Tile roof replacement in Ocean Ridge

Ocean Ridge is a few blocks wide between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, with the Boynton Inlet cutting through its north end, and a tile roof here is judged by the metal you cannot see. From Inlet Cay and the Ocean Ridge Yacht Club on the water to Ridge Harbour Estates, Pelican Cove, Palm Beach Shore Acres and Place Au Soliel along A1A, in 33435 and 33483, salt reaches every roof from three directions. The concrete or clay tile barely notices. The galvanized valley liners, drip edge and hip and ridge nails beneath it rust to lace, and a roof that photographs beautifully from A1A can be running water down a rusted valley into a ceiling. The Town of Ocean Ridge also cares how a roof looks: profile, color blend and cap treatment are reviewed before a permit issues, and the estate streets and the Yacht Club notice a roof that reads as new and flat. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and Ocean Ridge is a short drive down A1A or over the Boynton bridge. A tile re-roof here begins with the Town and any community review, at the Yacht Club or Pelican Cove; then the permit; then the roof: old tile stripped and sorted, with sound clay saved for hips and ridges so the new roof reads as the old one; plywood walked sheet by sheet and rot and salt-eaten fascia cut out; new self-adhered underlayment lapped and rolled; every valley lined in stainless or copper; tile loaded, blended and laid to the county's wind-code attachment on stainless fasteners; caps bedded and screwed with stainless; Town inspections at dry-in and final. Stainless and copper are the specification on this island, not an upgrade. Free roof inspections: a roofer lifts tile at the suspect laps, photographs the felt, the deck and the metal, and hands you an itemized scope with the price. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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