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Roof maintenance in West Palm Beach
Every roof has perishable parts and permanent ones, and almost nothing here fails in that order. The membrane under barrel tile is built to last decades.
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West Palm Beach · Roof maintenance
Roofing in West Palm Beach since 1975.
Every roof has perishable parts and permanent ones, and almost nothing here fails in that order. The membrane under barrel tile is built to last decades.
The rubber around a plumbing vent is not. The mortar holding a ridge cap is not.
The sealant closing the top of a chimney flashing is not. Those three items are a small share of the cost of a roof and they cause the large majority of the leaks we are called to in El Cid, Northwood, Prospect Park South and the streets around them, where the perishable parts have been up there longer than in any other town we serve.
Maintenance is simply the practice of renewing them on purpose instead of after a ceiling has told you to. A visit looks like this.
The roofer works the field of tile, resets any piece sitting low and refastens what has come loose. He re-beds ridge and hip caps where the mortar has opened.
He pulls and replaces vent boots whose rubber has gone stiff. He cuts back and renews cracked sealant where flashings meet walls, chimneys and skylights.
He clears the valleys and any drain serving a carport or porch section, so rainfall goes where the roof intends. Nothing is guessed at: what he touches is photographed, and you keep the photographs, which means the following year begins from a documented condition rather than an opinion.
One thing we will not do is wash your roof under pressure. That is covered below and it matters.
It is also the cheapest hour anyone spends on a roof. The parts named above are inexpensive, the labour is short, and the alternative is a ceiling, an attic and a stretch of decking.
We are Molsbee Roofing, family-run since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working across Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, licensed CCC1327429. We maintain roofs in 33401, 33405 and 33407.
Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.
- Freeroof inspection with photos
- Writtenprice before any work
- Lifetimeworkmanship warranty
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Roofing in West Palm Beach
Replacement, repair and every roof type, for this town.
Commercial roofing
Flat, TPO, tile and metal for plazas, condos and offices.
Flat roof repair and replacement
TPO, modified bitumen and coatings for flat sections, lanais and buildings.
Metal roof replacement
Standing seam and metal panels rated for the wind off the water.
Roof inspection
A free inspection with photos and a written report of what we found.
Roof leak repair
Leaks found, photographed and fixed with matching material.
Roof replacement cost
What moves the price of a full roof here, in plain terms.
Shingle roof replacement
Architectural shingle rated for coastal wind, with the underlayment done right.
Storm damage roof repair
Wind-lifted tile and shingle, tarping and honest timing after a storm.
Tile roof replacement
Concrete, clay and barrel tile, with the underlayment that decides how long it lasts.
Good to know
What to know.
- Mortar under a barrel cap is the oldest thing up there
Ridges and hips on the older houses in this city are finished with caps set into mortar, and mortar has a shorter life than anything it holds. Once it crumbles the cap is loose, and a loose cap along an exposed ridge gives a gust something to pull on. Re-bedding is quick and cheap while it is one or two caps. It becomes a proper repair once a run has travelled. This is the item we check first on any barrel tile roof in the historic streets.
- Vent boots: small rubber, large consequences
Every bathroom and kitchen stack comes through the roof inside a collar, and that collar is rubber. Sun hardens it, then it cracks at the exact point where the pipe meets it, and water runs straight down the outside of the pipe into the ceiling below. From the ground nothing looks wrong. Boots are inexpensive parts, they are quick to change, and replacing them on a schedule rather than after a stain is the highest-return thing on this entire page.
- Give the water somewhere to go
Rainfall on a West Palm Beach roof is concentrated by design: two slopes feed one valley, and a carport or porch deck feeds one outlet. Both of those are collection points, so both fill with whatever the trees drop. A choked valley holds water against metal until the metal thins. A choked outlet turns a low-slope deck into a pond. Clearing them takes minutes, needs doing more than once a year under trees, and heads off a whole category of expensive failure.
- No pressure washing, and here is why
Blasting a roof with high-pressure water is sold as care and behaves like damage. The stream travels up under tile laps and soaks the membrane the tile is there to shield, it strips the face off older concrete, and it lifts cap mortar that was holding perfectly well. You get a roof that photographs beautifully and leaks by the next rainy spell. If how the roof looks is bothering you, tell the roofer at the inspection and he will explain which gentler options are safe on your particular tile.
How it works.
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Free roof inspection
We photograph what we find and hand you a written, line-item estimate.
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Written price
You see the price before anyone starts. No surprises on the invoice.
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Permit and install
We pull the permit, do the work and clean up every day.
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Inspection and warranty
County inspection passed, warranties registered, final walk with you.
Why Molsbee
Why Molsbee Roofing.
- Lifetime Workmanship Warranty
We stand behind the install for as long as you own the home.
- Florida licensed CCC1327429
Fully insured, every job permitted and inspected.
- 4.8 stars, 200+ Google reviews
Reputation built one Palm Beach County roof at a time.
- Family-owned since 1975
Three generations of Palm Beach County roofing.
Neighborhoods
West Palm Beach neighborhoods.
Where we work in and around town.
dozens of roofs in West Palm Beach since March 2026
A maintenance visit is priced as a short visit, well below the repair that follows a leak. Resetting tile, re-sealing caps and replacing boots cost a fraction of the ceiling they save.
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Roofing questions
Frequently asked questions.
What does roof maintenance include in West Palm Beach?
Resetting and refastening slipped tile, re-bedding ridge and hip caps where the mortar has gone, swapping out vent boots whose rubber has stiffened, renewing cracked sealant at wall, chimney and skylight flashings, and clearing valleys and any carport or porch outlet. Everything touched is photographed, so you finish the visit holding a record of the roof rather than a verbal summary. We do this across 33401, 33405 and 33407. Call 561-318-8624, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How often does an older tile roof here need attention?
Annually once a roof is past its middle years, every second year while it is younger, and additionally after any hard blow. The reason is that the parts which perish are rubber and mortar, and both age by exposure rather than by use. Streets built in one go, which describes much of Southland Park and long stretches of Northwood, tend to arrive at the same faults within a season or two of each other, so a neighbour replacing boots is a fair signal to have yours looked over.
Does keeping up with maintenance postpone a replacement?
Not by itself, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. The membrane beneath the tile ages on a clock nobody can wind back, and when it goes the roof goes. What upkeep prevents is the other ending, where a sound roof is written off years early because one cap, one boot or one blocked valley was ignored long enough to rot a deck. Think of it as collecting the full term the roof was always good for, at a cost far below the ceiling repair it avoids.
Will you service the low-slope deck over my carport?
Yes, and on the post-war houses around Broadmoor and Ellamar that deck usually deserves more attention than the pitched roof beside it. The outlet is cleared and tested, every seam is examined, the upstand where the membrane runs up against a wall or parapet is checked, and the point where the low deck meets the pitched roof is inspected closely, since that meeting is the busiest joint on the building. Findings are photographed and priced before any work is agreed.
Do you look after multi-unit and small commercial roofs?
We do. Around 33401 and 33407 there are a great many small commercial and multi-unit buildings, and for those we work the roof in mapped sections, photograph each one, and hand back a report that divides urgent items from things that can wait for next year's budget. Owners and managers can act on that document, and because the sections are mapped, the following visit measures change instead of starting the assessment over from nothing.
