What we put on your roof

Architectural asphalt shingles

The default for most Central Texas houses, and the reason is not price alone: they handle heat cycling well, every roofer in the county can repair them, and a carrier scope is written in squares of them. What varies between a cheap job and a good one is almost never the shingle — it is the underlayment, the flashing and the nailing pattern underneath it.

Class 4 impact-rated shingles

Class 4 is the top of a four-step impact scale (UL 2218), tested by dropping a two-inch steel ball. Most Texas carriers discount a premium for a Class 4 roof — the size of the discount is theirs to set and yours to ask about, and no roofer should be quoting you a number for it. Worth it on an exposed roof in a hail corridor; less obviously worth it on a small, sheltered roof.

Standing-seam and R-panel metal

Fifty years rather than twenty, no granules to lose, and it sheds hail rather than bruising. It costs meaningfully more up front, it needs a roofer who details it properly at the penetrations, and it is a different conversation with an HOA. Standing seam hides its fasteners; R-panel does not, and is usually the right answer on a barn or a shop rather than on a street-facing elevation.

TPO and PVC single-ply

The commercial flat-roof workhorses. TPO is the volume choice; PVC is what you want where there are grease exhausts or chemical exposure, because TPO does not love either. Both are welded rather than glued at the seams, which is why a single-ply roof either leaks at a detail or does not leak at all. We install Versico systems.

Underlayment, flashing and ventilation

The parts nobody photographs. Synthetic underlayment across the whole deck, ice-and-water membrane in the valleys and at the eaves, new step and counter flashing, new pipe boots and new drip edge on every job, and intake and exhaust ventilation sized to the attic rather than to whatever was up there before. Re-using old flashing is the single most common reason a new roof leaks in its first year.