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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyWe inspect Delray Beach roofs for free, with photographs and a written explanation of what each roof needs. Near Seagate and Tropic Isle we check metal and underlayment for damage.
Inside a historic district we record the existing covering and discuss any review questions that proposed work raises. On a condo building along Palm Cove Boulevard we inspect the membrane and drainage.
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Near the beach and the Intracoastal, in Seagate, Tropic Isle and the Marina District, salt takes the metal before it takes the covering, so we inspect valleys, drip edge and wall flashings for corrosion and lift tile at suspect spots to check the metal and the underlayment beneath. Where the attic is open we look for stains on the deck, daylight at the eaves and the roof-to-wall connections.
Sound-looking tile does not settle the condition of the layers under it, and on a house from around 1980 the underlayment is usually the part that is finished.
A storm inspection covers the covering, the edges and the interior. We count and photograph lifted or missing shingles and cracked or slipped tiles, check ridge caps, valley metal and the flashing at every wall and pipe, and look in the attic for wet insulation and fresh stains.
The report separates storm damage from wear, marks each item on a roof sketch, and says whether it is a repair or whether the affected area crosses the quarter-roof line. It is written for you to act on, whoever else needs to read it.
In Old School Square, Del-Ida Park, Nassau Park, the Marina District and West Settlers, we check the district boundary and photograph the existing covering, because any change to it goes to the Historic Preservation Board before the express permit. We look up the permit record on the city's eServices portal to see when the roof was last replaced; that record helps check which code it was built, repaired or replaced to, and the inspection determines how the quarter-roof rule treats a larger repair.
On a cottage we check porch tie-ins, chimney flashings and the board deck.
Call after a storm, before you close on a house, when your condo association needs a roof report, or when a ceiling stain appears. Arrange attic access and tell us where the stains are.
We inspect and photograph the roof, note the design wind speed of the lot, 170 mph east of the Intracoastal and 160 mph west of it, and write down whether the roof needs nothing, a repair, a clay barrel relay or a replacement. You receive the photographs, the written findings and a written price for any work we recommend, with the lifetime workmanship warranty and the manufacturer's warranty spelled out.
For work in Delray Beach, confirm requirements with the building department responsible for the property and complete any required historic or HOA review before ordering materials or beginning work.
The City of Delray Beach issues the roofing permit through its eServices portal, and re-roofs are express permits: with every document uploaded up front, most are issued within three business days. We confirm the permit scope before we assume a change of material has the same application as every other reroof.
Five local historic districts change the order of work: Old School Square, Nassau Park, Del-Ida Park, Marina and West Settlers. Inside a district the Historic Preservation Board reviews exterior changes first, and it has ruled on roof colour before, so the material and colour are settled before the express permit is used.
East of the Intracoastal the design wind speed is 170 mph; west of it, 160 mph. The whole city is in the wind-borne debris region. We specify a self-adhered secondary water barrier on the Delray re-roofs we build.
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We signed or completed about a dozen roofing jobs with a Delray Beach address over the last twelve months.
The look and the written report are free; a repair, a relay of clay barrel tile or a re-roof is priced separately, in writing, once you have seen the photographs.
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No. The visit, the photographs and the written report are free, whether it is a Seagate tile roof, a shingle ranch on Lake Ida or a condo membrane on Palm Cove Boulevard.
If the roof needs work you get a price in writing and the decision is yours; if it needs nothing, the report says so and you keep it for the file. There is no pressure and no follow-up sales call.
Molsbee Roofing has worked this way since 1975, and a good share of our Delray calls come by referral because of it.
Yes. An inspection changes nothing on the outside of the house, so the Historic Preservation Board has no part in it.
We photograph the existing covering, check the metal and the underlayment, and read the permit record on eServices. Only if the findings lead to work that changes the roof's appearance, a new material or a new colour, does a certificate of appropriateness come into it, and we prepare that submittal with you.
The same holds in Del-Ida Park, Nassau Park, Old School Square and West Settlers.
Yes, and on an east-side house it matters. Much of the stock east of the Intracoastal dates from around 1980, and a roof there may be on its original underlayment even if the tile above looks fine.
We inspect the covering, the metal for salt corrosion, the attic where access allows, and the permit history on eServices, which shows when the roof was last replaced and whether it was permitted. You get photographs, a written explanation and a price for any work to put in front of the seller before you sign.
Yes. Palm Cove Boulevard is on our repair books and the association has had us back.
On a low-slope condo roof we inspect the membrane seams, drains, scuppers, rooftop-unit curbs and wall tie-ins, photograph everything we can reach, and write the report in the form the board or the manager needs, with items ranked by urgency and a price against each. Standing water, rusted edge metal and a coated-over membrane are the findings that move a building from repair into re-roof, and we say so plainly.
We tell you, with the photographs that show it, and give you a written price for a replacement, or a relay where the roof is clay barrel tile, alongside any repair still worth doing, with the quarter-roof rule and the wind band explained as they apply to your lot. Nothing is urgent until you have read it.
Our page on when to replace your roof in Palm Beach County explains how those options differ. Molsbee Roofing is family-owned since 1975, licensed CCC1327429, and the phone is answered 24 hours a day at (561) 318-8624.
