Emergency Roofing in Delray Beach and Palm Beach County

When water is coming through the ceiling, the first job is to stop it, not to sell you anything. Our phone is answered 24 hours a day by a person, not a voicemail. Active leaks and storm damage in Palm Beach County are usually seen the same day, and the first visit ends with the roof tarped or dried in.

We have done this through every hurricane season since 1987 from our shop in Delray Beach. Ron Bell Roofing is a Florida Certified Roofing Contractor, license CCC1336681, fully insured. If you are in town, see emergency roofing in Delray Beach.

What counts as an emergency

Water coming in. A tree or branch through the roof. Shingles, tiles or metal panels gone after wind. A flat roof with standing water at a seam that has opened. A leak over electrical, over a bedroom, or over anything that cannot get wet.

If you are not sure, call. We would rather send someone to a roof that turns out to be fine than have you wait through a night of rain.

What happens when you call

A person answers, day or night. We ask what you are seeing and where the water is. If it is active, we dispatch.

On site we find the source, stop the water with a proper tarp or temporary dry in, and photograph everything with a timestamp. You get a written price for the permanent roof repair before we do it, usually on the same visit. If the damage is storm related, the photos go into a documentation package for your insurance claim.

Storm season

Hurricane season runs June through November and the worst of it for this coast is August through October. Before the season, a Ron Bell roof inspection finds the loose tile, the lifted flashing and the clogged drain that become emergencies at 2 a.m. in a tropical storm.

Our hurricane protection plan includes a pre season inspection and a proactive check after any named storm. After a storm we work a priority list: active leaks first, then exposed decking, then everything else, and we tell you where you are on it.

Insurance

Wind and storm damage is usually covered by a Florida homeowners policy. The claim lives or dies on documentation, and that is where most homeowners lose.

We photograph the damage before we touch it, we photograph the temporary repair, we keep the damaged material when it helps, and we write up what we found in the language adjusters use. We meet the adjuster at the house if you want us there.

What emergency work costs

The permanent repair is priced separately and in writing once we can see the roof in daylight. Most storm repairs fall between $500 and $6,000 depending on what failed and how far the water travelled.

A roof that has lost a section of decking or a large area of tile may be a replacement, and we will tell you that honestly rather than sell you a repair that will not hold.

Where we respond

Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Gulf Stream, Ocean Ridge, Lantana, Lake Worth Beach, Wellington and West Palm Beach, plus the barrier island communities in between. North into Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens, south into Deerfield, Pompano and Fort Lauderdale.

Being based in Delray is the reason the response time means anything. A company dispatching from Broward is an hour away before it leaves the yard, and after a named storm that hour is the difference between a tarp today and a tarp on Thursday. Our trucks park here, our crews live here, and the stock for a dry in is already on them.

One more thing worth knowing before the season starts. A tarp is a temporary measure, not a repair, and it will not survive a second storm. It buys the time to get the permanent work scheduled and the claim moving, which in a bad season can be several weeks. If your tarp has torn, call again rather than wait, because an open roof through a second event turns a repair into a replacement.