Metal roof replacement in Tequesta

Drive Tequesta Drive toward the river and count the standing-seam roofs on the rebuilt houses; the village has taken to metal faster than most of the county, and the reason is the water. Country Club Point, Riverside Oaks and Bayview Terrace sit on the Loxahatchee with salt in the air, the Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony faces the Atlantic at the mouth of the Inlet, and a roof in those places lives or dies by its hidden metal. Under tile, that means galvanized valleys and steel nails rusting to lace. A standing-seam roof built in aluminum on stainless clips has nothing hidden to lose: no fasteners across the field, no underlayment-under-tile wear point, continuous panels that shed a river squall instantly and hold in the wind that comes up the Inlet. It also runs cooler over an attic in August. Inland at Tequesta Pines, Cypress Ridge and Key West Village the case is simpler, replace the roof once, and coated steel serves well where the salt does not reach. The Country Club neighborhoods and the Colony have architectural standards, and some of them still expect tile; we check before we quote so nobody holds a proposal for a roof the committee will refuse. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and Tequesta is the northern end of that run. Where metal is permitted, the job begins under the panels: old roof off, plywood inspected and repaired, a high-temperature self-adhered underlayment rolled over everything, then panels formed to the length of each roof plane and fixed on concealed clips so no screw is exposed across the field to back out or weep. On the river and ocean streets the panels are aluminum, the clips and fasteners stainless, the eave and rake edges hemmed and sealed, and every flashing at a wall, chimney or skylight the same metal as the roof. The Village of Tequesta permits the work and inspects at dry-in and final. Free roof inspections: a roofer measures, photographs the deck, and writes standing seam, 5V, tile and shingle side by side for your own house. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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