Delray Beach · Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca RatonMetal roof replacement in Delray Beach
Walk the blocks between Swinton Avenue and A1A and count the metal roofs. The cottages and new builds of the Seagate and Tropic Isle streets, the Intracoastal homes at Pelican Harbor and the Estuary, the renovated bungalows off George Bush Boulevard: standing seam has become the beach-side Delray roof for a practical reason. Salt air off the Atlantic corrodes the hidden metal under a tile roof, valley flashing, drip edge, fasteners, until it leaks through pristine tile, while a metal roof built with aluminum or coastal-rated coated steel, stainless clips and hemmed edges has no hidden metal to lose. It also sheds a summer downpour instantly, holds in wind that lifts tile, and reflects heat off a low bungalow attic. Downtown at Mallory Square the townhome rooflines are shared and the association decides what may be visible from the street. Mid-city in 33445, around the Del-aire Golf Club and Andover, metal shows up on re-roofs because the owner wants to do this once. West in 33484, Mizners Preserve and Knightsbridge of the Polo Club have architectural committees whose view on metal ranges from approved profiles to not at all, and we check before quoting so nobody holds a proposal for a roof they cannot build. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton. A Delray metal roof built properly starts beneath the panels: old roof off, plywood inspected and repaired, a high-temperature self-adhered underlayment rolled over everything, and then panels formed to the length of each roof plane and fixed on concealed clips so no screw is exposed across the field to back out or weep. On the beach side the panels are aluminum or coastal-rated coated steel, the clips and fasteners stainless, the eave and rake edges hemmed and sealed, and every flashing at a wall, chimney or skylight the same metal as the roof. The City of Delray Beach permits the work and inspects at dry-in and final. Free roof inspections: a roofer measures, photographs the plywood, and writes standing seam, 5V, tile and shingle side by side for your own house. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.
Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours, Monday to Sunday.
