A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers across Palm Beach County. What follows starts with the question this county asks before any other: whether the roof is yours to replace at all.
- 1 The ridge. The highest, hottest course, and where a shared roof usually begins and ends.
- 2 The field. Tile or shingle above, and the underlayment that actually keeps water out below.
- 3 The valley. One channel carrying what two slopes shed, and where debris settles between rains.
- 4 Wall flashing. Where an addition or an enclosure meets the house, and where neither trade owns the seam.
- 5 Penetrations. Collars, curbs and skylights: holes cut on purpose, then sealed. They open first.
- 6 Eaves and metal. Drip edge and fasteners. Near the water they end the roof; twelve miles west they do not.
A roof rarely fails where you look
The covering gets the attention; the junctions, the hardware and the layer beneath it do most of the failing. On a tile roof that is literal, since the tile can look untouched for decades while the underlayment reaches the end of its life. The first useful question here is not what is on top, but what is under it and what it runs into.
- Whose roof is itWho actually owns the roof
- Salt, mile by mileTwenty miles from salt to none
- Rules that pick for youWhen the community picks the tile
- Phased replacementWhen the whole community is re-roofed in phases
- Two eras meetingWhere an addition meets the original roof
- Holes in the roofEvery hole in the roof
The work
Nine markets, ocean to the Everglades
From the historic blocks of West Palm Beach to the gated tile of Palm Beach Gardens and the far inland lots of Wellington: nine markets under the same sun, but not in the same air. The county crosses from the Atlantic to the edge of the Everglades in about twenty miles, and the same roof does not age the same way at each end.