Free roof inspection in West Palm Beach

Yes, and free either way. A roofer comes out, walks the roof, lifts tile where he needs to, photographs everything and gives you the pictures with a written report. If the roof needs nothing, the report says so, there is no charge, and nobody returns to change the answer. If it needs a repair, that repair is priced in writing and the decision is yours. We work in 33401, 33405 and 33407 and across Palm Beach County from Jupiter to Boca Raton. Call 561-318-8624, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

A home inspector assesses a whole house and reports the roof from wherever it can be safely seen, which usually means from a ladder at the edge. A roofer walks it and opens it where the answer lives. On a barrel tile roof in Northwood or El Cid that means lifting tile to look at the membrane, which is the layer that decides everything and the layer a look from the edge cannot reach. Both reports are useful. Only one can tell you whether an old roof has years left or months.

Where there is safe access, yes, and on the older houses here it is often the most useful part of the visit. The underside of the sheathing shows staining, daylight at a lifted flashing and the path water has taken, and that path explains why a stain in one room comes from a hole two rooms away. On plank-decked houses the boards also record every previous repair. Where there is no access we say so in the report rather than implying the roof was assessed from both sides.

Yes, and they need it more than the pitched parts do. On a flat section the roofer checks every seam, especially at the edges and where the membrane turns up a wall or a parapet, clears and tests the drains, looks for standing water and for any dishing in the deck, and examines the join where the flat section meets the pitched roof above. Those joins are the most common single leak on the mixed roofs common across West Palm Beach, and they get photographed like everything else.

You get a photograph of it, a plain explanation of what it is and a written price for putting it right. Nothing is done on the day without your say-so. If it is a boot, a run of flashing or a cracked tile, it is a repair and priced as one. If the membrane is brittle everywhere the roofer lifted tile, we tell you that plainly and show you why, so a replacement is a decision you make on your own timing with the evidence in your hand rather than under pressure.