Roofers in Westchase, Houston TX

Seventies and eighties housing around the district, and the roofs that came with it.

Westchase runs along the Beltway between Westheimer and Richmond, a large business district surrounded by residential neighbourhoods built mostly through the 1970s and 1980s. It is inside Houston city limits.

Housing of that era in Houston shares a set of characteristics, and they show up on the roof. Sheet decking rather than plank, moderately complex rooflines with multiple gables, attached garages tied into the main roof, and ventilation that was designed to a standard we now know was not enough for this climate.

What is different about a Westchase roof

Roofs of the same generation

Most of this housing went up within a fairly narrow window, which means the neighbourhood's roofs move through their life together. If yours is original and has been replaced once, you are likely due again. If it has been replaced twice, the decking underneath has been exposed twice and is worth looking at properly.

Garage and addition tie-ins

Houses of this era very commonly have an attached garage with a roof that ties into the main roof at a valley or against a wall, and later additions doing the same. Those junctions are the most common leak on this housing stock, and they are frequently sealed rather than properly flashed.

Ventilation designed for a different era

The intake and exhaust on a 1970s Houston attic was typically a few box vents and whatever soffit venting came as standard, and it has usually since been made worse by added insulation blocking the eaves. The result is an attic running far hotter than it should and shingles ageing from both sides. Fixing it is one of the cheapest genuinely useful things you can do.

Multi-family and townhome stock

A good deal of the housing around the district is townhomes and attached units, which brings low-slope sections, shared walls and the question of where your responsibility ends. Establish that before work starts.

Access

Generally good. Most of this housing has drives and setbacks that let a crew work efficiently, which keeps labour down and shows up on a Cost Plus quote as a lower number rather than as a margin somebody kept.

Who issues the permit here

Your roof permit is filed with the City of Houston, not with Harris County. That matters because Houston is its own incorporated city with its own building department, its own fee schedule and its own inspection, and a contractor who assumes county rules gets it wrong.

We pull it under our own name wherever one is required, and it is passed through at its actual cost with the receipt attached. A contractor asking you to pull your own permit is asking you to carry the liability for their work.

What we do here

Roofing is most of it, and the exterior work exists because the same rain that gets through a failed roof detail rots the boards next to it.

All twenty one services.

What it costs

Every job is priced Cost Plus. You see the supplier invoice for the materials, the crew hours at our published rate, the permit and disposal at what they actually cost, and one service fee of 20 to 30 percent set by job complexity and locked before anything starts. No second number, no change order conversation afterwards. The full breakdown.

Our workmanship warranty is ten years, written into the contract. What that covers, and what it does not.

Common Questions

My house is from the late seventies. How many roofs should it have had?

Typically two or three by now in this climate. If the current roof is the original, it is well past its expected life and worth inspecting rather than waiting for a leak.

The leak is where the garage roof meets the house. Is that common?

Very common on this housing stock. That junction is usually a valley or a wall intersection, and it is frequently sealed rather than flashed. Sealant fails and the leak returns.

Why is my attic so hot?

Ventilation designed to an older standard, usually made worse by added insulation blocking the soffit intake. It is inexpensive to correct and it extends the life of the roof above it.

I own a townhome. Whose roof is it?

That depends on your deed and association documents. It is worth establishing before work starts, because on attached units the boundary is rarely where owners assume.

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