Garland's median home was built in 1978, and 73.7% of the city predates 1980. That means most Garland roofs are on their third covering, over decking that has already been through two tear-offs.
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The bulk of Garland's residential market, and what is on most of the housing built between 1955 and 1985. We specify to Garland's adopted 115 mph design wind speed, with the fastener schedule, starter course and ridge and rake detailing that number actually implies.
Class 4 impact-rated products, which many Texas carriers discount. Worth a real conversation in a city that measured 2.25-inch hail in September 2023, and worth checking with your own carrier before you buy rather than after.
Standing seam metal on whole roofs and on accent sections, with the panel, clip and flashing detailing specified rather than assumed. Metal is a long conversation about thermal movement and penetrations, not a material swap.
On a 1970s Garland house the decking, the ventilation balance and the flashing are usually where the real work is. We open it, photograph it, and price each sheet we are calling bad — you get to see why.
Chimney and wall flashing, valley metal, pipe boots, turtle vents, ridge vent and the transitions between roof planes. These are the places roofs actually leak, and the line items a cheap bid quietly reuses instead of replacing.
Gutter and downspout replacement sized to the roof area it is actually draining, because a new roof discharging into an undersized 1970s gutter run is a fascia problem waiting to happen.
Not a satellite measurement and not a drone photo. In a city where 73.7% of the housing predates 1980, the condition of the decking, the ventilation and the flashing is the whole job — and none of it is visible from above or from the street.
You get a number with the assumptions in it: how much decking is included, what happens if we find more, what flashing is being replaced rather than reused, and what ventilation we are specifying. Surprises on a roof are almost always a scoping failure, not a discovery.
At and above $2,000 Garland requires both a permit and a city-registered contractor, and the application will not move without a signed contract or the adjuster's scope of loss attached. We assemble that before we apply, so it never becomes the thing delaying your start date.
Full tear-off to the deck, deck repairs photographed before they disappear, dry-in, then the finished system — with the file handed to you at closeout. It is the only durable proof of what is under your shingles.
The standard for Garland homes: dimensional, UL Class A fire rated, with wind ratings and manufacturer warranties that hold up under the 115 mph figure Garland's code actually adopts.
A tougher mat built to survive steel-ball impact testing. Garland measured 2.25-inch hail in September 2023, and many Texas carriers offer a premium discount for Class 4 — check with yours, because the discount can materially change the maths.
Concealed-fastener standing seam, with panel, clip and flashing detailing engineered rather than assumed. A long-life system whose real cost sits in the detailing at penetrations and transitions, not in the panels.
A written warranty on our installation, separate from the shingle manufacturer's material warranty. Our building on First Street has not moved since 2019, which is what makes a workmanship warranty mean anything.
Manufacturer warranties on qualifying architectural and impact-rated shingles, subject to installation to their published specification — including the ventilation requirements most failed warranty claims actually turn on.
We come back and look at it before your first full storm season is behind you. Sealant, flashing, boots and ridge — the places a roof tells you early whether it was built right.
Don't see your question? Call us at (469) 936-7663 — we're happy to talk it through.
Garland's median build year is 1978 and 73.7% of the city predates 1980, so a 1970s Garland house is typically on its third roof covering. We expect mixed decking with board sheathing in places, several generations of fastener damage, ventilation that no longer meets modern shingle warranty requirements, and flashing that was reused rather than replaced last time. We photograph all of it before it gets covered.
Garland's adopted Table R301.2(1) prints 115 mph ultimate design wind speed, three-second gust, under the 2015 IRC. That figure drives the fastener schedule, the starter course and the ridge and rake detailing. Note it is higher than the 105 mph that some neighbouring cities on the 2024 code now use, so Garland detailing is not interchangeable with theirs.
Often, and it is worth doing the arithmetic rather than taking either answer on faith. Garland measured 2.25-inch hail on 24 September 2023, and Dallas County averages 66 hail days a decade. Many Texas carriers discount premiums for a UL 2218 Class 4 product. Call your carrier, ask what the discount actually is on your policy, and weigh it against the price difference — we will give you both numbers.
Yes at $2,000 and above, which covers effectively every full replacement. At that same threshold the work must be done by a city-registered contractor. The application also requires a signed contract or the insurance adjuster's scope of loss attached — Garland is one of the stricter North Texas cities on this, and it is a consumer protection rather than red tape.
We tear off to the deck and assess it. Where sheathing is rotten, delaminated, cracked or too chewed by old fasteners to hold new ones, it gets replaced — and you see a photograph of every sheet we are calling bad before it is covered. Where it is sound, it stays. Blanket 'the whole deck must be replaced' claims are a sales tactic; so is quietly nailing into sheathing that will not hold.
Usually you cannot tell from the ground, which is the problem. Large hail fractures the fibreglass mat beneath the surface granules — the shingle looks intact, sheds water for another year or two, then fails early in a pattern that no longer clearly traces back to the storm. If your roof was on the house in September 2023 and nobody has been up there since, it is worth an inspection.
We document the damage, meet the adjuster on the roof, and supply the scope — which in Garland also satisfies one of the two documents the city will accept on the permit application. What we will not do is promise you an approval, or inflate a scope so a deductible disappears. That is how homeowners end up on the wrong end of a fraud investigation, and it is not a favour.
Our building is at 601 N 1st Street, in Garland. For a Garland house, emergency tarping is a truck leaving our own yard — measured in minutes rather than in whether a crew is available in another county.
Free inspection, honest scope, real warranty. Most service work scheduled within 24–48 hours.
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