Roof leak repair in west Delray Beach

Roof repair at Kings Point is the one search west Delray Beach types on its own, and it is a fair summary of the whole area's leaks. Kings Point, Valencia Palms, Grand Haven at Linton Boulevard, North Oaks and Rio Poco were built in bursts as active-adult and family communities in 33446 and 33484, and the felt under their tile has now spent the same two decades in the same hot attics; it cracks at the laps and around the pipe boots, a ceiling stains at a villa whose roof looks new from the street, and within a season the neighbors call. At Addison Reserve, Mizners Preserve and Saturnia Isles off Jog Road and Lyons Road the roofs are bigger and the leaks are more often mechanical: a skylight curb, a chimney cricket, a satellite bracket screwed through the underlayment, a long valley packed with leaves until water backed up under the tile, a flat lanai roof puddling over a seam. There is no salt this far west, so nobody is hunting corroded metal; the roofer is hunting age and penetrations, and neither shows from the ground or sits under the stain, because water runs along the felt until a nail or a lap lets it drop. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and most of the handful of roofs west Delray has given us since spring were repairs. The visit itself is unhurried and photographed: a roofer clears and probes the valleys, checks every boot and vent, opens tile where the felt looks tired, walks the lanai roof, and looks up from the attic where there is a hatch, then comes down with a picture of the hole and an itemized price to close it. A roof with life left is told so. A single failed lap or boot is fixed once. Felt that has cracked everywhere the tile comes up is shown to you in pictures, and at Kings Point that conversation goes to the association that owns the roof, a route we know well. Free roof inspections. After a storm the tarp goes on during the first visit, battened against the next gust, and the permanent repair follows once the deck has dried. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours, Monday to Sunday.