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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyMolsbee Roofing replaces tile roofs in Royal Palm Beach, with new concrete tile over new self-adhered underlayment, or on clay barrel tile by resetting your own tile over new underlayment, and it starts with a free inspection where we lift tile and photograph what is underneath. The typical house in the village was built around the start of the nineties, and those roofs are at the age where the underlayment gives out while the tile still looks good.
We have re-roofed a row of attached villas on Fairways Lane one unit at a time, plus houses on Queens Lane in Crestwood and Bilbao Street in La Mancha, from our shop in Lake Worth Beach. You get a written, line-by-line price for the path that fits your roof; Florida Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1327429, and (561) 318-8624 is answered 24 hours a day.
On a clay barrel roof with sound tile in a profile still made, we lift every piece, lay new self-adhered underlayment, replace the flashings and reset the same tile, filling gaps with matching new pieces. Concrete tile is not relaid: the old roof comes off and new concrete tile goes on over new underlayment, as it does when a barrel profile is out of production or walked to pieces.
Either path ends with a sealed, self-adhered secondary water barrier on the deck.
On Fairways Lane we re-roofed a row of villas one unit at a time across a year, and that job set our rules for attached tile. The new tile has to match the neighbours' in profile and colour or the row looks patched.
The tie-in at the party wall is flashed so neither unit can leak into the other, and the work is timed around the people next door. We photograph the match and the tie-in on every unit before we leave.
Concrete tile is heavy, so a house that was built for shingle needs its trusses checked before it can carry tile. Tile cracks when it is walked on carelessly, and a roof that has had painters, antenna installers and pressure washers on it often has more broken pieces than you can see from the driveway.
And the tile outlasts the felt beneath it, so a roof can look tidy from the street while the layer that keeps water out has worn through. None of that rules tile out; it shapes how we plan and price the job.
Our work in the village over the last year includes seven villa units on Fairways Lane, re-roofed one at a time, and full re-roofs on Queens Lane in Crestwood and Bilbao Street in La Mancha. Most of it reached us by referral from neighbours, and fewer of our quotes are lost here than in any town its size.
We photograph each roof as the old layers come off, so you see your own deck and underlayment rather than a stock picture.
For work in Royal Palm Beach, confirm requirements with the building department responsible for the property and complete any required historic or HOA review before ordering materials or beginning work.
Royal Palm Beach's Building Department at 1050 Royal Palm Beach Boulevard takes the roofing permit on ProjectDox, where a Contractor Data Sheet replaces the paper application. The village publishes its review time: 7 to 10 business days for residential, 15 to 30 for commercial, and a permit stays valid for 180 days.
Roofs carry two village forms, the Re-Roof Nailing Affidavit and the Roof Spec Sheet. Inspections are booked on the automated line with a three-digit code, and the inspector's arrival window is given by phone between 7:30 and 8:30 in the morning.
The village is about 15 miles inland, in the 160 mph wind band and the wind-borne debris region. Our covering replacements include a self-adhered secondary water barrier.
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We signed or completed about a dozen roofing jobs with a Royal Palm Beach address over the last twelve months.
Full re-roofs in Royal Palm Beach came in between about $4,200 and $23,200 for us last year; the middle was around $11,100, pulled down by attached villas done one unit at a time.
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The range shown above comes from our own signed full re-roofs in the village over the last year. Its middle is pulled down by attached villas done one unit at a time, so a whole detached house on a canal lot lands toward the top.
On a clay barrel roof, resetting your own tile over new underlayment is priced beside new tile, and soft plywood found at tear-off is the item that moves a price once work starts. After the free inspection you get the options that fit your roof priced in writing.
Tile usually outlasts the underlayment beneath it, and it is the underlayment that keeps the water out. On a Royal Palm Beach house from around the start of the nineties, that often means sound tile over felt that has given out; on clay barrel tile we can reset the same tile over new self-adhered underlayment, while a concrete tile roof is priced as new tile over new underlayment.
Sun, heat and the leaf litter from a village full of shade trees all wear on a roof, so we judge yours by lifting tile rather than by its age alone.
Broken tiles can be swapped on their own when the underlayment below them is sound; that is a repair, not a re-roof. The quarter-roof rule considers how much of a roof system or section is repaired, replaced or recovered in any 12-month period.
Above a quarter, the roof covering across that entire system or section generally must be replaced or recovered 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.
We check which applies before we price. A tile repair that keeps spreading can cross that line, so we measure the damaged area before we price it.
Yes, and we have done a whole row on Fairways Lane that way. Two things matter: the tile match with the units on either side, and the flashing at the party wall where the new roof meets the old one.
We photograph both before we leave. If the neighbours want to go at the same time, the row can share a permit set and a single tile order, which keeps the colour even along the row.
Either way, the association's letter comes before the village permit.
Most of the calendar is paperwork, not roofing. The village publishes its residential permit review time and keeps to it, which makes it one of the more predictable desks in the county.
Behind a gate, the association's approval of the tile profile and colour comes first and is usually the slower half. Once the permit is issued the work has to start inside its validity window, so we order tile only when the colour is settled and the dates are fixed with you.
