Roof leak repair in Tequesta

The most searched roofing question in the Tequesta area is roof repair at the Jupiter Inlet Colony, and it tells you how leaks work at the north end of the county. The Colony sits on the ocean at the mouth of the Inlet; Country Club Point, Riverside Oaks and Bayview Terrace sit on the Loxahatchee River; and on all of them the leak is almost never in the tile or the metal panel you can see. It is in the metal you cannot: galvanized valley liners rusted through, drip edge flaking off in strips, hip and ridge nails weeping brown lines, screws on a 5V roof corroded through their washers, a chimney flashing eaten at the seam. Inland at Tequesta Pines, Cypress Ridge and Key West Village the pattern is the ordinary Florida one, felt under the tile cracking at the laps after decades in an attic, a pipe boot split by the sun, a valley clogged with leaves from the old oaks until water backed up under the roofing. Everywhere in 33469 the stain is a poor guide: water travels along the underlayment or the membrane until a nail or a seam lets it drop, often rooms away. 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 what we do. In Tequesta a roofer walks the roof and, where there is access, the attic; traces the stain uphill; probes the valley and eave metal; lifts tile at the suspect laps; photographs the entry point; and hands you the pictures with an itemized price for exactly that fix. If the roof is sound you hear that. If stainless or copper metal will hold it for years, that is the job. If the felt has failed across the slope, the photographs make the case without a pitch. Free roof inspections. After a storm off the Atlantic or a squall up the river, 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.