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Lifetime Workmanship WarrantyWe repair and replace flat and low-slope roofs in Tequesta: lanais, carports, the links between wings and the flat runs on the village's older houses. A roofer tests whether water actually leaves the section, opens the tie-in where it meets the sloped roof, and after a free inspection gives you a written price for a repair or a new membrane.
Under the trees near Tequesta Country Club most flat roof failures start at a blocked drain or scupper, while on the river side toward the Intracoastal and Jupiter Inlet the edge metal and terminations go first. Molsbee Roofing, founded by Don Molsbee and still family-run, has worked low-slope roofs across Palm Beach County since 1975; license CCC1327429, Carlisle-certified for TPO, and 561-318-8624 is answered at any hour.
Under the old trees around the Country Club, the drains and scuppers on a lanai fill with leaves, and a section that drains well in spring can hold standing water by autumn. Most flat roof failures we see under tree cover start there or are made worse by it.
So the first test on any low-slope section is whether water actually leaves, and clearing and screening the outlets is often a small line on the estimate.
Where a flat section runs under the sloped roof or turns up a wall, a strip of metal and a termination do the job gravity does everywhere else. On a leaking Tequesta lanai the trail leads back to that junction far more often than to the middle of the deck.
A proper repair takes the junction apart and rebuilds it with new flashing, rather than spreading a coating across the seam and hoping.
A section that has ponded under trees for a few seasons often has water inside the build-up, and sealing over it traps that water and buys quiet rather than a repair. We cut small test squares, look at the layers, and patch them closed.
On a riverside house in Riverside Oaks we also check the edge metal for salt wear. The squares decide whether the membrane can be repaired or has to come off.
A low-slope section is a different system from the roof beside it, so we measure it separately and give it its own lines: tear-off, insulation and fall, membrane, terminations and metal, drains and screens. The permit goes to the Village through BS&A Online; in Jupiter Inlet Colony it goes to the Colony's own desk instead.
You see all of it before work starts.
For work in Tequesta, confirm requirements with the building department responsible for the property and complete any required historic or HOA review before ordering materials or beginning work.
Tequesta and Jupiter Inlet Colony are two small permit desks that run differently. The Village of Tequesta files through BS&A Online from its Building Department at 345 Tequesta Drive, with fees set by job value. Jupiter Inlet Colony uses My Government Online, books inspections by 5 pm for the next day, and sends major renovations to its Building and Zoning Committee before a permit application is made.
Both sit in the 170 mph band and the wind-borne debris region. The village says certain low-lying neighbourhoods are subject to considerable flood damage and publishes its own flood map with live Loxahatchee River tide gauges. Tequesta's median home dates to 1977; the Colony's dates to 1989. In both towns our re-roofs carry a self-adhered secondary water barrier over the deck.
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It depends on what the tests find. Clearing and screening blocked outlets is a small job; rebuilding a failed tie-in where the lanai meets the house costs more; replacing a build-up that has soaked through costs the most, because it means a new membrane over new insulation.
We price each of those as its own line after the free inspection, with photographs of the drains, the junction and the test squares, so you can see what you are paying for.
Replace it when the test squares show water through the build-up, when it ponds even with clear outlets, or when the membrane is failing at seams across the section rather than at one spot. The cost of a new flat roof follows the area, the insulation and fall needed to drain it, the drains and the metal at the edges.
If the build-up is dry and the fault is at the junction, a repair is the better spend and we will say so. A new lanai roof is usually modified bitumen, which details well against walls; a larger link or carport, TPO welded at the seams over tapered insulation.
Either carries our lifetime workmanship warranty and the manufacturers' product warranties, in writing, and when your insurer asks for a roof certification letter afterwards, we provide one.
On a sound, well-drained deck with intact terminations, sometimes. On a section that ponds, one whose tie-in has failed, or one with water inside the build-up, no, because the coating seals the problem in and the deck keeps rotting under it.
Test squares tell us which case you have, and you see the photographs before you spend anything on either a coating or a new membrane.
As soon as the tests say it is needed, and ideally ahead of storm season, because a flat section with a failed tie-in takes on water fast in wind-driven rain. A new membrane goes down on a dry deck, so we schedule around wet spells and dry the lanai in first if it is leaking now.
Waiting through a wet season on a soaked build-up usually turns a membrane job into a deck repair as well.
Because it is a different roof with a different way of failing. It drains slowly, it depends on outlets that block under trees, and it relies on the junction with the sloped roof to shed water that gravity handles elsewhere.
We test the outlets, open that junction and photograph what is behind it. Most of the time the main roof is fine and the repair is confined to the lanai.
