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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyThe cost of a roof replacement in Lake Park comes down to the house: a late-seventies ranch is priced mainly on size, pitch and deck, while a Kelsey City house under red tile adds the tile, the parapet flashings and the flat sections behind them. We give you the price in writing after a free roof inspection, with removal, the deck allowance, the permit through the Town and CAP, and disposal each on its own line.
On a house with historic standing we check what review the Town requires for the change before pricing it, so the figure is for a roof that can actually be built. Financing on approved credit lets you spread the cost.
Molsbee Roofing has worked Palm Beach County since 1975 as Florida Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1327429, a GAF Certified Contractor and an Owens Corning Preferred Contractor, and every re-roof carries our lifetime workmanship warranty and the manufacturers' product warranties.
Red tile costs more to buy and to lay than architectural shingle, and it is what the Spanish Eclectic and Mission houses of old Kelsey City were built with. Where the original is sound clay barrel tile, we also price detach-and-reset: lift the tile, replace the underlayment and reset the same tile, which keeps the look the review cares about.
On a later ranch the choice is yours, and we price both options on the same removal and deck assumptions so the gap is plain. On a house with historic standing, we check what review a switch needs before pricing it.
Under a twenties tile roof the deck is often wood planks rather than sheets, and its condition cannot be judged until the tile and underlayment are off. Your written price fixes the known work and carries a stated allowance for deck repair.
If boards are soft or split, we photograph them, show you and wait for your approval before replacing them. On a late-seventies ranch the same allowance and approval step apply, whatever the deck turns out to be.
Mission houses in Lake Park pair red tile with flat roof sections tucked behind low parapet walls. Those flats need their own membrane, the parapet needs new flashing and a cap, and the drains through the wall need resetting.
A quote that prices only the tile area leaves that work unpriced until the roof is open. We list each parapet, flat section and drain on the written price, so two quotes can be compared on the same work.
Houses within a mile of the Intracoastal are built to a 170 mph design wind and those to the west to 160, so fastening is set by code rather than by choice, and the code allows more than one secondary water barrier method; we specify a self-adhered one across the deck. The permit runs through the Town and CAP, which set the inspections for each job and when a tin-tag and sheathing affidavit can stand in; because fees are not refundable we file it complete.
Removal and disposal of the old roof have their own line.
For work in Lake Park, confirm requirements with the building department responsible for the property and complete any required historic or HOA review before ordering materials or beginning work.
Lake Park's permits run through the town's Community Development Department, but the building official and inspectors are contracted to CAP, so every applicant registers with CAP before filing and fees are not refundable. The town posts its own Roof Permit Checklist and accepts a tin-tag and sheathing affidavit in place of live inspection of those stages.
The town also seats a Historic Preservation Board. Kelsey City, as Lake Park was called until 1939, keeps around a hundred buildings from the 1920s Land Boom through 1950, and there the board's read on tile and parapet detail comes first.
Within a mile of the Intracoastal the design wind speed is 170 mph; west of that, 160 mph, all of it wind-borne debris region. On the re-roofs we build, a self-adhered secondary water barrier goes over the deck.
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It depends on the roof, so the figure comes in writing after a free inspection rather than from a rule of thumb. Size and pitch set the base; the covering you choose, the layers coming off and the state of the deck move it most.
The wind band for your street, the permit and disposal add their own lines. Two ranches of the same size can be priced apart when one has a sound deck and a single layer and the other needs sheathing replaced.
Compare what each quote includes before comparing totals. Line up the removal, the underlayment and secondary water barrier, the covering, the edge metal, the parapet flashings, the deck allowance, the permit and disposal.
A lower total often leaves one of those out or assumes an old layer can stay. Ask how deck damage found at tear-off is priced and approved.
On a Kelsey-era tile house, a figure that looks high may be the one quote that priced the parapets and flats.
The covering and the labour to lay it usually carry the weight of the price, and red tile raises both. After that comes the deck: plank decking under old tile is where hidden cost sits, which is why it is priced as an allowance.
Parapets and flat sections on the Mission houses add detail work, and a switch of material on a house with historic standing adds a review step before anything is ordered. Each appears on its own line.
Only up to a point. The quarter-roof rule considers how much of a roof system or section is repaired, replaced or recovered in any 12-month period.
Above a quarter, the roof covering across that entire system or section generally must be replaced or recovered to meet current code requirements. If that system or section was built, repaired or replaced in compliance with the 2007 Florida Building Code or a later edition, only the portion being worked on must meet applicable current code requirements.
We check which applies before we price. If the damage is contained, a repair or one section can be the sensible spend; if it is not, we price the repair and the whole roof side by side.
Not in the usual sense, and a no-cost roof offer deserves a careful read. The part that is free with us is the roof inspection, with photographs and a written price that lists the work item by item.
What we offer for the roof itself is financing on approved credit, so a new roof can be paid over time. Whoever you talk to, ask for the written scope and the license number before you sign.
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