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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyMolsbee Roofing repairs and replaces flat and low-slope roofs in Ocean Ridge: lanais, carports and links between wings on single-family houses, and the decks of the island's condominium buildings. A roofer tests every drain, cuts small test squares to see whether the layers beneath are wet, examines each tie-in where the flat section meets a sloped roof or a wall, and gives you a written scope with every area on its own line.
Most leaks start at that tie-in, where water gets no help from gravity and the metal sits in salt air on every side, so that is where the repair is rebuilt properly rather than coated over. Every job, however small, is permitted here because every Ocean Ridge parcel falls inside a flood hazard area.
We are a third-generation family company, roofing since 1975 out of Lake Worth Beach under licence CCC1327429 as a Florida Certified Roofing Contractor, and our phone is answered 24 hours a day at 561-318-8624.
On a condominium deck, water enters at a seam, a drain or an edge termination and can run a long way under the covering before it drops through a ceiling. The unit that reports the leak is where the ceiling gave way, not where the roof failed.
So we survey the whole run, test every drain and open the covering at chosen points before quoting. The board or manager gets a photographed report that names each area, ready to act on and show to owners.
On the single-family houses of McCormick Mile and Inlet Cay, the flat roof over a lanai, a carport or a link between wings usually meets a sloped tile or shingle roof. That junction does the job gravity does elsewhere, and it is where most low-slope leaks begin.
We open it, photograph what is behind the flashing and rebuild the detail with salt-grade metal, rather than spreading coating over the symptom and waiting for the next storm.
A flat roof drains because it was designed to: scuppers, internal drains, crickets behind walls, a fall built into the insulation. If water stands for days, it finds every seam in time.
We check where the water is meant to go and cut small test squares to see whether the insulation is dry. Dry and draining, a repair or coating can make sense; wet or ponding, sealing over it traps the water and the section should be rebuilt.
Because every parcel in Ocean Ridge lies in a flood hazard area, flat roof work is permitted even when it is small, and it is filed through the town's BS&A Online portal. The sheathing and roof metal affidavit goes to the inspector on site when the inspection comes round, and we leave a secured ladder for the visit.
On a condominium building we arrange roof access with the manager, so an inspection is not lost to a locked hatch.
For work in Ocean Ridge, confirm requirements with the building department responsible for the property and complete any required historic or HOA review before ordering materials or beginning work.
Ocean Ridge issues its own permits from 6450 North Ocean Boulevard, and every application goes through BS&A Online with the town's Roofing Packet checklist, the re-roof form and the hurricane-mitigation form attached. The town publishes a processing window of two weeks to 30 days, and it flags any project reaching a little over a third of the building's value for a substantial-improvement check.
Hours are Monday to Friday 8 to 6 and Saturday 8 to 1, so a tear-off is planned around the Saturday cut-off. The town asks for a secured ladder left in place for roof inspections.
The island sits in the 170 mph wind band inside the wind-borne debris region. The code sets the secondary water barrier requirements for the re-roof; we meet them with a self-adhered membrane over the deck.
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Because the lanai has its own low-slope roof, and it fails differently. Water drains slowly across it, so the junction where it meets the main roof or a wall carries the load that gravity carries on a pitched roof.
Nearly every lanai leak we trace begins at that junction. We open it, photograph what is behind the flashing and rebuild the detail properly, with the permit filed, rather than coating over the symptom.
On the roof above and uphill of that unit, not inside it. We walk the whole low-slope area, test every drain and scupper, check the edge terminations and wall flashings, and open the covering at chosen points, because water travels far under a flat covering before it shows.
The board receives one photographed report with each area named and priced, so the repair fixes the source rather than one ceiling.
Sometimes, and when a coating is genuinely the right answer we will say so. It is the wrong answer when the section ponds, when the tie-ins have failed, or when water is trapped in the insulation, because a coating seals that water in and the roof keeps rotting while it looks fine.
We cut test squares and show you which of those applies before anyone spends money on the roof.
Yes. The whole town lies inside a flood hazard area, so the exemption other towns give minor work does not apply here.
Even a repair to a lanai roof goes through the town's BS&A Online portal, with an inspection at the end. That paperwork protects you when the house is sold, and on a shared condominium roof it gives the board a clear record of what was done.
Start with a call to 561-318-8624, or request the free roof inspection. On the visit, the low-slope areas are measured separately from the pitched roof, the drains are tested, test squares are cut where they matter, and every tie-in is examined and photographed.
You receive a written scope with those areas on their own lines: tear-off, insulation and slope, membrane, terminations and metal with grades named, drains, permit and inspections.
