Emergency roof repair in Palm Beach County.
Luxe Builder Group handles leak diagnosis, storm tarping, and flat and metal roof repair.
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Water coming in right now.
We stabilize the roof before we repair it. If the weather has not cleared, that means a tarp or a temporary patch first. The permanent fix follows on its own permit and paperwork. In South Florida humidity, mold can start in wet building material within 24 to 48 hours.
Stay off the roof
After a storm, leave a wet roof to a crew working in daylight with fall protection.
Control the water
Move what matters out of the drip zone and set a container under it. If a ceiling is bulging, relieve it with a small hole at the low point so the water drains where you choose instead of where the drywall gives.
Photograph it
Take photos of the ceiling and the water inside, then whatever roof damage you can see from the ground, before anything gets moved or covered. Those photos help us plan the repair and stay in your records.
Call Luxe
We answer the phones weekdays 7 to 7 at (561) 941-1799. An active leak moves to the front of the schedule.
What we actually fix.
Leak repair
The stain is rarely below the hole.
Water enters at a failed detail, travels along the waterproof layer or a truss, and drops at the first seam it finds, often nowhere near the entry point. We trace the path from both sides, on the roof and in the attic, and verify the entry before repairing anything. The common failure points in this county: pipe-boot collars cracked by sun years before the roof itself is done, flashing that got caulk instead of replacement, failed skylight flashing and aged perimeter seals that leak only in wind-driven rain, wind-creased shingles, and gutters backing water under the first course. When the skylight unit has failed rather than the seal around it, we handle skylight replacement as part of the roof work. The fix replaces the failed component, photographed before and after, because sealant smeared over a symptom fails on the next wind-driven rain.
Storm tarping
Over the ridge, screwed to the deck.
A tarp that holds runs from above the ridge down past the damage, so water sheds over it, and gets anchored with wood strips screwed into the decking rather than nailed through shingles. Set that way it rides out the gusts that follow a storm. Florida sun is hard on tarp material, so figure roughly 30 to 90 days of protection and treat that window as the deadline for the permanent repair. On a condo building, or across the several roofs of an HOA community, we secure occupied units first and work through the rest of the property on a written plan. We use neutral-colored tarps for associations that want them during the recovery. For our other work on those properties, see the condo and HOA roofing page.
Flat and low-slope
Leaks start at the details.
On TPO, PVC, modified bitumen, and built-up roofs, failures concentrate at drains, penetrations, equipment curbs, and flashing terminations, almost never in the open field of the membrane. Roof surfaces here run past 140 degrees in summer sun, and that daily expansion cycle works every seam. Repair means patching and re-welding the failed detail, then correcting what caused it: cleared drains and scuppers, tapered insulation where water ponds. The commercial roof repair page covers business properties.
Metal repair
Fastener fatigue comes first.
Daily heat cycling backs screws out and wears their neoprene washers long before the panels are done. We replace fasteners and washers, reseal seams, and match flashing work to the profile on the roof. On a sound metal roof, that kind of restoration can put off replacement by 10 to 20 years.
Waterproofing
A membrane over a sound, dry deck.
A liquid-applied coating system can reset an aging flat roof for 15 to 25 years of service, and heat-welded TPO or PVC runs 20 to 30. What sits underneath decides whether either lasts: adhesion testing and a moisture survey come first, because a coating over wet insulation traps the water and blisters the system. When the tests fail, we price the tear-off instead.
Repair it, or replace it.
One leak on a roof with years left in it is a repair. When leaks show up in different spots, or the roof is at the end of its Florida service life, the problem is a pattern, and patching a pattern buys months rather than years. In this sun and salt air, a shingle roof commonly lasts 15 to 20 years, a tile roof 25 to 50 depending on the waterproof layer beneath it, and a metal roof 40 to 60.
Our inspection, documented in photographs, settles whether the roof needs a repair or a replacement. The roof replacement page covers the bigger job, the cost page covers what drives the price, and the financing page covers how owners pay for that job, including Florida PACE for qualifying scopes.
On the record with the county.
In Palm Beach County, a repair to the roof deck or the structure, or any job over 25% of the roof surface, needs a building permit before work starts. We file where the code requires it, and we stay with the job until the building department signs off.
Where the tear-back finds saturated decking, the section gets new deck material fastened to the wind-uplift standard the code sets for coastal Palm Beach County, and a stick-down secondary water barrier goes down before the surface goes back on. You keep the record: the photo file and the closed permit, the two things a future buyer's inspector will ask about.
Luxe Builder Group repairs roofs in Tequesta, Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach, Wellington, Hobe Sound and Delray Beach.