Austin roofing services
Austin roofing services, sorted by what the roof needs
Not every call about a roof is the same job. A lifted shingle, a brown ring on a bedroom ceiling, a yard full of hail-dented metal and an older roof whose granules sit in the gutters all go to different places. Roofing services in Austin sort into three groups, which is how the pages below are laid out, and a roofing contractor doing residential work takes on all of them.
Pick the page that fits the roof
Repairs and leaks
Repairs and leaks cover trouble on part of a roof rather than the whole thing. The three pages below sort by what the trouble looks like from inside the house or the yard.
- Roof repair is for a few lifted or cracked shingles, a loose or lifted flashing, a split pipe boot, or a small spot where the covering has worn thin. It fits when the deck below the trouble is still sound and the rest of the roof is in reasonable shape.
- Roof leak repair is for a stain, a drip or a damp patch in the attic. The page covers how a roofer traces a leak from a ceiling mark back to its source.
- Emergency roof repair is for water coming in now, a limb that fell through the covering, or a stretch of roof opened up by hail or wind. A tarp or temporary cover is a stopgap a roofer sets, not a homeowner job.
Replacement and new roofs
Replacement is for a roof at the end of its wear or past it. A new roof covers a new build or an addition.
- Roof replacement is for a tear-off down to the deck and a new roof system on top. It fits when a repair would need to touch most slopes anyway, or when two existing layers already sit on the deck, or when hail damage spreads across most of a shingle roof.
- Roof installation covers a brand-new roof on an addition, a dormer or a new build, layer by layer from the deck up.
- Metal roofing is for a standing seam, exposed-fastener or stone-coated steel panel roof. The page covers how a metal roof goes on and what a roofer checks on one. The article on metal or shingles sets the two coverings side by side.
Hail, storms and inspections
Storms and inspections are the before-and-after of a weather event.
- Storm damage roof repair is for hail dents, wind-lifted shingles and the damage a hailstorm leaves behind, from lost shingle granules and torn shingles to dented gutters. Hail is the Austin roof story; the page covers what a roofer looks for.
- Roof inspection is the planned look at a roof that isn't leaking or obviously damaged. It fits before buying a house, before putting one up for sale, and after a storm when nothing is visibly wrong but the yard was pelted. The page lists what the look covers from the slopes, from the attic and from inside.
If you are not sure which it is
Say what the roof is doing in plain words. The material and the roof's age help if you know them, but a lot of callers don't, and that is fine. What matters is where you see the trouble (which room, which slope, which wall it is near), what the weather did in the last day or week, and whether this is a house, a rental or a small building of two to four units. Anything that limits access, like a locked gate or a dog in the back yard, is worth saying up front. The article on what moves the price covers the drivers behind a price so the first conversation reads more clearly.
How every job starts
A look at the roof comes first on every job on this site. A roofer walks the slopes, the flashings and the vents and the valleys, with the attic from the hatch when it is reachable. The findings and the price come next, and you decide from there. On a leak, ARMA says the underside of the roof deck can be inspected from the attic to detect leaks, and that where a problem shows, a competent roofer should make an on-roof inspection and any repairs needed.1
A repair is a smaller scope than a replacement, and a replacement is a bigger sequence of work, with the covering's wrapper instructions setting a lot of that sequence. Metal or shingles for an Austin house weighs the two coverings against each other. The about page covers what happens when you call.
Austin housing: who calls
Austin's 483,071 housing units2 break down into 209,772 detached houses,3 24,683 attached single-family homes such as townhouses, 13,363 units in two-unit buildings and 19,901 in buildings of three or four units. The roof on a townhouse, a duplex or a fourplex works a lot like the roof on a house, so these pages cover those buildings too.
Of the 198,180 owner-occupied and 257,933 renter-occupied homes4 in the same count, 36,377 of the rented ones are detached houses5 where a landlord decides on the roof and a tenant may be the one who notices the stain. The callers on these pages are a mix of owners, landlords, property managers and tenants.
Work that belongs to other trades
Residential roofing on houses and small buildings is the whole list above. Other work on a building belongs to other trades.
What we take on and what other trades do
Roofing for houses and small residential buildings is our work; the rest belongs to other trades.
Roofing work we take on
- Repairs, leaks and emergencies
- Hail and storm damage
- Replacement and new roofs
- Metal roofs and inspections
Work for other trades
- Commercial roofs
- Gutters, siding and windows
- Solar panels and any wiring
- Chimney masonry and remodeling
Commercial roofs on warehouses, big-box retail and large apartment buildings use systems and crews that aren't on this site. Gutters, downspouts and gutter guards go with a gutter company. Siding, windows and chimney masonry are their own trades. Solar panels, powered attic fans and anything on a circuit are an electrician's work. Remodeling, additions as construction and tree work are each their own call, and a limb on a roof is a tree trade first.
Sources
- Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA), Residential Asphalt Roofing Manual: Design and Application Methods (2014 edition)
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25001, Austin city (via Census API)
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, Austin city (via Census API)
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, Austin city (via Census API)
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25032, Austin city (via Census API)
After hail, after a leak, or ready for a new roof?
Tell a roofer what the weather did and what the roof looks like now.