Roof leak repair in Delray Beach

Nobody in Palm Beach County searches for flat roof repair the way Delray Beach does, and the town's roofs explain it. From the beach cottages of 33483 to the mid-century ranches around the Del-aire Golf Club and Andover in 33445, Delray has an unusual share of flat and low-slope roofing: whole houses, wings, additions, garages, lanais. Water does not run off a flat roof. It sits, and a split seam, a clogged scupper, or a failed flashing where the flat section meets a tile roof becomes a ceiling stain long before anyone sees a drip. The tile roofs have their own map. On the canals of Tropic Isle, at Pelican Harbor and the Estuary, salt corrodes valley metal, drip edge and hip fasteners under tile that looks perfect. West at Mizners Preserve and Knightsbridge of the Polo Club, and mid-city at Andover, the felt under the tile is cracking at the laps after decades of attic heat, so leaks show up on a whole street at once with no broken tile anywhere. Downtown at Mallory Square the townhome roofs meet at parapets and shared walls and leak at the joints. In every case the stain is not the leak: water enters at a point and travels along the underlayment or the membrane until it finds a way down, often rooms away, so patching the ceiling fixes nothing. A Delray leak repair starts on the roof. A roofer walks it and the attic where there is access, traces the stain uphill, lifts tile at the suspect laps or probes the membrane at the seams, photographs the entry point, and hands you the pictures with an itemized price for exactly that fix. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and repairs are the bulk of our work. If the roof is fine, that is what you hear. If a repair will hold, we make it and stand behind it. If the membrane is spent across the section or the felt has failed across the slope, the photographs say so without a pitch. Free roof inspections in 33483, 33445 and 33484. After a storm, a secured tarp comes first and the permanent repair follows once the deck is dry. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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