The City of Conroe's own FAQ says a straight re-roof does not require a permit — provided the structural sheathing and roof rafters do not need replacing. The same FAQ then says something a roofing company ought to repeat rather than hide: be leery of the contractor that tells you he does not need any permits or tells you he has permits but cannot produce them for you. In Conroe both things are true at once, and the second one is why it matters who you hire.
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Conroe states that a re-roof needs no permit provided structural sheathing and roof rafters do not need replacing. The moment a tear-off exposes rotten decking or a cracked rafter that has to come out, the job becomes permit-required. We tell you that before we start, and we pull the permit when the deck makes us.
Everything off, decking inspected, bad sheathing replaced and counted on the invoice. On a 2004 Conroe roof the deck is usually sound — but usually is not something we are willing to warrant, and the answer changes what permit the job needs.
Conroe registers only electrical, irrigation, mechanical and plumbing contractors. Roofers register with nobody and, on an exempt re-roof, the city never sees the contractor, their insurance or the work. We bring our own insurance certificate, a written scope and a photographic record, because in Conroe those are the only checks that exist.
Self-adhering membrane at valleys and every penetration, synthetic underlayment across the field, all new metal rather than sealant over old metal, and ventilation calculated rather than inherited. On a builder roof from the 2000s boom, ventilation was almost certainly estimated.
8,434 homes built between 2000 and 2009 are in their first replacement window right now. 13,489 built in the 2010s are seven to sixteen years old and are not — those are repair, storm-claim and warranty jobs for another decade. We tell you which group you are in rather than pitching the same thing to everyone.
Conroe expressly excludes construction debris from city collection, so a tear-off needs a contractor-supplied container. Beds, AC units and drives covered before the first shingle moves, and two magnet sweeps at the end.
Squares, pitch, penetration count, visible deck condition and the ventilation the roof actually has. A written number for the roof in front of us, not a per-square figure from a satellite image.
If your house is from the 2010s — nearly a third of Conroe is — the odds are that you do not, and we will say so. If it is from the 2000s cohort or the pre-1990 core, the conversation is different. Either way we show you the photographs.
On a straight covering replacement, the city's published position is that no permit is required. If the deck or a rafter has to be replaced, that changes and we pull one. We put our position in writing before the job so there is no ambiguity later.
Tear-off and dry-in the same day. Then decking, underlayment, metal, field, ridge, and a walk-through with you — plus the photographic record, which on an exempt job is the only inspection anyone will ever perform.
Laminated asphalt covers nearly every roof here. On a 2005 builder roof the upgrade that matters is the assembly — a full starter course at eave and rake, matching hip-and-ridge, edge metal, and ventilation calculated rather than inherited.
Montgomery County has never recorded a hailstone over 1.75 inches in eleven years and runs about a third of Harris County's hail-day rate. So the honest case for Class 4 here is the insurance discount and the wind performance, not a dramatic hail history. We will quote it both ways and let the arithmetic decide.
Metal changes the arithmetic for an owner planning to stay twenty-five years and solves the low-slope porch runs and additions that keep failing in asphalt. It costs more up front and shows a poor detail immediately, so the flashing work has to be right.
Five years on our labor for a full replacement, written and specific about what it covers, handed over at the end of the job rather than promised on a doorstep.
Install a complete manufacturer system — starter, field, ridge and underlayment from one line — and the manufacturer's system warranty applies in your name, with the registration and documentation handed to you.
Open-deck photographs, the sheathing replacement count, the products installed and the written scope. On a permit-exempt re-roof, this file is the only evidence the work was done right.
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That is the city's own published position, with a condition attached. Conroe's Building Permits FAQ states that re-roofing a house does not require a permit providing the structural sheathing and/or roof rafters do not need replaced. The condition is the whole thing: the moment a tear-off exposes rotten decking or a cracked rafter that must come out, the job becomes permit-required. One honest caveat from us — that is a published FAQ answer rather than an ordinance section, so for anything borderline we confirm with permits@cityofconroe.org.
Nobody. That is the uncomfortable part, and Conroe's own FAQ acknowledges the risk when it warns homeowners to be leery of a contractor who says he does not need permits or cannot produce them. Conroe registers only electrical, irrigation, mechanical and plumbing contractors — roofers register with no one. So on an exempt re-roof the city never sees the contractor, their insurance, or the finished roof. Your protection is your own diligence, which is why we hand you a written scope and photographs of the deck before it was covered.
Four things. Can they produce a current certificate of liability insurance today, not next week. How long have they traded under this name at this address. Who is the crew lead and will they be on site. And what documentation will you be holding when they leave — specifically, photographs of the open deck. In a city that does not permit or inspect a straight re-roof, that fourth question is the only substitute for an inspection there is.
It depends which Conroe you are in, and the split is sharp. 8,434 homes were built between 2000 and 2009 — nineteen percent of the city, now seventeen to twenty-six years old and squarely inside the first replacement window. But the peak decade is the 2010s at 13,489 homes, and those roofs are seven to sixteen years old and are not replacement candidates on age. Copy that tells everyone in Conroe their roof is probably due is wrong for about a third of the city, and we will not write it.
Much less than Houston, and this is worth getting right. Montgomery County recorded 18 distinct hail days across 2015 to 2025 — about 1.6 a year, roughly a third of Harris County's rate — and has never recorded a stone larger than 1.75 inches in that period. April is the peak month, with April and May together accounting for 72% of reports. There is one NCEI narrative naming a Conroe landmark: quarter-size hail near I-45 and Highway 105 and at Conroe High School on 24 March 2017.
Yes. Montgomery County logged 38 thunderstorm-wind days over the same eleven years against 18 hail days, and the seasonality is different from the hail season — May peaks, but January produces more wind reports than June and there is an October bump too. On 26 May 2025 broadcast media reported damage to a Conroe restaurant after a line of thunderstorms, with photos showing partial roof loss. Wind is a year-round concern here in a way hail is not.
Conroe's codified ordinance adopts the 2009 International Residential Code, amended by Ordinance No. 2106-12 in November 2012, while the city's published material elsewhere refers to 2012 editions. We report both rather than pick, and confirm with the Permit Office when it matters. Either way this is the oldest adopted code in the area — Tomball runs the 2021 editions and Sugar Land the 2024 — which is worth knowing when comparing quotes written for different cities.
No. Conroe expressly excludes construction debris from city collection, so a tear-off needs a contractor-supplied container and a private disposal route. We arrange both, cover beds and AC units before the first shingle moves, and run two magnet sweeps of the drive, yard and street at the end.
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