Roofing License: #CCC1327429(561) 318-8624
    Molsbee Roofing
    Ocean Ridge / Gulf Stream · Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton

    Roof leak repair in Ocean Ridge

    An Ocean Ridge leak almost always starts in the metal, and the reason is the map: the Atlantic on one side of A1A, the Intracoastal on the other, the Boynton Inlet cutting through the north end of town. Salt from three directions works on every galvanized valley liner, every plain steel cap nail, every length of drip edge and every chimney or parapet flashing that was not stainless or copper, and the roof looks perfect from the road while water follows a rusted valley into a ceiling. That is the pattern at Inlet Cay and the Ocean Ridge Yacht Club on the water, at Ridge Harbour Estates and Pelican Cove, and along A1A at Palm Beach Shore Acres and Place Au Soliel alike. The second pattern is age: under some island roofs the felt has spent decades in an attic that bakes and cracks at the laps, so a roof weeps at once with not one broken tile. The third is the flat sections over garages and loggias that hold water after every storm and leak at their seams and scuppers. And on any of them the stain is not the leak; water travels along the felt or the membrane until a nail or a seam lets it drop, often rooms away. Ocean Ridge is a short drive down A1A or over the Boynton bridge from our Lake Worth Beach yard, and repairs here follow one discipline: find the hole before touching the ceiling. A Molsbee roofer starts at the ridge and works down with an awl and a camera, probing valley and eave metal, opening tile where the felt looks tired, checking the flat sections at their seams and scuppers, and looking from the attic side where a hatch allows. You get the photograph of the entry point and an itemized price for closing it. Sound roofs are reported sound; corroded metal is replaced in stainless or copper and stays replaced; felt that has failed across a slope is shown to you in pictures before the word replacement is used. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton. Free roof inspections in 33435 and 33483. A storm opening gets a battened tarp on the first visit and the permanent repair once the deck has dried. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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    Neighborhoods we work in

    • Mc Cormick Mile
    • Place Au Soliel
    • Boynton Beach Park
    • Inlet Cay
    • Palm Beach Shore Acres
    • Ocean Ridge Yacht Club
    • Ridge Harbour Estates
    • Pelican Cove

    ZIP 33435, 33483

    What it costs

    Most repairs we have priced across Palm Beach County since spring cost a small fraction of a replacement: a boot or flashing at the low end, a rebuilt valley or new underlayment at the high end.

    The island repair: rusted galvanized out, stainless or copper in

    When an Ocean Ridge valley has rusted through it is cut out, not caulked over, and relined in stainless or copper. Drip edge that has flaked to nothing is renewed the length of the eave. Corroded hip and ridge nails are pulled and the caps re-bedded on stainless screws. A chimney or parapet flashing eaten at its seam is rebuilt in copper. The tile around the work is stacked and relaid so the repair disappears from A1A. It costs more than a mainland patch, and it is the last time that valley leaks in salt air.

    Flat sections over garages and loggias

    Many Ocean Ridge homes carry flat or low-slope roofs over garages, loggias and wings, and those sections hold water instead of shedding it. They leak at split seams, at scuppers and drains the salt has corroded, and at the flashing where the flat roof meets the tile. We find the entry point, repair with the membrane's own system so the patch bonds, rebuild the corroded metal in stainless, clear the drainage, and say plainly whether the section has years left or is a re-cover waiting for the Town's approval.

    When it is the felt, not the metal

    Under some island roofs the underlayment has simply had its summers: cracked at the laps and around every vent while the tile above looks new. The fix lifts a course or two above the failure, cuts the cracked felt back to sound material, laps in new self-adhered membrane, replaces the split boot with lead or a sun-rated boot, and relays the tile. It holds for years while the surrounding felt is supple; when a probe finds it brittle across the slope, we say so before you pay for a bridge.

    Storm nights on the island

    When an Atlantic squall opens a roof at Palm Beach Shore Acres or Inlet Cay, the first visit brings a tarp, battens and a camera. The opening is covered and fastened so the next gust does not take it, the damage is photographed for your records, and the lasting repair is booked for the first dry day the deck will hold membrane and mortar: tile reset from the salvage stack, caps re-bedded, seams re-welded, fascia renewed. You get an arrival time we can keep rather than one the weather will break.

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