West Palm Beach · Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca RatonWhat a roof replacement costs in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach sends us more roofing calls than any other city in the county, so we have priced more roofs here than anywhere else, and the honest lesson of all that pricing is that the city has no single roof. A nineteen-twenties clay barrel house in El Cid or Prospect Park South on plank sheathing, with chimneys, parapets and a flat porch roof, under the Historic Preservation Board, is one kind of job. A postwar concrete-tile ranch in Broadmoor is another. A Southland Park or Ellamar home on Flagler Drive that takes salt off the Intracoastal is a third, and a community building off Village Boulevard near the President Country Club, roofed in bulk with its neighbors, is a fourth. What they share is the arithmetic. Area and pitch first, and the historic houses are more cut up than they look. Material: shingle at the affordable rung on the postwar blocks, concrete tile in the middle, clay barrel and standing-seam metal at the top, with blended or salvaged clay above single-color clay, and flat sections in membrane priced by their own rules. What comes off and what is under it: one layer or two, and the condition of sheathing that may be plank, with salt-eaten fascia along the water. Complexity: valleys, chimneys, parapets, dormers and porch tie-ins, each of them flashing and labor. Rules: a certificate of appropriateness in the historic districts, an association submittal in the communities, and stainless or copper metal near the Intracoastal. That is the whole list. Molsbee Roofing has been a family business since 1975, based in Lake Worth Beach and working Palm Beach County, Jupiter to Boca Raton, and even in our busiest city we do not price a roof from an aerial photograph. A roofer measures from the roof, checks the attic and the sheathing, photographs what is there, and you receive an itemized scope for tile, metal and shingle side by side, permitted through the City of West Palm Beach. Financing options are explained at the inspection if you ask. Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.
Free roof inspections. Open 24 hours, Monday to Sunday.
