historic metal and tile; non-HVHZ

Roof type decides the failure mode. Tile hides a failing underlayment for years; low-slope tells you immediately by holding water. Neither is worse — they just need looking at differently.

The four systems compared →

Services

What we do in Delray Beach

Roof Leak Repair

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Tile Roof Repair

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Metal Roof Repair

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Shingle Roof Repair

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Flat & Low-Slope Roofing

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Storm & Hurricane Damage

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25%

The rule that decides your job

Florida limits how much of a roof can be repaired before the entire system has to be brought to current code. Which side of that line you fall on changes the job from a few thousand dollars to a full replacement — so it gets established first, in writing, rather than discovered after the tear-off.

How the 25% rule works →

FAQ

Common questions

Is Delray Beach in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone?: No. Palm Beach County is outside the HVHZ. Products here are approved under statewide Florida Product Approval rather than Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and the design wind pressures are calculated differently. It is a genuinely different specification from Broward, and it is where contractors crossing the county line get caught out.
Do you pull the permit?: Yes. We pull the permit with the authority having jurisdiction over your address and carry the job through inspection. A contractor asking you to pull an owner-builder permit for their work is a serious warning sign.
What kind of roofs do you see most in Delray Beach?: Historic metal and tile; non-HVHZ. That shapes the likely failure — a tile roof and a low-slope membrane fail in completely different ways and on different timescales.
How quickly can you come out?: Active leaks are triaged the same day where we can reach you. After a named storm the whole county calls at once and we will give you an honest queue rather than a time we cannot make.
Do you work with HOAs and condo associations?: Regularly. Association work runs on architectural approval and a reserve schedule rather than on a homeowner decision, and the approval usually takes longer than the roof does.

Nearby

Non-HVHZ

Boca Raton

Cross the county line and the rules change: Palm Beach County is NOT in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Products here are approved under statewide Florida Product Approval rather than Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and the design wind pressures differ. A Broward roofer working here for the first time gets this wrong.

Non-HVHZ

Boynton Beach

A very large stock of 1980s and 1990s tile now at or past the age where original underlayment fails, spread across dozens of associations each with its own approved colour list. Non-HVHZ product approval applies, which widens the material options compared with Broward.

Non-HVHZ

West Palm Beach & Jupiter

The northern edge of our South Florida service area, non-HVHZ, and with the widest spread of housing age of any market we work in — 1920s El Cid bungalows through 2020s coastal construction. The roof questions in those two are not remotely the same conversation.

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Next step

Book an inspection in Delray Beach.

An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.

Book a roof inspection (954) 807-3208