What a roof replacement costs in Palm Beach

A roof on the island of Palm Beach costs what it costs for reasons you can see from the sidewalk, and it is worth naming them before anyone quotes a number. The roofs are large and complicated: the estates along South Ocean Boulevard and the lagoon-side homes at Everglades Island and Dodge Estates carry many planes, chimneys, parapets, towers and flat sections over loggias, and every intersection is flashing and labor. The material is at the top of the ladder: blended clay barrel in a range of terracotta shades, sometimes with salvaged tile worked in, on the traditional blocks of El Encanto, Royal Park and Poinciana Park; copper or aluminum standing seam where the Town allows it; a membrane system on the flat sections. The metal is copper and stainless throughout, because a barrier island with salt from the Atlantic and the Lake Worth Lagoon destroys anything less within a few seasons, and copper valleys, copper chimney and parapet flashings and stainless fasteners are a real share of the total. The deck is often old and sometimes original, and what the plywood, the fascia and the framing at the eaves look like once the roof is bare is the biggest unknown on the job. And the Town of Palm Beach reviews the work before it is permitted, which is time rather than money but has to be in the schedule. That is the whole list. Shingle, which is the affordable rung elsewhere in the county, hardly appears in 33480. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and we do not price an island roof from an aerial photograph. A roofer measures from the roof, checks the attic and the deck, photographs the metal and the felt, and you receive an itemized scope: tear-off, deck allowance, underlayment, tile or metal, copper and stainless flashing, permit and Town review, inspections, disposal. Financing options are explained at the inspection if you ask. Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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