Georgetown permits every re-roof inside the city limits — no dollar threshold, $60 flat — and takes ten to fifteen business days to issue it, with no expediting. Knowing that before the tear-off is scheduled is most of the job.
Georgetown is the fastest-growing kind of roofing market there is — literally. The Census Bureau named it the fastest-growing city in America in 2022, at 14.4% in a single year, and it was still eighth on the national list in 2023. The city has gone from 67,176 people at the 2020 Census to past 100,000. Almost all of that growth is sitting on a roof: 68.7% of Georgetown's 37,206 housing units were built in 2000 or later, and only 9.1% predate 1980.
That matters because a very large share of this city's roofs went on at roughly the same time, which means they come off at roughly the same time. The 9,007 homes built between 2000 and 2009 are sixteen to twenty-five years old now — the back half of an asphalt shingle's service life, and the stretch where hail starts finding the weak ones first.
And Georgetown gets hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logs sized hail in Georgetown in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 — seven consecutive years. The largest measured stones were 2.75 inches on 27 May 2020 and 2.50 inches on 24 September 2023, the second of those part of the same supercell complex that measured four-inch hail on Round Rock.
Where Georgetown differs from most Texas cities is the paperwork. The city moved to the 2021 IRC and 2021 IBC on 1 November 2023. It requires a permit for every re-roof inside the city limits with no dollar threshold to clear first. It registers roofing contractors. It publishes a public list of roofers who let permits expire. And in the Old Town and Downtown overlays it can require a Certificate of Appropriateness before you change materials — which, if it goes to the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, means a public hearing with notice. None of that is hard. All of it is slow if a crew from out of town learns it on your schedule.
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View Free Roof Inspection →Georgetown requires a permit for a new roof or re-roof on residential and commercial property inside the city limits, at a flat $60, with no dollar threshold. Outside the city limits no roof permit is required — and Georgetown's ETJ is large. Which side of that line your address sits on is the first thing we check, not the last.
In spring 2025 we ran a block of re-roofs through the 78626 neighborhoods east and south of downtown — Hugenot, White Steppe Way, Plateau Trail, Crested Butte Way, Harper Lane — every one photographed start to finish. Our crews have been up here, on these streets, in this permit office.
Georgetown publishes a list of currently registered roofing contractors and, beside it, a list of expired permits with the roofer's name attached. Both are public. Look us up on the first one, and look at who is on the second.
Don't see your question? Call us at (469) 936-7663 — we're happy to talk it through.
Inside the city limits, yes, every time. Georgetown's roofing page states that a permit is required for a new roof or re-roof on residential or commercial property within the city limits, and unlike most North Texas cities there is no dollar threshold to clear first. The permit is a flat $60. Outside the city limits a roof permit is not required; for commercial work out there, check with the Fire Marshal.
The city publishes ten to fifteen business days for residential and up to thirty business days for commercial, and it states there is no expedited plan review. It also notes that after a hail storm those times can change. Roof final inspections are requested online, and a request in by 3:00pm can be scheduled for the next business day.
It can. If the property sits in the Old Town or Downtown Overlay and you are changing roofing materials, the city may require a Certificate of Appropriateness. Some are reviewed by the Historic Preservation Officer without a hearing; others go to the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, which does require a public hearing with notice. That is a calendar item measured in weeks, so it needs to be the first question rather than the last.
Georgetown lists three triggers for a full tear-off: the existing roof is water-soaked or deteriorated past the point of serving as a base, the existing covering is wood shake, slate, clay or cement tile, or there are already two or more layers on the deck. That wood-shake clause still catches older Georgetown houses.
Drip edge, yes, at eaves and rake edges on shingle roofs, per section R905.2.8.5 of the 2021 IRC. Ice barrier underlayment, no. The city answers both of those directly on its own roofing page.
No, and Georgetown prints the warning on its own roofing page. Under House Bill 2102 it is illegal for a contractor or roofer to offer to waive a deductible or promise a rebate covering all or part of one, and violators face up to a $2,000 fine and up to six months in jail. Anyone offering is telling you something about how they run their business.
It depends entirely on which neighborhood. Sun City's first phase was adopted under City Ordinance 95-14 and the community association dates to 1996, so the oldest sections are around thirty years old. Later neighborhoods came on in 2002, in 2004 and 2005, across 2006 to 2011, and as late as 2018. One community, a thirty-year spread of roof ages, which is why a blanket answer about Sun City roofs is usually wrong.
Usually, but how much is between you and your carrier. Texas rates impact resistance using UL Standard 2218, Class 1 through Class 4, with a Class 4 roof covering earning the highest credit. Insurers set their own discount, so we will give you the product's UL classification and the installation documentation and you take the number from your insurer. Anyone quoting you a percentage before you have called them is guessing.
Call us at (469) 936-7663, or request your free estimate online — most inspections are scheduled within 24–48 hours.
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