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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyA leaking roof in east Boynton Beach gets a free inspection from Molsbee Roofing, and the roofer follows the water back to the spot where it enters. You get photographs of the source and a written repair price, and nothing is opened until you approve it.
On the seventies houses near Ocean Avenue and in Chapel Hill the culprit is usually a pipe boot, a valley or a Florida room tie-in; in the condo villages it is often a seam or drain well away from the stain. Founded by Don Molsbee and still family-run, we work from a shop up Federal Highway in Lake Worth Beach.
The repair carries our lifetime workmanship warranty and the manufacturers' product warranties on new material, and we are a GAF Certified Contractor and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor.
Around Ocean Avenue, Chapel Hill and Lake Boynton Estates, the houses are mostly from the seventies and many roofs have been replaced at least once. Leaks there start in a handful of places: a cracked pipe boot, a valley where leaves hold water, loose drip edge at the eave, and the seam where a flat Florida room roof meets the shingle above.
We repair the detail that failed and the material around it rather than smearing sealant on the surface, and the photographs show you both.
In Sterling Village, Leisureville and Hampshire Gardens, one low-slope roof often covers several units, and water can run along the deck before it drops into a ceiling well away from where it entered. We walk the whole building roof, check the seams, drains, scuppers and parapet flashing uphill of the stain, and name the building and roof area in the report.
Because the association usually owns the roof, the board or its manager authorizes the repair, and they see the same photographs the owner does.
We start inside, in the attic where there is access, and follow the stain on the deck back up the rafters. On the roof we check the likely details first, then run water over one section at a time, starting low, until the drip shows inside.
On shingle we lift the tabs uphill of the stain to look at the nails and the underlayment; on a condo membrane we probe the seams and the drain clamping ring. If the source is still hidden, we propose a small, controlled opening, explain what it will tell us and include closing it in the price.
On the Marina District streets and the blocks east of Federal Highway, salt off the Intracoastal eats the metal long before it wears out the shingle or tile. Leaks there come through rusted valley metal, wall and chimney flashing, and edge metal lifting at its fasteners, while the roof around them still looks sound.
We cut out the corroded pieces and fit new flashing in a corrosion-resistant grade, because a coating brushed over rust only holds until the next wet season.
Whether a leak repair in Boynton Beach needs a permit depends on its size, and we tell you before we quote.
Boynton Beach runs an instant permit process for roofing: on SagesGov, a licensed roofing contractor's one- and two-family re-roof is issued automatically once the documents are uploaded and the fee is paid. That puts the schedule in the roofer's hands, not the city's, so the question to ask is which week the tear-off lands.
Inspections are booked by 3 pm the day before and run progressively: sheathing, tin tag or roof metal, and final. Under the city's amendment a licensed roofer may substitute a notarized affidavit with colour photos for the sheathing re-nail, roof metal and underlayment checks; we tell you which one applies to your roof. The mainland is 160 mph and the Intracoastal frontage 170 mph.
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Two things set it: which detail failed and how much the water has damaged since; you get the figure in writing after the free inspection. A cracked pipe boot or a short run of loose flashing sits at the low end.
Rotted decking under a valley, a rebuilt Florida room tie-in or a section of condo membrane costs more, because the work goes below the surface. The written price names the repair, the materials and anything that could change once the area is open, so you approve the full scope.
When the scope needs a permit, we file it on SagesGov with the City of Boynton Beach Building Division, and the city sets which inspections apply.
Rarely. The quarter-roof rule considers how much of a roof system or section is repaired, replaced or recovered in any 12-month period.
Above a quarter, the roof covering across that entire system or section generally must be replaced or recovered to meet current code requirements. If that system or section was built, repaired or replaced in compliance with the 2007 Florida Building Code or a later edition, only the portion being worked on must meet applicable current code requirements.
We check which applies before we price. An ordinary leak repair covers far less than that.
We measure the damaged area and tell you in writing where your repair stands.
Protect the inside and stay off the roof. Move furniture and electronics out from under the drip and catch the water in a bucket.
If the ceiling is sagging or the water is near a light fixture, keep everyone out of that room and away from the fixture, and call us. Photograph the stain and note when it drips, because the timing helps us find the source.
Once it is safe to go up, we fasten a tarp or a temporary dry-in over the area until the permanent repair.
A roofer can usually slow it, but the lasting repair waits for a dry roof. In rain and wind, going up is only safe for a short, careful job such as fastening a tarp or closing an obvious opening.
Underlayment, flashing and membrane need dry surfaces to bond and seal, so the permanent work is done once the roof has dried out. We tell you which part is temporary and which is permanent, and both are written into the scope.
Call the association or its manager first, because in the condo villages the roof is usually common property and the board authorizes any work on it. We can still come out: tell us the building, your unit and where the water shows, and we inspect the roof above it and the areas uphill.
The report and the written price go to whoever the association names, with a copy for you, so everyone works from the same findings.