Tile roof replacement in West Palm Beach

Sterling Villages of Palm Beach Lakes is a residential community off Village Boulevard in West Palm Beach, and it is the kind of job that shows what a full crew can do. Molsbee crews worked the community's barrel-tile roofs, matching and blending replacement tile into the existing roofscape so repaired sections do not read as patches. That blend-and-match discipline is the whole story of tile in West Palm Beach, because the city has more kinds of tile roof than any other town we work. In the historic districts of El Cid, Flamingo Park, Prospect Park South and Northwood, in 33401 and 33407, the roofs are clay barrel from the twenties and thirties, often on Mediterranean Revival houses the Historic Preservation Board watches closely: a visible change to profile, color or cap treatment needs a certificate of appropriateness before the City of West Palm Beach issues a permit. South of Southern Boulevard in 33405, Southland Park, Broadmoor and Ellamar run from clay barrel near Flagler Drive to concrete S-tile on the postwar blocks toward Dixie Highway. West toward the President Country Club and Village Boulevard, the community roofs are concrete or clay barrel laid in bulk in the same building years, aging in step. Under every one of them the tile is the durable part. The felt beneath it cracks after decades of attic heat, and near the Intracoastal the valley metal, drip edge and fasteners corrode under tile that still looks new. 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 Palm Beach is where more of our calls come from than any other city in the county. A tile re-roof here begins with whatever review the address carries, historic or association, then the city permit, then the roof: old tile stripped and sorted, with sound clay salvaged for hips and ridges on the historic houses; deck walked sheet by sheet and rot cut out; new self-adhered underlayment lapped and rolled; valleys lined in metal, stainless or copper near the water; tile loaded, blended and laid to the county's wind-code attachment; caps bedded and screwed; city inspections at dry-in and final. Free roof inspections: a roofer lifts tile at the suspect laps, photographs the felt and the deck, and hands you an itemized scope with the price. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 561-318-8624.

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