Roof leak repair in Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach Gardens is a second-opinion town. The homeowner in Ballenisles or Evergrene who calls us about a brown ring on the bedroom ceiling has often already heard from somebody that the whole roof has to go, and wants to know if that is true. Sometimes it is. More often the roof has one problem, and finding it is the job. A tile roof leaks at a point: a cracked or slipped tile, a valley whose metal has given up, a pipe boot split by the sun, a skylight curb, a chimney cricket, a satellite bracket screwed through the felt. Water enters there, runs along the underlayment, and comes through the ceiling wherever it finds a nail or a seam, which can be two rooms away. Patching the ceiling and waiting fixes nothing. In the Gardens the entry points follow the map. Mirasol, Mirabella at Mirasol, the PGA Resort Community and Evergrene were tiled in the same few years and their underlayment is aging in step, cracking at the laps and around vents, so leaks arrive in clusters with no broken tile anywhere. In 33410, at Frenchmans Creek and Frenchmans Reserve, the Intracoastal is close enough that salt corrodes valley metal, drip edge and fasteners while the tile stays pretty. Horseshoe Acres West is trees and long valleys. And everywhere in the Gardens, the flat sections over lanais and garages hold water at their seams instead of shedding it. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and repair is the bulk of what we do. A roofer walks the roof and, where there is access, the attic; traces the stain uphill to the entry point; lifts tile at the suspect laps; probes the metal; photographs the hole; and hands you the pictures with an itemized price for the fix. If the roof is fine you hear that. If a repair will hold, we make it and stand behind it. If the felt has failed across the slope, the photographs say so without a pitch. Free roof inspections in 33418 and 33410. After a storm, a secured tarp comes first and the permanent repair follows once the deck is dry. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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