Tile roof replacement in Delray Beach

Delray Beach runs from the Atlantic to Jog Road, and a tile roof ages differently at each end of Atlantic Avenue. On the canals of Tropic Isle, at Pelican Harbor and the Estuary along the Intracoastal in 33483, salt is the clock. The clay barrel and concrete tile on those homes can look pristine while the valley flashing, eave drip and hip fasteners beneath them corrode to lace, and the first water through the ceiling arrives with no cracked tile anywhere. Mid-city in 33445, around the Del-aire Golf Club off Military Trail and the Andover streets off Linton Boulevard, the roofs are older and the clock is heat: felt or peel-and-stick under the tile that has spent decades in a Delray attic and now cracks at every lap. West in 33484, at Mizners Preserve and Knightsbridge of the Polo Club off Jog Road, the homes are larger and newer, the concrete tile matches a profile the architectural committee still specifies, and the committee gets a say in what goes back. Downtown, the Mallory Square townhomes carry tile over shared walls with association rules of their own. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and Delray taught us to read the address before the roof. A tile re-roof here follows an order: the community submittal where one exists, Mizners Preserve, the Polo Club, Del-aire, the downtown associations; then the City of Delray Beach permit; then the roof itself. Old tile off and sorted for salvage on hips and ridges, plywood walked sheet by sheet with soft spots cut out, new self-adhered underlayment lapped and rolled, valleys lined in metal that is stainless or heavy coated east of Federal Highway, tile loaded and laid to the county's wind-code attachment, hips and ridges bedded and screwed, with the city inspecting the dry-in and the finish. On the beach side every fastener is stainless, because we have replaced too much rusted valley on Tropic Isle to do otherwise. Free roof inspections: a roofer lifts tile at the suspect laps, photographs the felt and the plywood, and hands you an itemized scope with the price. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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