Residential Roofing in Texas: Free Written Inspections

Pick the situation closest to yours. Each one lands on a page that answers it completely, with pricing, process, and the honest trade-offs.

These come up just as often. Start here if one of them is your situation:

Not sure yet? That is what the free inspection is for. You get a written assessment either way, including the times we tell you the roof is fine.

This is the question almost every homeowner starts with, and the honest answer is that it depends on three things: how old the roof is, how much of it is affected, and what shape the decking underneath is in.

A roof with one failure point, a boot that dried out, a valley that was flashed wrong, a few shingles lifted by wind, is usually a repair. A roof where the granules are gone across whole slopes, where the decking has soft spots, or where the same leak keeps coming back in a new place, is usually telling you it is done.

The part most people miss: age alone does not decide it. We have inspected fifteen year old roofs that had another decade in them, and eight year old roofs that failed because of how they were installed. That is why the inspection comes before the recommendation.

Most people start by asking what a roof costs. The better first question is what your house actually needs, because that answer moves the price more than any discount ever will.

→ Full guide to roof repair

→ Full guide to roof replacement

A residential roof in Texas costs about $4.95 to $15.00 per square foot of roof area installed. Architectural shingles run $5.50 to $6.00, standing seam metal $7.60 to $14.50, and tile $10.00 to $15.00.

Read that table carefully, because the units matter. These are per square foot of roof area, not per square foot of living space. Roof area is always larger. The working conversion is your air conditioned square footage times 1.30, then adjusted for pitch. A 2,500 square foot home has roughly 4,000 square feet of roof, so architectural shingles on that house land near $23,000, not $15,000. The roof replacement calculator runs that conversion for your own home and material.

Repairs work differently. They are flat priced jobs, not a rate you multiply. A pipe boot replacement runs $195 to $295. A typical minor leak repair runs $400 to $1,200. Gutters are priced per linear foot rather than per square foot, at $13.00 to $15.50 for six inch seamless aluminum.

→ What a full replacement costs

→ Financing options

There is no single best roof, and any contractor who says otherwise is selling something. The right one depends on how long you plan to stay, what your budget is, and what your house can structurally carry. Here is how the main systems compare.

Hail damage is often invisible from the ground and frequently invisible from the driveway. What it does is bruise the mat under the granules. The shingle looks intact, sheds water for another season or two, then fails early in a way that looks like normal aging.

That gap between when damage happens and when it shows is why documentation matters. A written, dated inspection with photographs establishes what the roof looked like and when. If you carry a replacement-cost (RCV) policy, your out-of-pocket is your deductible plus any upgrades you choose, and the policy addresses the covered loss; an actual-cash-value (ACV) policy also withholds depreciation. If you carry actual cash value, depreciation is applied to the settlement.

We inspect, document, and give you the assessment in writing. What we do not do is tell you whether to file. That decision belongs to you and your carrier.

→ Storm damage and hail

Most roofs give you warning before they leak. Granules collecting at the downspout. Shingles that curl at the corners or lie flat and brittle. A ceiling stain that dried and never got explained. Daylight visible in the attic. Nail heads backing out.

The trouble is that a roof usually fails somewhere other than where the water shows up. Water travels along decking and rafters before it finds drywall, so the stain on your ceiling is rarely under the actual failure point.

An inspection you cannot read is not an inspection. If we look at your roof and find nothing wrong, you get that in writing too.

→ What a roof inspection covers

→ Roof maintenance

Nobody chooses a contractor over attic ventilation. It is still one of the largest factors in how long your shingles last. A hot, unvented attic cooks the roof from underneath, and in a Texas summer that shortens service life measurably. Ridge vents are priced per linear foot and are usually a small line item on a replacement.

Gutters are the other one. They protect the fascia, the foundation, and the landscaping, and they are priced per linear foot rather than per square foot. Undersized gutters on a steep roof will overflow no matter how clean they are. Both sit inside the larger system of decking, underlayment, flashing, and ventilation. The roof components guide walks through your roof layer by layer.

→ Attic ventilation

→ Seamless gutters

A roof is rarely a planned purchase. Most homeowners are choosing between paying out of pocket, running it through an insurance claim, or financing it.

Financing exists for exactly this situation, and the terms depend on your credit and the lender rather than on us. What we can do is give you a written scope and a firm number, so you are not trying to finance a moving target.

→ Roof financing options

ARP is family owned and locally accountable, run by Randal Williams and his son Preston. That is not a marketing line, it is the operating structure: the people whose name is on the company are the people answering for the work.

GAF Certified Plus Contractor. Verified installation training and quality standards, which is what qualifies the manufacturer warranties we write.

Atlas PRO+ Platinum Select Contractor. Atlas's highest contractor designation, covering installation excellence and warranty qualification.

A+ BBB Accredited, with 300+ five star reviews and zero unresolved complaints.

5,000+ projects completed. Under Randal's operational leadership, ARP has delivered more than $24 million in residential and commercial roofing across Texas.

Project management, not just a crew. ARP does not employ its own field installation crews. Work is performed by vetted installation partners we deploy and supervise, and an ARP project manager inspects the work at every stage. The estimate, the documentation, the warranty, and the accountability stay with us.

Compare us against other roofers. That is exactly what our guide to choosing a roofing contractor is for. Hold every bid to the same standard, and ask each one for the credentials, the written scope, and the warranty in writing.

The price bands above are statewide for a reason: the same house costs a different number depending on which part of Texas it sits in. Hail frequency drives whether Class 4 pays for itself. Sustained UV and thermal cycling decide how fast a west facing slope ages. Coastal wind changes how the roof has to be attached before it will pass inspection at all. Permit offices and inspection cadence vary just as much, and so do the HOA rules about what color and profile you are allowed to put up. Those specifics belong to the market, not to a statewide page, which is why ARP runs local teams across San Antonio, Victoria, New Braunfels, the Texas Hill Country, Corpus Christi, Kerrville, and Austin. Start with whichever one you live in and the numbers get specific to your street.

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If you are not sure which of these pages applies to your house, that is normal, and it is the reason the inspection is free. We look at the roof, document what we find with photographs, and give you the written assessment. Then you decide what to do with it, on your timeline.

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