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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyFlat roof repair and replacement in Highland Beach mostly means the low-slope decks on the condominium towers along South Ocean Boulevard, plus the lanais, links and porch roofs on the houses behind them. We survey the whole roof rather than the spot above the leak, test the drains and scuppers, and cut small test squares to see whether the insulation underneath is wet.
You then get photographs and a written price that says plainly whether a repair, a coating or a full replacement fits, so an owner or a board can act on it. On a condominium the association is normally the owner on the permit once the developer has handed over control, so the survey is written for a board to read.
Molsbee Roofing has been family-owned since 1975 and roofs from Lake Worth Beach under Florida license CCC1327429; call (561) 318-8624, answered 24 hours a day.
Water gets under a low-slope covering at a seam, a drain or a termination and runs along the deck until it finds a way down, so the apartment with the stain is rarely under the fault. We walk the whole deck, test each outlet, examine every edge and curb, and open the covering at chosen points.
A board that commissions that survey pays for the repair once instead of chasing the same leak through several units.
Before anyone proposes a coating or an overlay, small squares are cut from the roof so the layers can be seen. If the insulation is wet, sealing over it traps the water, and the roof deteriorates out of sight while looking fine from the parapet.
The cuts are patched on the same visit, and the photographs show the board exactly what was found under the surface.
A flat roof drains because it was designed to: internal drains, scuppers, crickets behind walls and slope built into the insulation. Behind a parapet water has nowhere to go by accident, and on this island a section that holds water after rain stays wet for long stretches of the year.
We check where water is meant to leave, and whether it does, before pricing any new membrane, because a new covering over a ponding roof repeats the problem.
Flat roofs are not only a tower matter. A house in Bel Lido, Camino Cove or Highland Beach Isles can have a lanai, a link between wings or a porch roof at low slope, tied into the tile or shingle above.
The tie-in is where these leak, so we inspect the joint with the main roof, the wall flashing and the drainage path, and price the low-slope section so it meets the sloped roof properly.
For work in Highland 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.
Highland Beach runs its own Building Department at 3616 South Ocean Boulevard, and every contractor registers on the town's MyGovernmentOnline portal before filing. The town has published no review time for roofing permits, so we do not quote one.
The working calendar is written into town code. Weekdays run 8 am to 6 pm. Saturdays run 9 to 3 with no noise carrying across the lot line and no dumpsters, concrete trucks or dump trucks, which means a tear-off is staged Monday to Friday. Sundays and holidays are off.
The whole island sits in the 170 mph design wind band and the wind-borne debris region. The code sets the secondary water barrier rules for a re-roof and permits more than one method; we seal a self-adhered barrier over the deck before the new roof goes on.
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We signed or completed a few roofing jobs with a Highland Beach address over the last twelve months.
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It depends on what the survey finds. A failed drain seal or a short run of loose termination is a small repair; wet insulation across a section, soft decking or a roof that ponds needs far more.
Roof size, access, how materials are lifted and the membrane chosen all move the price. We do not quote from the street: after the free inspection you get a written price in lines, with any deck or insulation allowance shown with its rate.
When the build-up is wet across large areas, the terminations have failed around most of the perimeter, or the roof ponds because its slope was never right. Patching those conditions only delays the same work.
The typical Highland Beach building is decades old, so we also check the permit record to see how old the current roof really is, and the board gets both options priced so the difference is clear.
Sometimes. A coating can suit a roof that drains well, has sound terminations and a dry build-up, and where it fits we will say so.
It is the wrong choice over wet insulation, because it seals the water in, and it does nothing for a roof that ponds. We cut test squares and show the board which case it has before anyone votes on a number, so the choice rests on evidence.
Almost always the association. Where the developer has turned control over to the association, it counts as the owner for permitting as well, so the decision, the permit and the spending sit with the board.
A unit owner's part is to report the leak promptly, give access to the unit when it is needed, and leave the board to commission a survey of the whole roof rather than a patch over a single room.
Not for permitted roof work. Highland Beach requires every contractor to register on its MyGovernmentOnline portal before filing, and re-covering or rebuilding a section of a low-slope roof goes through the Town Building Department.
Molsbee Roofing is a Florida Certified Roofing Contractor, licensed CCC1327429. For a condominium, ask any contractor for the license number and a written scope before the board votes.
