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Every city in the northeast metroplex has its own housing stock and its own roof problem. Pick yours and we will tell you what we actually see on roofs there.
Cities with their own page
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Roofing in Plano, TX
Plano's housing stock came up in two big waves, and both of them are now sitting on roofs at or past the end of their service life.
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Roofing in Garland, TX
We are based in Garland, on Cavalier Drive.
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Roofing in Richardson, TX
Richardson's mature tree canopy is the best thing about the older neighborhoods and the hardest thing about the roofs underneath them.
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Roofing in Allen, TX
Allen grew up almost entirely in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Roofing in Frisco, TX
Frisco has the newest housing stock in the metroplex, which is exactly why damage goes unreported here.
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Roofing in McKinney, TX
McKinney is really two roofing markets in one city: century-old homes around the downtown square that need genuine restoration work, and vast 2000s subdivisions where whole streets are aging out together.
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Roofing in Rowlett, TX
Rowlett has two roof populations that need different eyes: the homes rebuilt after December 2015, now reaching their first replacement window, and everything around Lake Ray Hubbard taking wind off open water.
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Roofing in Mesquite, TX
Mesquite is one of the older suburbs in the metroplex, and it shows on the roofs: modest houses, shallow pitches, and a lot of three-tab shingle that should have been replaced two storms ago.
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Roofing in Wylie, TX
Wylie went from a small town to a city of more than 60,000 in about two decades, and the roofs tell that story: a huge block of production housing all reaching the same age at once, alongside much older homes on acreage.
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Roofing in Rockwall, TX
Rockwall sits on the east shore of Lake Ray Hubbard with larger, more custom homes than most of the metroplex — bigger roofs, more complicated roof lines, and wind arriving straight off open water.
Why Dallas–Fort Worth is hard on roofs
Two things decide how long a roof lasts here, and neither of them is the number printed on the shingle wrapper.
Heat. Asphalt shingle ages by losing volatiles, and a dark roof deck through a North Texas August runs far above air temperature day after day. That thermal cycling is what drives the granule loss and brittleness that eventually ends the roof — which is why a shingle rated for thirty years commonly reaches its practical end here somewhere between eighteen and twenty-five.
Hail. Most roofs in this region do not die of old age. They get finished off by a storm while already weakened, and every impact that bruises the mat takes time off the clock even when nothing visibly fails. The metroplex sits in the corridor where warm Gulf air meets dry air off the plains, and the season runs hardest from March through June.
One metro, several completely different roofing markets
People talk about DFW as a single market and it is not, at least not on roofs. The northeast metroplex went up in distinct waves, and each wave left behind a different problem.
The 1960s and 1970s stock in Garland and Richardson is on its second or third roof, often still running three-tab shingle over plank decking, under attic ventilation designed before anyone understood what it was for. The 1980s–2000s wave in Plano and Allen is hitting end-of-life all at once, on steeper and far more complex roof lines. And the newest stock in Frisco and much of McKinney is production-built on entry-tier architectural shingle, where the failures are usually installation details rather than materials.
A crew that only works one of those has learned the wrong habits for the other two. That is the whole reason we match the contractor to the property rather than sending whoever is closest.
What to do after a storm
In order, and none of it costs anything:
- Walk the perimeter and check the soft surfaces — gutters, downspouts, the air conditioner fins, window screens, the garage door. Hail records itself there far more legibly than on shingle.
- Look for granules collecting at the base of the downspout.
- Get the roof inspected and photographed. Do not climb up yourself.
- Check your declarations page for your wind-and-hail deductible — in Texas it is usually a percentage of your dwelling limit, not a flat sum.
- Decide whether to file, with the photo report in hand rather than a guess.
Our guides cover what hail damage actually looks like and when a Texas policy pays for a replacement in more detail.
Straight to the point
- Hail season peaks March through June
- Damage is usually invisible from the ground
- Your hail deductible is probably a percentage
- Spring damage is often still claimable later
- The inspection and the report cost you nothing
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Cities without their own page yet
We serve these too — call or submit a request and we will match you with a contractor who works the area.