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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyMolsbee Roofing repairs storm-damaged roofs in Ocean Ridge, from torn edge metal and broken tile to a lifted flat section over a lanai. A roofer photographs the damage, fits temporary cover wherever water can get in, and gives you a written price for the permanent repair, which the Town permits because every Ocean Ridge parcel lies in a flood hazard area.
The island sits in the county's 170 mph wind band, so that repair is fastened to the same rating. Family-owned since 1975, licensed CCC1327429, with the phone answered 24 hours a day at (561) 318-8624.
A storm opening needs protecting the day it is found, but the permanent repair waits for an Ocean Ridge permit, and the Town's published processing time runs from two weeks to 30 days. So the temporary cover is built to last that long: fastened down for island wind, lapped onto sound roofing and photographed once it is in place.
We check it again after further heavy weather and take it off only when the permitted repair is ready to start.
Ocean Ridge lies inside the wind-borne debris region, so storm damage here is often an impact rather than a lift: a cracked tile with punctured underlayment beneath it, a dented panel seam, a torn membrane on a lanai roof. We open the covering around each strike, photograph the layer below and mark every point on the report.
Replacing a broken piece without that check can leave behind the hole that actually lets the water in.
A large share of Ocean Ridge homes stood empty at the 2020 census, and a storm can pass with nobody there to look up at the roof. When you are away, we inspect after the weather clears, send the photographs and a written scope to wherever you are, and agree any temporary work with you by phone before it starts.
The dated photographs and the written price document the damage and the scope for your own records and for a future buyer.
A storm repair joins new work to old, so it has to meet the roof around it on equal terms. Where a stretch of covering is stripped, we lay a self-adhered secondary water barrier over the deck there before the new covering goes on.
Edge metal, valley metal and fasteners go back in a salt-grade alloy named on the quote, and new tile, panel or shingle is fastened to the island's wind rating. If the roof around the damage is too worn to take a sound tie-in, we say so and price the larger section beside the repair.
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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Keep everyone off the roof and call us, because wet tile and loose metal on an island roof are dangerous after a storm. From the yard, take pictures of each elevation and of anything lying on the ground, such as tile pieces, drip edge or ridge caps, since they show what the wind removed.
Indoors, note which ceilings are wet. A roofer then records the damage on the roof itself, covers any opening and sets out the permanent repair in writing.
It is priced from your roof after a free inspection, because storm damage ranges from a few broken tiles to a stripped slope. The figure moves with the covering and whether matching material is still made, how far the damage reached into the underlayment or deck, the salt-grade metal going back, the temporary cover, and the Town permit every repair here carries.
The written price lists each line, the photographs show why it is there, and financing is available on approved credit.
That turns on how much of the roof was damaged. If repairs, replacements or roof recovering cover more than a quarter of a roof system or section in any 12-month period, the code generally requires replacing or recovering the roof covering across that entire system or section 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. Our inspection helps determine which applies to your roof.
The photographs let us measure the damaged area, and both routes are priced in writing.
Yes. The state runs My Safe Florida Home, which offers free wind-mitigation inspections and matching grants toward upgrades such as roof-to-wall connections, deck attachment and a secondary water barrier.
The state sets eligibility, including homestead status and the age of the house, so check its current rules directly; we do not run the program. If you take part, our written scope lists each upgrade on its own line, so it is clear what the work includes.
No. Many Ocean Ridge homes carry a Boynton Beach postal address, but the island is its own town, so the permanent repair is filed with the Ocean Ridge Building Department at 6450 North Ocean Boulevard through BS&A Online.
Gulf Stream, next door, files through Highland Beach's portal instead. We confirm the parcel before any paperwork, and the Town's roof affidavit and inspection visit are already part of the written price.