Tile roof replacement in Lantana

Lantana is the town next door to our yard, across the Lake Worth Beach line, and its tile roofs split by the water the way most of the coast does. East of the Intracoastal, Hypoluxo Island, Point Manalapan and Hypoluxo Beach sit in salt from the lagoon and the ocean, and there the concrete or clay tile outlives the galvanized valley liners, drip edge and cap nails beneath it by a wide margin; a roof that looks flawless from Ocean Avenue can be running water down rusted metal into a ceiling. West of Dixie Highway, at Lake Shores Lantana, Hypoluxo Park, Las Brisas and Lantana Point in 33462, the wear is heat rather than salt: felt under the tile that has spent decades in an attic and cracks at the laps, so a street tiled together stains ceilings together. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and Lantana is a few minutes down Dixie for us. A Lantana tile re-roof runs in the order the town requires: the association's say first where there is one, Hypoluxo Island or Las Brisas, the Town of Lantana permit second, the roof third. On the roof the sequence is tear-off with sound tile set aside for hips and ridges, a board-by-board walk of the plywood with rot and salt-softened fascia cut out, new self-adhered underlayment, valleys in stainless or copper east of the bridge, tile set to the county's wind-code attachment on stainless or coated fasteners, caps bedded and screwed, and the town's inspections at the dry-in and the finish. The free inspection that starts it all is a roofer lifting tile at the suspect laps, photographing felt, deck and metal, and handing you an itemized scope. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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