Roofing in Lake Park

Lake Park sits between Riviera Beach and North Palm Beach on the west shore of the Lake Worth Lagoon, with the harbor marina and the Kelsey Park waterfront on one side and Federal Highway and the interstate on the other. The housing runs from nineteen-twenties bungalows near Park Avenue to postwar ranches west of Federal Highway to renovated and rebuilt homes along the water, and the roofs are just as varied: shingle, tile, flat sections on additions, metal on the newer construction.

Near the lagoon, salt corrodes valley metal, drip edge and fasteners under intact roofing; inland, heat does the slower damage to shingle and to the felt under tile. An inspection in Lake Park starts by asking which of those two climates the house lives in, then looks at the metal, the valleys and the layer under the roofing.

Most Lake Park calls are repairs. Near the water the leak is usually in the metal: a rusted valley, flaking drip edge, corroded hip and ridge fasteners, all of which we replace in stainless or coated metal so the repair does not come back in two seasons.

Inland it is a split pipe boot, a cracked or slipped tile, curled shingle, a clogged valley, or the flashing where an addition or carport roof meets the house. The ceiling stain is rarely under the entry point because water travels along the underlayment before it drops, so the roofer traces it from the roof and the attic, photographs the source, repairs it with matching materials and hands you an itemized price before starting.

After a storm a secured tarp comes first and the permanent repair follows once the deck is dry.

Architectural shingle is the affordable rung and a sound roof on the postwar ranches west of Federal Highway, laid over new self-adhered underlayment to Florida wind code. Concrete tile matches the homes built with it and lasts decades when the underlayment is done right.

Standing-seam metal sits near tile in price and is the natural choice along the lagoon, in aluminum with stainless fasteners so the salt has nothing to eat. On the older bungalows near Park Avenue, we check whether the sheathing is plank before quoting, because that changes the deck allowance.

Every replacement strips to the deck, replaces soft wood, lays new underlayment, installs the roofing, and is permitted and inspected at dry-in and final through the Town of Lake Park.

1. Lake Park's business district on Park Avenue, the plazas and shops along Federal Highway, the marina buildings and the warehouses toward the interstate mostly sit under flat and low-slope roofs in TPO, modified bitumen or older built-up systems. Those roofs hold water and fail at seams, drains and edge metal, and near the lagoon the salt speeds all of it.
2. Owners and property managers receive a written survey with photographs, a scope and price, and a staging plan that keeps tenants open while the work happens overhead. Repair, coating or replacement is decided by the survey, not the sales sheet, and roof inspections and repairs keep a sound roof sound between them.

Molsbee Roofing is a family business since 1975, licensed CCC1327429, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton; Lake Park is a straight run north for us. Every job is permitted through the Town of Lake Park and inspected.

Every price is itemized and in writing before work starts, with a deck allowance based on what the roofer actually found, and financing options explained at the inspection if you ask. Full replacements we have priced across the county since spring have landed in the county's typical range; your roof is quoted from a measurement.

Free roof inspections for homeowners and for business and building owners. Call 561-318-8624, phone answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Lake Park began as Kelsey City in the 1920s, and a hundred of its buildings from the land boom through 1950 survive: Spanish Eclectic houses with low-pitched red tile, Mission houses with parapet flats, Craftsman bungalows. In Palm Beach County a shingle roof generally lasts 13 to 18 years, tile 15 to 20, metal 20 to 25, and a flat roof 15 to 20.

On those the tile and the parapet flashing are the job, and the town's Historic Preservation Board has a say before the permit. The rest of the town is 1977-median ranches on their second or third roof.

The town faces the Intracoastal and Singer Island, so the streets near the water sit in the higher wind band with salt. Lake Park contracts its building official to an outside firm and accepts tin-tag and sheathing affidavits, so on a plain ranch the permit is a short one.