What we install

Shingle, metal, tile and flat.

Over twenty-five years building custom homes. We know how important your roof is, and how to get it right.

Residential

Architectural asphalt shingle.

What most Texas homes have, and for good reason. Architectural shingle handles heat and hail better than the flat three-tab it replaced. It comes in enough colors to suit any elevation, and when a section fails you can repair it instead of replacing the whole roof.

A newly shingled hip roof with a neighborhood behind it — Architectural shingle laid over a hip roof. The staggered profile is what gives it the depth a three-tab roof lacks.

Close view of shingles being laid in overlapping courses by hand — Courses go down by hand, overlapped so water never reaches the deck. Most failures start where that overlap was rushed.

Close detail of weathered architectural shingle texture — Granule loss is the first sign a shingle roof is aging, and it shows from the ground long before a leak does.

Metal

Standing seam.

Panels run unbroken from ridge to eave and the fasteners sit hidden under the seam, so there's nothing on the surface for water to find. It costs more up front and lasts far longer. With standing seam the details decide everything. The panels are the easy part.

Aerial view of a light colored standing seam metal roof — A lighter panel reflects more heat, which counts for more in Texas than it does most places.

Aerial view of standing seam panels running the full length of a roof — Unbroken panel runs from ridge to eave. No exposed fasteners means no rubber washers to dry out and crack in ten years.

Residential

Clay and concrete tile.

Tile outlasts almost everything else on this page. Fifty years is ordinary, and a cracked tile can be swapped out without opening up the roof. The catch is what sits underneath. The underlayment usually gives out long before the tile does, so a tile roof can leak while it still looks perfect from the street.

A hip roof covered in dark gray concrete tile at dusk — Concrete tile on a hip roof. The tile itself will outlast the people who laid it. The question is always what sits under it.

Terracotta tiles hung on wood battens with the underlayment visible beneath — Tiles hung on battens over the underlayment. That black layer is the actual waterproofing, and it’s the part that ages first.

Commercial

Flat and low-slope.

On a pitched roof the water runs off by itself. On a flat one it sits, so the seams, the flashing and the drainage decide whether the roof works at all. These roofs reward being looked at twice a year and punish being ignored. We'd rather be on a maintenance schedule with you than meet you after the ceiling comes down.

Aerial view of a large low-slope industrial roof divided into bays — A low-slope roof from above. The falls and the drains decide where the water ends up.

A roll of modified bitumen being heated and bonded down by a roofer — Modified bitumen bonded down at the lap. The seam is the roof. The sheet between the seams is rarely what fails.

Which one

Which suits your house.

Shingle is the right answer for most houses. It costs less, it matches the street, and a good one lasts a long time. Metal earns its price on a roof that's hard to reach, on a low pitch where shingle struggles, or when you want to stop thinking about the roof for thirty years.

Tile is usually decided for you, by the house or by what's already up there. If you have it, the question is rarely whether to keep it. It's almost always what condition the underlayment is in.

Flat isn't really a choice either. It's what the building is, and the work goes into the seams and the drainage.

We fit all of them, so we have no reason to push you toward one over another. What matters is what your roof is actually doing.

Yours next

Let’s take a look at your roof.

Tell us what it’s doing and we’ll come look. You’ll get a written estimate and a straight answer.

Get an Estimate Call (830) 320-5253