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Roof Inspection · Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1332751 · General Contractor CGC1528750
We inspect roofs across Palm Beach Gardens, from the concrete-block homes of the 1960s and 70s to the tile roofs of the golf and country-club communities. Florida Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1332751 photographs every slope with dates and tells you plainly whether the roof needs a repair, a re-roof or nothing.
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Randolph Scott Bell is the only Palm Beach County contractor who is also a certified energy engineer, and the owner inspects every job himself. Every roofing estimate in Palm Beach Gardens includes a free wind-mitigation & energy walk-through, and every job carries a written one-year workmanship warranty. Financing available through our partner Renew Financial’s RenewPACE program — designed for energy and storm-protection upgrades like impact windows and new roofs. Ask us about eligibility.
What You Get
We inspect the roof covering, ridges, hips and valleys, flashing and penetrations, drainage, and the attic side of the deck where it can be reached. Everything is photographed and dated.
Insurance Reality
Many Palm Beach Gardens homes are on a second roof or an older one, and insurers know to ask. Florida homeowners are commonly asked for a roof condition report, a 4-point inspection or a wind-mitigation inspection when they buy, renew or hold an older roof. These are three different documents, so ask your insurer exactly which one it wants before you book anyone.
Our inspection gives you a dated, documented picture of the roof. It is not a guarantee that any insurer will renew, discount or approve anything, and this is general information, not insurance or legal advice. For the rules on roof age, read the roof age and Florida insurance guide; after a storm, see the hurricane roof damage and insurance claim guide.
Palm Beach Gardens Roofs
The original MacArthur-era neighborhoods date to the 1960s and 70s: single-story concrete block, modest footprints, and roofs well past their first service life, often re-covered more than once. There we look hard at the deck, fasteners and flashing details instead of judging the surface. Because those homes were built before 1978, our EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm status (#NAT-F122701-2) matters on any work that disturbs painted surfaces.
The golf and country-club build-out of the 1980s through the 2000s brought barrel tile, and those roofs are now cycling through repairs and second roofs; tile fails at its underlayment and flashing long before the tile itself breaks. Newer communities such as Alton and Avenir are mostly warranty-age, so an inspection there is usually about documentation, not defects.
Permits, Wind & Trees
Palm Beach Gardens permits through its own Building Division at 10500 N Military Trail (561-799-4210), through an online portal, not through unincorporated Palm Beach County. We confirm from the parcel record that your address is inside the city limits before we quote. A re-roof needs a permit held by a licensed roofing contractor.
The city sits in the Florida Building Code’s Wind-Borne Debris Region, and the design wind speed is set by your specific address, climbing as you move east toward the Intracoastal. Salt air on the eastern side corrodes roof fasteners and flashing faster than inland. The city also keeps a City Forester, and tree removal or pruning can need approval, which matters on a roof job when branches have to come back for a tear-off or a truck.
HOA Review
Most of Palm Beach Gardens is inside a community association, among them PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman’s Creek, Frenchman’s Reserve, Eastpointe, Mirasol, Evergrene, Alton and Avenir. Their architectural review boards commonly approve tile profile and colour before a permit is filed. If an inspection leads to a replacement, our report documents the roof type and condition you will be asking the board to change.
Proof
Bell Engineering and Construction Corporation holds Florida STATE-CERTIFIED Roofing Contractor license CCC1332751 and Certified General Contractor license CGC1528750; certified means we may contract in any Florida county. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm #NAT-F122701-2 and BBB A+ accredited since 2021. We hold the Palm Beach County Business Tax Receipt; we do not claim a City of Palm Beach Gardens one. We have no confirmed Palm Beach Gardens project to show you, so we lead with the credentials above, which you can verify yourself on the state’s DBPR site (myfloridalicense.com). The company has operated continuously since February 2009.
Also in Palm Beach Gardens
If the inspection turns up more than a roof: construction in Palm Beach Gardens covers the impact windows and remodels that often follow a roof decision, and the architectural-review submittals that go with them; property management in Palm Beach Gardens is for an association that needs roofs looked at across several buildings; land services in Palm Beach Gardens handles the storm debris and site clearing around a house; and America food truck catering in Palm Beach Gardens is there for the job-site lunch or the finished-roof party.
Questions, Answered
The City of Palm Beach Gardens issues its own. Its Building Division is at 10500 N Military Trail (561-799-4210) and takes applications through the city's online permitting portal. A licensed roofing contractor holds the permit. Some addresses with a Palm Beach Gardens mailing address sit in unincorporated county instead, so we confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel record before we quote.
We look at the roof covering, ridges, hips and valleys, flashing and penetrations, drainage and the attic side of the deck where it can be reached, and photograph what we find with dates. You get plain findings: repair, re-roof or leave it alone. Every roofing estimate is free and comes with a wind-mitigation & energy walk-through.
Florida insurers commonly ask for a roof condition report, a 4-point inspection or a wind-mitigation inspection when a policy is written or renewed, and the age of the roof is usually part of the question. They are three different documents, so ask your insurer in writing which one it wants. Our inspection documents the roof; it does not guarantee that any insurer will renew, discount or approve anything. This is general information, not insurance advice.
Usually, yes. Most of Palm Beach Gardens sits inside a community association, and its architectural review board commonly has to approve tile profile, tile or shingle colour and similar visible details before the city sees a permit application. We read the standard for your address, prepare the product and colour submittal, and coordinate the board approval with the city permit so the job does not stall between the two.
Possibly. The city keeps a City Forester to protect its canopy and regulates removing, and in some cases pruning, trees and palms. A tear-off or a delivery truck may need branches cleared, so we plan access and canopy clearance at the estimate and check what approval applies rather than finding out on the day.
Yes. In the eastern part of the city, salt-laden air corrodes roofing fasteners, drip edge and flashing faster than it does a few miles inland, and a roof can look fine from the street while its attachment is weakening. On coastal-side roofs we check fasteners and flashing closely and say so plainly if they are the problem.
Free estimate, a free wind-mitigation & energy walk-through, and a licensed roofer who inspects the work himself.