Roof leak repair in West Boca Raton

There is no salt in West Boca Raton, and that changes what a leak is. On the coast a roofer hunts corroded metal; out here, miles inland in 33496 and 33434, he hunts age. St Andrews Country Club, the Oaks at Boca Raton, Woodfield Hunt Club, Boca Tierra, Seasons, Woodlands, Glades Landing and Glen Oaks were tiled by a few builders in a few bursts, and the felt under those roofs has now spent the same couple of decades in the same hot attics. It cracks at the laps first, then around the pipe boots and vents, and a ceiling stains at a house whose tile looks new from the fairway; within a season or two the neighbors call. The other West Boca leaks are mechanical: a satellite bracket screwed straight through the underlayment, a skylight curb that a pressure-washer has been rough with, a long country-club valley packed with leaves until water backed up under the tile, a flat lanai roof holding a puddle over a seam. None of them shows from the ground, and none of them is under the stain, because water runs along the felt until a nail or a lap lets it drop. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and West Boca is the far southwest corner of that run. A leak visit here is a roofer on the ridge with an awl and a camera working downhill: valleys cleared and probed, boots and vents checked, tile lifted at the laps where the felt looks tired, the flat sections walked, the attic checked from below where a hatch allows. You get the photograph of the hole and an itemized price to close it. Sound roofs are reported sound. One failed lap or boot is repaired and stays repaired. Felt that cracks everywhere we lift tile is shown to you in pictures, and the re-roof conversation that follows starts with what your committee will expect rather than with a pitch. Free roof inspections. After a storm, a battened tarp comes on the first visit and the permanent repair once the deck has dried. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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