What a roof replacement costs in Lake Worth Beach

We can talk about roof prices in Lake Worth Beach with more confidence than anywhere else, because this is the town we work from and the one where we have done the most roofs relative to its size. The honest lesson is that the city has three kinds of roof and three kinds of price. A College Park or downtown bungalow from the nineteen-twenties is small, but it carries clay barrel, plank sheathing with a century of small leaks behind it, chimneys, dormers and porch tie-ins, and a Historic Preservation Board review before the permit, so it prices higher per square than its size suggests. A postwar block house in North Lake Worth, Blackwell Park or Lakeside Palms is the simplest roof in the city: a low hip or gable, concrete tile or shingle, plywood underneath, no review, and it sits toward the low end of what a full roof costs in Palm Beach County by its size and shape alone. A lagoon-side house at Harbor Estates, Bella Vista Estates or Indigo Waters is larger and carries the coastal metal line, stainless or copper valleys, drip edge and fasteners and aluminum panels if the roof is metal, because Intracoastal salt destroys anything less. Within each kind, the arithmetic is the county's: squares and pitch, material, what comes off and what the deck looks like under it, and how many valleys, chimneys and tie-ins need flashing. Shingle is the affordable rung, concrete tile the middle, clay barrel and standing seam the top, flat sections priced by their own rules. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, from this town, and we have done about a dozen roofs here since spring. We still do not price a Lake Worth Beach roof from an aerial photograph or a neighbor's invoice. A roofer measures from the roof, checks the attic and the sheathing, photographs what is there, and you receive an itemized scope for tile, metal and shingle side by side, permitted through the City of Lake Worth Beach. Financing options are explained at the inspection if you ask. Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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