Roof leak repair in Palm Beach

A leak on the island of Palm Beach almost never starts in the tile. It starts in the metal. Salt from the Atlantic on one side and the Lake Worth Lagoon on the other works on every galvanized valley, every plain steel fastener, every piece of drip edge and every chimney or parapet flashing that was not copper or stainless, and the roof looks perfect from South County Road while water follows a rusted valley into a plaster ceiling. That is the pattern in El Encanto, Royal Park and Poinciana Park, on the South Ocean Boulevard estates, and on the lagoon side at Everglades Island and Dodge Estates alike. The second pattern is age. Some island roofs carry underlayment that has spent decades under clay in an attic that bakes, and when that felt cracks at the laps a whole roof can start weeping at once with not one broken tile. The third is the roof's own complexity: chimneys, parapets, towers, flat sections over loggias and garages, and copper porch roofs with soldered seams, every one of them a place water can enter. And on any of them, the stain is not the leak. Water travels along the felt or the flat membrane until a nail or a seam lets it drop, often rooms away, so patching the ceiling and waiting fixes nothing. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and repairs are the bulk of our work. On the island a roofer walks the roof and the attic where there is access, traces the stain uphill, probes the valley and eave metal, lifts tile at the suspect laps, checks the flat sections and the soldered seams, photographs the entry point and hands you the pictures with an itemized price for exactly that repair. If the roof is sound you hear that. If a copper valley and new stainless fasteners will hold it for years, that is the job, and we stand behind it. If the felt has failed across the slope, the photographs make the case without a pitch. Free roof inspections in 33480. 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.